THE BARNES FILE

Personal Information

Full Name: Richard Dale Barnes
Born: July 17, 1954
Hometown: Hickory, N.C.
High School: Hickory
College: Lenoir-Rhyne, 1977
Wife: Candy
Children: Nick (wife Rachel), Carley (husband Josh)
Grandchildren: Avery, Caleb, Emma, Isla, Theo, Elder and Everett

Coaching Experience

1977-78:
North State Academy, assistant coach
1978-80:
Davidson, assistant coach
1980-85:
George Mason, assistant coach
1985-86:
Alabama, assistant coach
1986-87:
Ohio State, assistant coach
1987-88:
George Mason, head coach
1988-94:
Providence, head coach
1994-98:
Clemson, head coach
1998-2015:
Texas, head coach
2015-present:
Tennessee, head coach

TENNESSEE HIGHLIGHTS

Seventh-most total wins in Division I 2017-18 through 2024-25 (201) and most wins in SEC play (98)
Seven straight NCAA Tournament appearances (all seeded fifth or better)
Three SEC championships (two regular season, one tournament)
Four Sweet 16 appearances
Two Elite Eight berths
2022 Battle 4 Atlantis champion
2025 Baha Mar Championship champion
2018-19 Naismith National Coach of the Year Award and USBWA Henry Iba National Coach of the Year Award
2017-18 SEC Coach of the Year and runner-up for Naismith National Coach of the Year
Two-time NABC District 21 Coach of the Year, two-time USBWA District 4 Coach of the Year and two-time TSWA Coach of the Year (all 2017-18 and 2018-19)
Has produced 10 NBA Draft picks, all since 2019 (third-most of any school or coach in that time)
Coached four "one-and-done" NBA Draft picks
Had three players selected in the 2019 NBA Draft, two in 2021 (both in the first round) and two in 2025
Earned a spot in the Associated Press Top 25 on 134 occasions (76 times in the top 10, 38 in the top five, nine at No. 1)
Led Tennessee to an AP top-25 ranking every week during the 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons (school-record 80 weeks in a row)
Coached his team to an AP top-10 ranking for the entire 2018-19 season, a program first
Led the Volunteers to the No. 1 ranking in both major polls for four consecutive weeks in 2018-19 and five straight weeks in 2024-25
Guided Tennessee to a school-record 19-game win streak in 2018-19
In his third year at Tennessee, guided a team picked in the preseason to finish No. 13 in the league to the 2017-18 SEC regular season championship
Owns a 12-12 record against Kentucky, has defeated the Wildcats four times at Rupp Arena and beat Kentucky in the 2025 Sweet 16
Developed three-star recruit Grant Williams into a consensus First Team All-American and two-time SEC Player of the Year
Helped transfer Dalton Knecht become a consensus First Team All-American, AP National Player of the Year runner-up, Julius Erving Award winner and SEC Player of the Year
Worked with transfer Chaz Lanier, who became a Third Team All-American, the Jerry West Award winner and the SEC Newcomer of the Year
Identified, then developed three-star Zakai Zeigler into a Third Team All-American, two-time SEC Defensive Player of the Year and the program record-holder for assists and steals
Signed five McDonald's All-Americans

TEXAS HIGHLIGHTS

All-time winningest coach in program history
Advanced to the NCAA Tournament 16 times in 17 seasons
Appeared in five Sweet Sixteens, three Elite Eights and one Final Four
Won three Big 12 Conference championships (1999, 2006, 2008)
Four Big 12 Coach of the Year Awards (1999, 2003, 2008, 2014)
Five NABC District 9 Coach of the Year Awards (1999, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2014)
Led the Longhorns to a No. 1 national ranking on Jan. 11, 2010
180 weeks in the Associated Press Top 25 (84 weeks in the Top 10)
96 wins over Associated Press Top-25 opponents
Coached future Hall of Famer Kevin Durant
Two National Players of the Year award winners
Three National Freshman of the Year honorees
Four consensus first-team All-Americans
Produced 17 NBA Picks, including 11 first-round selections
Signed five Top-10 recruiting classes
Signed 15 McDonald's All-Americans

