Rick Barnes' mind was already working as the CBS Selection show showed the bottom half of the Midwest Regional. It featured a Charlotte opening-weekend pod at the bottom with a No. 2 seed ...

RICK BARNES: I don’t know ... ZAKAI ZEIGLER: For Coach Barnes (smiling)? Coach Barnes just kept on talking to me for some ...

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes met with the media following ... I think they're sequestered somewhere (smiling). I think we let our body of work speak for it. Again, I look at our league.

INDIANAPOLIS — Kelvin Sampson has come to expect the late-night phone calls from Rick Barnes. The Houston coach can’t begin to predict Barnes’ reason for calling after decades of picking ...

Rick Barnes crashed out of yet another NCAA men’s tournament on Thursday night. For those keeping track, he has yet to get out of the Sweet 16 in eight seasons at Tennessee. It's been 15 years ...

INDIANAPOLIS — As his players did most of the talking, crowing about the merits of “Tennessee basketball,” Rick Barnes mainly just sat there. In quiet reflection, Barnes, the Volunteers ...

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 ...

Rick Barnes slanderers and apparently even the oddsmakers. Seconds after Vescovi popped in on press row, the other senior guard who leads this team, Josiah-Jordan James, dropped in a 3-pointer ...

Picking a Rick Barnes-coached team to flop out of March Madness earlier than expected is like predicting a sellout for the Super Bowl or a rain delay at Wimbledon. It happens practically every ...