Tennessee basketball and Vanderbilt play Saturday in Nashville for the first meeting since Mark Byington was hired as the Commodores coach.

The Vols defeated No. 14 Mississippi State (15-4, 3-3 SEC), 68-56. Rankings reflect the USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll. Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes discussed the Vols’ top 15 win against the Bulldogs.

Rick Barnes has already done this. The Tennessee basketball coach is returning to Texas again, going back to his home for 17 years and to the school he coached to more than 400 wins. There is one ...

Here's what Mark Byington said about Vols coach Rick Barnes and the rivalry before the Vanderbilt basketball game vs Tennessee on Saturday

Zakai Zeigler sat for the final 7:10 of the first half between Tennessee basketball and Vanderbilt on Saturday. The Commodores outscored UT 20-9 then.

Rick Barnes coached at Texas for 17 seasons, winning more than 400 games before he was fired in 2015 and hired at Tennessee.

Rick Barnes picked up a habit in 1988. The Tennessee basketball coach had landed at Providence after a year at George Mason, making the jump to a bigger level of college basketball. Coaches in the ...

Longtime college basketball coach Rick Barnes, who has coached the University of Tennessee since 2015, took NIL matters into his own hands yesterday in a game that saw Tennessee beat Texas 74 to 70.

Predictions, picks and odds as No. 6 Tennessee basketball faces Vanderbilt. Plus, injury updates and the latest news.

Tennessee's 6-foot-11 tandem of J.P. Estrella and Felix Okpara never materialized this basketball season, but Okpara is making sure that is anything but a total loss.

Tennessee Vols head coach Rick Barnes dropped an all-timer on Tuesday night after UT's 68-56 win against the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The Vols jumped out to an 8-0 lead against the Bulldogs and never really looked back.