CLEMSON HIGHLIGHTS

School-record three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances
Advanced to the 1997 NCAA Sweet Sixteen
Earned a program-best No. 2 national ranking during the 1996-97 season
After four seasons, he owned the school's best all-time winning percentage (.607)
13 wins over Associated Press Top-25 opponents
Signed a Top-10 recruiting class in 1996
Produced one NBA Draft pick

PROVIDENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Five postseason berths (three NCAA Tournaments, two NITs)
Won the program's first Big East Tournament title (1994)
17 wins over Associated Press Top-25 opponents
1989 NABC District 1 Coach of the Year
Signed the nation's fourth-ranked recruiting class in 1990
Produced seven NBA Draft picks, including four first-round selections
Signed one McDonald's All-American

GEORGE MASON HIGHLIGHTS

Led the Patriots to 20 wins in his lone season as head coach
1988 Colonial Athletic Association Co-Coach of the Year

BARNES COACHING BREAKDOWN

Tennessee’s fortunes on the hardwood have never looked brighter, as Rick Barnes, the most decorated and accomplished head coach in school history, has led the Volunteers to new heights in his 10 seasons on Rocky Top. The 2025-26 campaign is his 11th at Tennessee and his 39th as a head coach.

During the Barnes era, Tennessee has made seven consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (2018-25), won at least 25 games six times and earned a top-four NCAA Tournament seed on six occasions. It has made four Sweet 16 appearances and two Elite Eight trips. The Volunteers have spent 134 weeks in the Associated Press Top 25 under Barnes, including 76 in the top 10, 38 in the top five—the program had 17 total top-five nods before his arrival—and nine atop the national poll.

Since the start of the 2017-18 season, Tennessee leads all SEC programs in postseason victories (23), plus sits a narrow second in overall winning percentage (.731) and overall victories (201), with the latter mark seventh-best at the Division I level. The Volunteers are also first in the league in victories (98) and winning percentage (.685) in league play. During that time, the Volunteers have three SEC titles, winning the regular season in 2017-18 and 2023-24, along with the SEC Tournament in 2022, the latter the program’s first such crown in 43 years. Over just the last four seasons, 2021-25, Tennessee is eighth nationally and atop the SEC with 109 victories, the best four-year total in program history.

Barnes is an eight-time NABC district coach of the year and six-time conference coach of the year. Through 2024-25, he is ninth on the all-time Division I wins list, including first among active coaches, with 836 victories. He earned Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame first-time nominee status on the 2024 ballot and was again listed in 2025. Mark Few is the only other active head coach on the list nominated as a coach.

In 2018-19, Barnes won Naismith Coach of the Year and USBWA Henry Iba Coach of the Year after guiding Tennessee to a 31-6 record to tie a school record for wins. The Volunteers, who reached the Sweet 16, authored a program-record 19-game winning streak, logged three wins over top-five opponents and spent a month ranked first nationally. Tennessee spent that entire season in the AP top eight and set single-season program records for points, assists and blocks.

The Volunteers have spent the entirety of the last four seasons, 2021-25, ranked in the AP Top 25. That streak of 80 straight weeks in the rankings is the third-longest active mark in the country entering 2025-26 and is 43 longer than the program’s prior record of 37 set from March 1999-Feb. 2001. The stretch includes 75 weeks in the top 20, 63 in the top 15, 50 in the top 10, 24 in the top five, seven in the top three and five at No. 1 overall.

Adding the 2020-21 season, Tennessee has been ranked in 94 of the last 97 polls, with 56 top-10 positions. Over that five-year stretch, Tennessee, Alabama, Houston and Kansas are the only four programs to enter the AP top six each season. The Volunteers and Jayhawks are also the only teams to earn a top-five spot in each of the last four campaigns.

