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

Rick Barnes and Kelvin Sampson are among winningest coaches in NCAA history. They meet with Final Four on line. It won't ...

Rick Barnes and Kelvin Sampson, both coaching legends without a national title, hope at least one of them ends up reaching ...

Rick Barnes, Kelvin Sampson met as North Carolina college players in the 1970s Sampson and Barnes grew up in North Carolina — Sampson in Laurinburg by the South Carolina border and Barnes in the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Kelvin Sampson has come to expect the late-night phone calls from Rick Barnes. The Houston coach can’t begin to predict Barnes’ reason for calling after decades of picking ...

Rick Barnes and the second-seeded Tennessee Volunteers are one win away from reaching the Final Four of the 2025 NCAA Tournament after they defeated the third-seeded Kentucky Wildcats 78-65 in the Swe ...

Rick Barnes became the winningest active college basketball coach with Tennessee's win against Kentucky in the Sweet 16. He passed John Calipari.