If Chaz Lanier isn’t going to shoot the basketball, Rick Barnes isn’t going to play him. That’s how simple and how direct the message was from the head coach to his star transfer Saturday night against Texas at the Moody Center in Austin.

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,

Rick Barnes immediately pulled the senior guard from the game at Texas not because of the errant pass. He was pulled for not shooting. "That play was designed for that shot," the Vols coach said. "I told him, I said, 'If you're not going to do what you're ...

No one has seen better basketball in Austin than Tennessee coach Rick Barnes, who coached the Texas basketball team from 1998-2015 and returned on Saturday as the opposing coach. Barnes ...

Rick Barnes didn't exactly experience any Kevin Durant-like flashbacks when watching true freshman Tre Johnson carve up his elite defense. The winnin

The Tennessee Vols will be falling from the top spot when the new AP men's basketball poll comes out Monday, but they won't be doing so on a losing streak.

It was a homecoming, of sorts, for former Texas coach Rick Barnes, who led the Longhorns for 17 years. Texas (11-5, 0-3 SEC) got 26 points from freshman Tre Johnson against Tennessee (15-1, 2-1), which bounced back after suffering its first loss of the ...

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 immediately pulled the senior guard from the game at Texas not because of the errant pass. He was pulled for not shooting. "That play was designed for that shot," the Vols coach said.

Darlinstone Dubar had 12 points and six rebounds in Tennessee basketball's 74-70 win at Texas. He hit a season-high three 3-pointers.

Although classes at UT have been cancelled Tuesday because of the threat of snow and ice, conditions are expected to improve throughout the afternoon.

Tennessee's 6-foot-11 tandem of J.P. Estrella and Felix Okpara never materialized this basketball season, but Okpara is making sure that is anything but a total loss.