The marriage of Barnes’ elite résumé and Tennessee’s world-class facilities, fervent fan base and outstanding athletic and academic resources, clearly has the Vols poised to continue consistently competing for titles. On Aug. 28, 2025, Barnes agreed to a lifetime contract to remain on Rocky Top for the remainder of his esteemed coaching career.

“Rick has taken our program to unprecedented heights, and we are absolutely thrilled to have him continue coaching on Rocky Top for the rest of his career,” Vice Chancellor/Director of Athletics Danny White said upon announcing the new contract. “He has constructed this program the right way, achieving elite-level success on the court while also ensuring that all our players excel off the court.”

Barnes began his Tennessee tenure on March 31, 2015. In his first season, Barnes worked personally with Kevin Punter Jr., on a complete mechanical overhaul of his jump shot. The endeavor helped Punter more than double his scoring average from his junior year, as he finished the season No. 13 nationally in points per game at 22.2, en route to Second Team All-SEC honors.

The next year, 2016-17, Barnes coached another Second Team All-SEC performer in Robert Hubbs III, who tallied 25 points in a win over fourth-ranked Kentucky. It marked the first time since 1993 an unranked Tennessee team beat a top-five Wildcat squad and, paired with a win in Barnes’ first year, proved to be a sign to come of the Volunteers’ success under Barnes in the rivalry.

In Barnes’ 10 years at Tennessee, the Volunteers are 12-12 versus Kentucky, including 7-1 against AP top-10 Wildcat teams. Before his arrival on Rocky Top, Tennessee was 9-35 in the prior 22 years of the series, including 2-21 with Kentucky in the top 10. Barnes, who has led the Volunteers to at least one win over the Wildcats in nine of his 10 years, is 4-4 in the last eight road games at Rupp Arena after the program was 2-36 in the preceding 38 seasons. Tennessee also beat Kentucky, 78-65, in the 2025 Sweet 16 in the programs’ first NCAA Tournament clash.

Entering 2017-18, Tennessee was picked No. 13 in the 14-team SEC, but Barnes and his staff led the Big Orange to an SEC regular season championship and the SEC Tournament title game. The Volunteers went 26-9 (13-5 SEC), good for their most wins in eight years, and earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament, in which they reached the Round of 32. Barnes won SEC Coach of the Year and finished as the runner-up for Naismith National Coach of the Year after Tennessee became one of only eight Power Five teams to increase its overall wins total by 10-plus games and one of 13 Power Five teams to win 13-plus games away from home. The Volunteers led the SEC in scoring defense (65.7) and assists per game (15.7) and achieved their success while playing, per KenPom, the 11th-hardest schedule in America. Grant Williams won SEC Player of the Year, while Lamonte Turner became the first and only Volunteer to earn SEC Co-Sixth Man of the Year plaudits.

That season also started an eight-year stretch during which Tennessee has become one of the premier programs in the country, as one of just eight schools with 200-plus wins in that time. In six of those eight campaigns, Tennessee has finished top-15 in KenPom, including placing top-10 five times. In each of the last three years the Volunteers have set or tied a new program-best finish in the analytical website’s rankings, coming in at ninth in 2021-22, sixth in 2022-23, fifth in 2023-24 and fifth again in 2024-25. Additionally, Tennessee has boasted a top-six KenPom defense in six of those years, placing top-three each of the last four seasons, highlighted by a first-place position in 2022-23.

Barnes followed up the 2017-18 campaign with the aforementioned 31-6 (15-3 SEC) showing in 2018-19 that garnered him multiple national coach of the year plaudits. Tennessee started the year 23-1, with the lone setback in overtime on a neutral court against second-ranked Kansas. It held a top-three spot in the AP Poll for 10 straight weeks, capped by a program-record four consecutive weeks atop the rankings. The Volunteers earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, tying 2007-08 and 2005-06 for their best position ever.

