The Southeastern Conference has revealed the home and away matchups for the upcoming Tennessee men’s and women’s basketball season.

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exiting guard Zakai Zeigler moved toward Vols coach Rick Barnes, who pulled Zeigler close. For nearly 10 seconds, they embraced on stage, a 70-year-old coach from North Carolina and an ...

Rick Barnes has a 0-1 record in his Final Four career ... He helped top-seeded Texas beat UNC Asheville, Purdue, UConn and Michigan State in the South Regional bracket of the 2003 NCAA Tournament ...

“His style is solid,” Sampson said of Barnes. “There’s not one aspect of the game that Rick’s team is not always prepared for.” Both coaches, originally from North Carolina, share a ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Rick Barnes and Kelvin Sampson are such old friends that they played against each other in college in North Carolina nearly 50 years ago, back when Barnes had long, flowing hair.

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, Kelvin Sampson met as North Carolina college players in the 1970s Sampson and Barnes grew up in North Carolina — Sampson in Laurinburg by the South Carolina border and Barnes in the ...

Rick Barnes has a question ... Tennessee stands between UH and San Antonio They grew up 165 miles apart in North Carolina. Barnes, known as “Little Ricky from Hickory” who “used to ...

INDIANAPOLIS − Rick Barnes says he plans on being the Tennessee ... breaking through to the Elite Eight in 2024. The Hickory, North Carolina, native reached the Final Four in 2003 with Texas.

Rick Barnes should be in the Naismith Basketball ... and Roy Williams, Kansas, North Carolina (30) — have more NCAA trips than Barnes. All three have been in the Hoops Hall since 2007.

But Rick Barnes, then as now Tennessee’s coach ... The other was a 73-66 loss to North Carolina in the 2022 Sweet 16 in Philadelphia, when Caleb Love torched the Bruins with six 3-pointers ...