caption player_team coach_years current_team championships birth_place overall_record player_years coach_team awards current_title sport birth_date current_record current_conference image article_title name
barnes in 2009 . lenoir-rhyne 1977 1985 -- 1986 1986 -- 1987 1987 -- 1988 1988 -- -- 1994 1994 -- 1998 1998 -- 2015 2015 -- 1978 present 1978 -- 1980 1980 -- 1985 tennessee regional 12 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , regular 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2014 , season 2015 -rrb- championship -lrb- 1999 , 2006 , 2008 championship -rrb- big east tournament championship -lrb- 1994 -rrb- '' ` - ncaa tournament achievements '' ' '' ' 3 '' ' final elite eights -lrb- 2003 , 2006 , 2008 -rrb- '' four ' 6 '' ' sweet sixteens -lrb- 1997 , 2002 -lrb- , 2003 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 -rrb- '' 2003 ' 22 '' ' ncaa tournament bids -lrb- 1989 , -rrb- 1990 , 1994 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , big 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , hickory , north carolina 604 -- 314 -lrb- 604 314 -rrb- 1974 -- 1977 north -rrb- george mason -lrb- asst. -rrb- alabama -lrb- asst. -rrb- state ohio state -lrb- asst. -rrb- george mason providence clemson texas academy tennessee -lrb- asst. -rrb- davidson -lrb- asst. caa 12 coach of the year -lrb- 1999 , 2003 , coacch 2008 , 2014 -rrb- of the year -lrb- 1987 -rrb- big head coach men 's basketball 17 july 1954 0 -- 0 -lrb- 0 0 -rrb- southeastern rick barnes in 2009.jpg rick barnes
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rick barnes

richard dale barnes -lrb- born july 17 , 1954 -rrb- is the current head coach of the tennessee volunteers men 's basketball team .
he coached texas from 1998 to 2015 , taking the team to the ncaa tournament at the conclusion of seventeen seasons , including a final four appearance led by t. j. ford in 2003 .
barnes previously coached at george mason university , providence college , and clemson university .
he is a 1977 graduate of lenoir-rhyne college where he was a member of the men 's basketball team .
barnes ' success at texas , a traditional football powerhouse , sparked interest in college basketball at the university and throughout the state .
hired in april 1998 , the basketball program immediately displayed barnes ' impact .
despite playing with just seven scholarship players for the majority of the 1998 -- 99 season -- and opening the season with a 3-8 record -- the longhorns won 16 of their final 21 games , winning the regular season big 12 conference championship by a two-game margin , and finishing the year at 19-13 and in the ncaa tournament .
barnes received his third big 12 coach of the year award on march 10 , 2008 .
at texas , barnes had great regular season success with 400 + wins and transformed the school into one of the top college basketball programs in the nation .
he also led texas to their first # 1 ranking in 2010 , and owns the only 30-win seasons in school history .
however , he has won only one post-season conference tourney championship -lrb- providence , 1994 big east -rrb- in his 21 years as a collegiate head coach .
he has an overall record of 20 -- 20 -lrb- .500 -rrb- in the ncaa tournament -lrb- 18-14 at texas -rrb- .
in nine of his fourteen years at texas , the longhorns went on to lose to a lower seed in the ncaa tournament .
as for his coaching tree , rick barnes has had four of his assistants hired to head coaching gigs with larry shyatt coaching wyoming -lrb- formerly clemson -rrb- , dennis felton at western kentucky and georgia , before being fired , frank haith at tulsa -lrb- formerly miami -rrb- and missouri , and ken mcdonald going to western kentucky .
in 2007 barnes made a cameo appearance in the nbc television series friday night lights as a recruiter for the fictional school tmu .