Williams won SEC Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, becoming the third Volunteer ever to do so and the first to do so in the league since Corliss Williams in 1993-94 and 1994-95. Williams, a finalist for the Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award, also became Tennessee’s third consensus First Team All-American since another back-to-back SEC Player of the Year, Dale Ellis, in 1982-83. Admiral Schofield gave Tennessee a second First Team All-SEC pick, while Jordan Bone collected Second Team All-SEC plaudits. All three were selected in the 2019 NBA Draft, with Williams going No. 22 overall, marking the first time since 1977 a trio of Volunteers heard their names called.

That began a stretch of NBA Draft success for Tennessee, as 10 Volunteers have received the call in the last seven years (2019-24), one of just three schools—the others are Duke and Kentucky—that can make such a claim. Four of those individuals have gone in the first round and four are also among the nine one-and-done collegians whom Barnes has coached, with 2021 draftees Keon Johnson and Jaden Springer on both lists. Tennessee is one of just five schools with at least one NBA Draft choice each year from 2021-25, notching seven in that time. In total, 12 of Barnes’ players at Tennessee have reached the NBA, all since 2019.

In 2019-20, a young Tennessee team posted a 17-14 (9-9 SEC) record before the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Led by a career-high 27 points from Second Team All-SEC designee John Fulkerson, the Volunteers capped their road slate by rallying from a 17-point second-half deficit to win at sixth-ranked Kentucky. Yves Pons won SEC Defensive Player of the Year, the first player in program history to do so.

The Volunteers went 18-9 (10-7 SEC) during a 2020-21 season with limited games as a result of the pandemic. Tennessee won at Kentucky for the second year in a row—a first since 1975-76 and 1976-77—as well as beat Kansas in Knoxville, Tenn. The program, which started a five-year streak of top-five KenPom defenses, received a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

In 2021-22, Tennessee turned in a 27-8 (14-4 SEC) ledger, good for the fourth-most wins in a season in program history. A highlight came on March 13 in Tampa, Fla., when the Volunteers downed Texas A&M to win the SEC Tournament title for the first time in 43 years. Second Team All-SEC pick Kennedy Chandler became the second Volunteer, alongside Allan Houston in 1991, to win SEC Tournament MVP. Santiago Vescovi collected First Team All-SEC plaudits, helping the Volunteers to a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament and a spot in the Round of 32. Tennessee went 14-2 in its last 16 games and ended the year with seven AP top-25 wins and six AP top-15 victories, both new program records at the time. It finished fifth in the AP Poll, matching 2007-08 for the best year-end spot in school history.

Barnes steered the Volunteers to a 25-11 (11-7 SEC) showing in 2022-23, with the team peaking at second in the AP Poll. Despite losing Second Team All-SEC honoree Zakai Zeigler to injury in the home finale, Tennessee reached the Sweet 16. The fourth-seeded Volunteers beat Duke, 65-52, in the second round, using one of the finest defenses in college basketball history to limit the Blue Devils to their co-lowest point total ever in the NCAA Tournament. Vescovi garnered his second straight First Team All-SEC nod and aided Tennessee to a 5-1 record versus AP top-15 foes. Tennessee also won the Battle 4 Atlantic crown in November, defeating Butler, USC and third-ranked Kansas in consecutive days.

In 2023-24, Tennessee turned in arguably its best season ever, making the Elite Eight and winning an SEC title in the same year for the first time. The Volunteers went 27-9 (14-4 SEC), tied for their fourth-most wins ever and claimed the league’s regular season title outright for the sixth time and first since 2007-08. Tennessee collected seven AP top-25 wins to tie the program record set two years prior and received a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, tied for its best spot ever. It finished fifth in both major polls, tying the school record in the AP Poll and setting a new best mark in the Coaches Poll. Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award finalist Dalton Knecht, the runner-up for AP National Player of the Year, led the SEC in scoring and finished eighth nationally at 21.7 points per game. The SEC Player of the Year and Julius Erving Award designee, Knecht became the fourth consensus First Team All-American at Tennessee and second, alongside Williams, to play for Barnes on Rocky Top. Two other Volunteers earned All-SEC status, with Zeigler winning SEC Defensive Player of the Year.

