INDIANAPOLIS — What Rick Barnes, Josiah-Jordan James and Zakai Zeigler said on Friday, ahead of No. 3-seed Tennessee (27-7) facing No. 11-seed Michigan (18-14) in ...

Barnes has long been a supporter of exhibition games played in front of a crowd. This is a different experience for Tennessee, which typically has home exhibitions but played a neutral-site game ...

Rick Barnes has had his teams scrimmage Davidson for as long as he can remember. But the Tennessee basketball coach decided it was time to mix it up. Enter Michigan State and Gonzaga. “We are ...

Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes also happen to be close friends who have had time to reconnect in the Queen City, where both teams are seeking to advance to the NCAA ...

Rick Barnes, Kelvin Sampson met ... Sampson latched on with Jud Heathcote as a graduate assistant at Michigan State in 1979. Barnes coached at a high school for a year before leaping to Davidson.

The Volunteers are led by Sampson’ longtime friend, the 70-year-old Rick Barnes. Seventy-year-old Michigan State coach Tom Izzo also will be chasing a Final Four spot Sunday when his second ...

Tennessee basketball coach Rick Barnes remembers vividly the day he met Tom Izzo. They were in Columbus, Ohio, recruiting a local guard named Eli Brewster in 1986, both of them young assistant ...

Rick Barnes has become one of the top coaches in college basketball during the regular season. ... (Loyola Chicago in 2018, Oregon State in 2021 and Michigan in 2022) ...

Rick Barnes was tired when he and his Tennessee men’s basketball team finally got home from Orlando at 1 a.m. Sunday after beating Duke the day before to advance to the Sweet 16. Even so, he got ...

Despite the “Rick Barnes in March” laments, ... Michigan State, Gonzaga, Purdue and Houston. GO DEEPER. Men's college basketball rankings: Tennessee, Oklahoma and Clemson are on the way up.