He was fired in 2015 after Texas failed to advance to the Sweet 16 for the seventh straight season. He also won four Big 12 Coach of the Year awards (1999, 2003, 2008, 2014) during his time in Austin, establishing himself as a nationally regarded coach. He coached two national players of the year: T. He also led Texas to their first #1 ranking in 2010, and led the Longhorns to the first 30-win seasons in school history.
They reached the Final Four in 2003, their first in over 50 years, and advanced to the Elite Eight in 20. He guided the Longhorns to 16 NCAA tournament appearances. At Texas, Barnes won a school-record 402 games and transformed the school into one of the top college basketball programs in the nation. 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 qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.īarnes' success at Texas, a traditional football powerhouse, sparked interest in college basketball at the university and throughout the state. At Clemson, his Tigers spent one week of the 1996–97 season ranked second in the AP Poll, the highest ranking in school history.īarnes was hired by Texas in April 1998, and the basketball program immediately displayed his impact. Barnes won his first post-season conference tournament championship in 1994, while at Providence. Barnes advanced to three NCAA tournaments at Providence and three consecutive at Clemson before leaving for Texas in 1998. Prior to coaching at Texas, Barnes coached at George Mason, Providence, and Clemson. He is a 1977 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College where he was a member of the men's basketball team.īarnes served as an assistant under Eddie Biedenbach at Davidson for two seasons and one with Wimp Sanderson at Alabama. He has an overall record of 25–26 (.490) in the NCAA tournament (including 19–16 while at Texas).īarnes was born on Jand grew up in Hickory, North Carolina. Barnes previously coached at George Mason University, Providence College, and Clemson University.
Barnes coached the Texas Longhorns from 1998 to 2015, taking the team to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 16 of his 17 seasons, including 14 straight from 1999 to 2012, as well as a Final Four appearance led by T. Richard Barnes (born July 17, 1954) is a men's college basketball head coach for the Tennessee Volunteers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
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