Most recently, in 2024-25, Barnes again led Tennessee to a year that could be perhaps its best ever, amassing 30 victories and reaching the Elite Eight in the same campaign for the first time. The Volunteers produced a 30-8 (12-6 SEC) record, made the NCAA Regional Final for the second year in a row (third time ever) and played in the SEC Tournament title game for the fourth time in the last seven opportunities (14th time ever). Tennessee tied the program record by finishing fifth in the AP Poll, Coaches Poll and KenPom rankings, all for the second straight season. Barnes’ team spent the entire year in the AP top 12, including the final 18 weeks in the top eight, and five times took the No. 1 position. Tennessee set school records with 10 AP top-25 wins and seven AP top-15 victories, plus tied a program record with four AP top-10 triumphs, all of which came over top-seven foes. The Volunteers, who earned a win over the eventual national champion for the fourth time and were the final undefeated team in Division I for the second time, were the only team in the country with two All-Americans in Chaz Lanier and Zakai Zeigler. The former won SEC Newcomer of the Year, while the latter repeated as SEC Defensive Player of the Year. Zeigler, who became the fourth player to lead the SEC in assists three years in a row and the first four-time SEC All-Defensive Team pick, set the SEC single-season assist record (275), as well as the Tennessee career records for assists (747) and steals (251). He and classmate Jahmai Mashack, who finished 60-5 at home in their four-year careers, were both among the four finalists for Naismith Defensive Player of the Year.

In fitting with Tennessee’s mantra of “comprehensive excellence,” Barnes’ commitment to his players’ academic achievement cannot be overstated. His teams have posted a perfect 1,000 score in seven of the last eight multi-year APR reports at Tennessee, plus had perfect single-year APR scores in each of his final 10 seasons at Texas (2005-15). In May 2025, the Volunteers notched their best multi-year rate in program history and earned the NCAA’s APR Public Recognition Award for ranking top-10 percent in the sport in multi-year rate.

Prior to Barnes’ arrival on Rocky Top, he oversaw a prolific, 17-year run at Texas that included 16 trips to the NCAA Tournament, five Sweet 16 bids and three Big 12 regular season titles. He won four Big 12 Coach of the Year accolades during his tenure in Austin, Texas.

Previously, Barnes served as the head coach at Clemson for four seasons (1994-98), Providence for six seasons (1988-94) and George Mason for one season (1987-88), claiming CAA Coach of the Year in his lone campaign with the Patriots. He has reached the postseason in 32 of his 37 seasons as a head coach and won at least 25 games on 12 occasions, with 30-plus thrice.

Barnes has led his teams to 29 total NCAA Tournament berths, fourth-most in DI history behind only Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim and Roy Williams. His teams have made 10 Sweet 16s, five Elite Eights and one Final Four (2003). In 2019, he became one of eight head coaches ever to lead three different DI programs to the Sweet 16 (Clemson, Texas and Tennessee) in the 64-team era (since 1985).

In addition, Barnes has worked as an assistant coach at Davidson for two seasons (1978-80), George Mason for five seasons (1980-85), Ohio State for one season (1985-86) and Alabama for one season (1986-87). He has coaching experience in the ACC, Big 12, BIG EAST, Big Ten, CAA, SEC and SoCon. Barnes also coached at North State Academy, a high school in North Carolina, in 1977-78 to begin his career.

Barnes' success on the sidelines is simply staggering. He coached Providence to three NCAA Tournament berths in six seasons. He then guided Clemson to the NCAA Tournament the last three of his four years there before leading Texas to the field in each of his first 14 seasons, making it a personal 17-year streak, still the seventh-longest mark ever by a DI head coach.

Not only do his players find themselves perennially positioned to play for championships, but they are also consistently in the national rankings. Barnes’ teams have spent 350 total weeks in the AP Top 25, including 174 weeks in the top 10, 84 in the top five and 45 in the top three. He is one of just seven DI coaches to lead multiple schools to the No. 1 spot in the AP Poll, earning 11 nods atop the poll (two at Texas, nine at Tennessee).

