Vols coach talked with UCLA before they hired Mick Cronin. Now, Barnes says, there’s no question they hired the right guy.

Rick Barnes was a leading candidate to be the UCLA coach during the Bruins' 2019 coaching search. He remained with Tennessee ...

The Tennessee Volunteers are back in the Sweet 16 this March. It’s a third season in a row getting this deep under head coach ...

Last season, the Vols competed in the Elite Eight, facing off against Purdue in a battle for the ages, featuring two of the ...

No. 2 seed Tennessee (29-7) will compete in its third consecutive Sweet 16. The Vols advanced to the 2025 NCAA Tournament ...

Rick Barnes and the Tennessee basketball team are preparing for a March Madness showdown with Wofford and viral center Kyler ...

Rick Barnes hasn’t made a Final Four since 2003. Could this year’s Tennessee team be the one to take him back?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Rick Barnes doesn’t recall the finer points of the UCLA coaching search in April 2019. The Tennessee basketball coach mainly recollects his response in the middle of a career ...

But Rick Barnes, then as now Tennessee’s coach, was also mentioned as a candidate, and the job did hold some appeal for a guy who had spent much of his coaching career at Clemson, Texas and ...

It’s been more than 20 years since Rick Barnes made his lone Final Four appearance as a head coach. Last season, Barnes oversaw an Elite Eight run with the Tennessee Volunteers, but he and the ...