Rick Barnes
Rick Barnes
Richard Dale Barnesis the current head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers men's basketball team, a post he has held since 2015...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 July 1954
game knew loves
He loves this game. I knew he would be a person that would come back from it.
improved iron man might player
He might have improved as much as any player that I've ever coached. And he has become an iron man.
coming pros talked
We talked about the pros of coming back and pros of leaving. I told him he's going to have to make this decision; I can't.
good run
We told them ... if they score, we've got to get it back and run it at them. We got as good a look as we could probably get.
defense difference
Our defense was outstanding again. That has been the difference in our team.
against defense good percent shoots team time
Our defense was good. Any time a team shoots 32 percent against you, you feel pretty good about it.
ball passes team turn veteran
Some of our passes were ridiculous. To turn the ball over as many times as we did and win, we were fortunate. They're an older, veteran team in midseason form.
ball passes team turn veteran
Some of our passes were ridiculous, ... To turn the ball over as many times as we did and win, we were fortunate. They're an older, veteran team in midseason form.
definitely deserves people texas
Texas A&M definitely deserves to get in. There will be a lot of people who won't want to play A&M.
basketball five good people ranked start three top
Look at Oklahoma. They start three seniors. They're a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, they (were wrong). You don't get ranked in the top five in the preseason if you don't have a good basketball team.
basketball college expect february finish lead needed overcome teams
That's college basketball. I just told them they needed to finish the game. An 18-point lead is nothing that can't be overcome and in February you expect teams to play hard.
ball guys handle job taking tremendous
Their guys are quick. If you don?t handle the ball well, they do a tremendous job of taking it away and capitalizing on it.
ask beat guess remember thrown
I remember getting beat and getting thrown out of the game. I guess you will ask me why I got thrown out of the game. Is that what you want to get into?
good night shooting
I look at it, and we didn't have a good night shooting the ball, but we still scored 82 points. There really were some good things.