Barnes has guided three different schools—Tennessee, Texas and Clemson—to a total of 25 weeks in the top two of the AP Poll and led each to its highest ranking ever. Tennessee took the top spot for four weeks in 2018-19 (Jan. 21-Feb.17) and five weeks in 2024-25 (Dec. 9-Jan. 12), after it previously had just one week there all-time, in 2007-08. Barnes’ Texas squad earned the program’s first-ever No. 1 national ranking on Jan. 11, 2010, and held it for two weeks. He also steered Clemson to a No. 2 national ranking—its highest ever and still the only time it has reached that spot—on Jan. 20, 1997.

Additionally, Barnes has collected 140 career wins (44 at Tennessee) over AP top-25 opponents, including 53 versus top-10 foes (17 at Tennessee) and 28 over top-five teams (11 at Tennessee). He has coached the Volunteers to two wins over the nation’s top-ranked team, beating No. 1 Gonzaga in 2018-19 in Phoenix and toppling No. 1 Alabama in 2022-23.

Barnes is one of 17 DI head coaches to take four schools to the NCAA Tournament, one of 19 with 200-plus wins at multiple schools and one of 27 with 100-plus at three institutions. Barnes is one of just six coaches on each of the latter two lists, alongside John Calipari, Hugh Durham, Jeff Jones, Jim Larrañaga and Kelvin Sampson. He has won 20-plus games 25 times, tied for No. 12 in DI history, while his 13 25-win campaigns and four 30-win showings both rank seventh among active DI coaches.

Widely respected for his player development, Barnes is one of only six coaches who can claim two different National Players of the Year this century (T.J. Ford in 2002-03 and Kevin Durant in 2006-07). The others are John Calipari, Tom Izzo, Mike Krzyzewski, Thad Matta and Roy Williams. Only three—Barnes, Calipari and Krzyzewski—have had different players win at least three of the six recognized honors during that time.

Barnes, who also guided Dalton Knecht to a runner-up finish for 2023-24 AP National Player of the Year, has produced 13 All-Americans, including six consensus first-team selections, and six conference players of the year (five individuals). He has guided 16 individuals to 20 total first-team all-conference designations, as well as five to league freshman of the year accolades and 19 to all-freshman status. Barnes has coached four conference defensive player of the year winners (three individuals), with 13 players totaling 19 all-defensive team nods.

In his 38 years as a head coach, Barnes has sent 46 players to the NBA. He has produced 35 NBA Draft choices, including 19 first-rounders, eight lottery picks, six top-10 selections, three top-five choices and two No. 2 picks. The draft picks alone have totaled over $1.56 billion in on-court NBA earnings, while 10 of his players have combined for 12 NBA championship rings.

Including his eight years as an assistant coach, Barnes has helped 53 players reach the NBA, with 42 getting drafted. Of them, 23 went in the first round, with 10 in the lottery, eight in the top 10, four in the top five and three in the top three.

Durant—who has referred to Barnes as “more than a coach,” but also a “father figure”—was the second pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, one year after another Barnes protegee, LaMarcus Aldridge, also went second. A two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time NBA champion, Durant is a 14-time NBA All-Star, 11-time All-NBA selection, four-time NBA scoring champion and two-time NBA Finals MVP. He won the NBA MVP award in 2014 and NBA Rookie of the Year honors in 2008. Barnes is one of four active coaches who has produced an NBA MVP, a list that also includes Herb Sendek, one of the 15 former Barnes assistants who has gone on to become a DI head coach.

Durant and Aldridge are two of the 20 McDonald’s All-Americans whom Barnes has coached.He inked four in a row during his Tennessee tenure: Josiah-Jordan James in 2019, Springer in 2020, Chandler in 2021 and Julian Phillips in 2022. He will coach his 21st, including his fifth at Tennessee, in 2025-26 with the addition of Nate Ament, the third top-five recruit in program history.

