Rick Barnes' first remark to the Tennessee basketball team was positive Tuesday. The coach told his players that its 30-point loss at Florida would ultimately be good for the No. 1 Vols.

Rick Barnes was met with resistance when he wanted to take Zakai Zeigler out of the game Tuesday night at Florida. Never mind that No. 1 Tennessee was limping to the finish line in a 30-point loss. The senior point guard doesn’t give up easily.

The Vols guard had a brutal one against Georgia after having a hard one against Texas after having a rough one against Florida. "The best of the best I have seen go through some periods where they struggled to shoot," Vols coach Rick Barnes said.

Chaz Lanier had 2 free throws at the end of Tennessee basketball's game vs Vanderbilt, making one but missing the 2nd that would have tied the game.

In the aftermath of a close win over a conference rival, University of Tennessee men's basketball coach Rick Barnes ... against Florida was Tennessee's first loss of the season. Barnes is a ...

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes gave leading scorer Chaz Lanier a quick hook just 11 seconds into the second half on Saturday at Texas, benching him for peeling off a screen and hurling an errant pass into the bench area.

Rick Barnes claims he has peppered parenting advice into Justin Caldwell for the past three months. Caldwell had a different claim when he came to Food City Center on Thursday for the first time since he and Lady Vols basketball coach Kim Caldwell welcomed their first child,

On the court, Golden and the Gators are a national championship contender. They opened the season with 13 straight wins, then pummeled a then-undefeated and top-ranked Tennessee by 30 points in early January. They were ranked No. 21 in the preseason AP poll, but Golden supplemented five key returnees with Florida Atlantic transfer Alijah Martin.

Tennessee basketball committed a pair of fouls on 3-point shooters at Vanderbilt, something coach Rick Barnes has emphasized to his players not to do.

Rick Barnes didn’t mince words about No. 6 Tennessee‘s costly defensive lapses in Saturday’s 76-75 upset loss vs. unranked Vanderbilt inside Nashville’s Memorial Gymnasium. Especially when the culprits of those lapses are two of the Volunteers’ most veteran players.

The Volunteer's next five games are all against ranked opponents with three of those games coming against teams currently ranked in the top 10 After its loss to

Mark Pope says it’s a “fun” and “awesome” aspect of playing in the SEC, but it’s something that will be a challenge for the Cats on a game-to-game basis.