Tennessee's Rick Barnes and Houston's Kelvin Sampson have known each other since the 1970s. They are coaching against each ...

Rick Barnes, Kelvin Sampson met as North Carolina ... Sampson joined Pembroke State as a guard in 1973. Barnes enrolled at Lenoir-Rhyne in 1974. They played against each other in weekend ...

Rick Barnes is a men's college basketball head coach, leading the Tennessee Volunteers in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), as of March 2025. Barnes coached the Texas Longhorns from 1998 to 2015.

As Houston and Tennessee clashed in the Elite Eight, the spotlight extended beyond the court to two of college basketball’s most respected coaches—Kelvin Sampson and Rick Barnes. Their relationship, ...

He deadpanned jokes about doubling his melatonin dose to sleep after a 10:29 p.m. Friday night tipoff against Purdue, and spun yarns about playing against Rick Barnes’ Lenoir-Rhyne teams when ...

He deadpanned jokes about doubling his melatonin dose to sleep after a 10:29 p.m. Friday night tipoff against Purdue, and spun yarns about playing against Rick Barnes’ Lenoir-Rhyne teams when Sampson ...