A native of Hickory, N.C., Barnes was born on July 17, 1954. He was a standout player at Hickory High School, from which he graduated in 1973. Barnes then moved on to Lenoir-Rhyne University—then Lenoir-Rhyne College—in his hometown of Hickory. He lettered there for three seasons and won the Captain’s Award for Leadership as both a junior and senior.

Barnes earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Lenoir-Rhyne in 1977 and was named the college’s Distinguished Alumnus in 1997. He was inducted into the Lenoir-Rhyne College Hall of Fame on Oct. 5, 2002, and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lenoir-Rhyne on May 7, 2005.

In 2023, Barnes was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame and was shortly thereafter recognized with the Dick Vitale Spirit Award at the annual Dick Vitale Gala, benefiting the V Foundation. He was a 2014 inductee to the University of Texas Hall of Honor, a 2007 selection to the Catawba County Sports Hall of Fame and a 2002 choice for the Lenoir-Rhyne Sports Hall of Fame. Most recently, in 2025, Barnes earned the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame Pat Summitt Lifetime Achievement Award.

In May 2022, Barnes was named chair of the 2022-23 NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee after serving on the committee for multiple years.

Barnes has a history of generous charitable giving and service not only in his hometown, but also in every community in which he has resided as a collegiate head coach. In East Tennessee, he plays an active role in supporting the Emerald Youth Foundation and sits on the Board of Trustees.

He and his wife, Candy, also a Hickory native, have a son, Nick, and a daughter, Carley. Carley and her husband, Josh Lickteig, have five children: Avery, Caleb, Emma, Isla and Theo. Nick and his wife, Rachel, have two sons, Elder and Everett.

BARNES' NBA DRAFT PICKS (35)

Year	Name, Pos	Round (Overall)	Team
1990	Abdul Shamsid-Deen, C	2nd (53)	Seattle
1991	Eric Murdock, G	1st (21)	Utah
1994	Dickey Simpkins, F	1st (21)	Chicago
1994	Michael Smith, F	2nd (35)	Sacramento
1995	Eric Williams, F	1st (14)	Boston
1995	Troy Brown, F	2nd (45)	Atlanta
1997	Austin Croshere, F/C	1st (12)	Indiana
1998	Greg Buckner, G	2nd (53)	Dallas
1999	Kris Clack, F	2nd (55)	Boston
2000	Chris Mihm, C	1st (7)	Chicago
2002	Chris Owens, F	2nd (48)	Milwaukee
2003	T.J. Ford, G	1st (8)	Milwaukee
2004	Royal Ivey, G	2nd (37)	Atlanta
2006	LaMarcus Aldridge, F/C	1st (2)	Chicago
2006	P.J. Tucker, G/F	2nd (35)	Toronto
2006	Daniel Gibson, G	2nd (42)	Cleveland
2007	Kevin Durant, F	1st (2)	Seattle
2008	D.J. Augustin, G	1st (9)	Charlotte
2010	Avery Bradley, G	1st (19)	Boston
2010	Damion James, F	1st (24)	Atlanta
2010	Dexter Pittman, C	2nd (32)	Miami
2011	Tristan Thompson, F	1st (4)	Cleveland
2011	Jordan Hamilton, G/F	1st (26)	Dallas
2011	Cory Joseph, G	1st (29)	San Antonio
2015	Myles Turner, C	1st (11)	Indiana
2019	Grant Williams, F	1st (22)	Boston
2019	Admiral Schofield, G/F	2nd (42)	Philadelphia
2019	Jordan Bone, G	2nd (57)	New Orleans
2021	Keon Johnson, G	1st (21)	New York
2021	Jaden Springer, G	1st (28)	Philadelphia
2022	Kennedy Chandler, G	2nd (38)	San Antonio
2023	Julian Phillips, F	2nd (35)	Boston
2024	Dalton Knecht, G	1st (17)	Los Angeles Lakers
2025	Chaz Lanier, G	2nd (37)	Detroit
2025	Jahmai Mashack, G	2nd (59)	Houston