Rick Barnes and Tennessee showed a lot of grit and toughness in a tightly-contested win against Texas A&M on Saturday.

Tennessee men's basketball HC Rick Barnes joins the Dan Le Batard Show to dive into how Dean Smith and Bob Knight influenced his coaching, his endless pursuit of basketball knowledge and into his love of NASCAR.

Facing Texas A&M, the Vols were in another top-10 matchup this season with Tennessee at No. 6 and A&M at No. 7. It was Tennessee’s 4th game of the season against a top-10 opponent, and it goes down as Rick Barnes’s 50th career win against an AP Top 10 team.

Everything head coach Rick Barnes, Chaz Lanier and Zakai Zeigler said after No. 6 Tennessee’s 77-69 win at No. 7 Texas A&M Saturday afternoon at Reed Arena in College Station: How much of Tennessee’s game plan was to restrict Texas A&M’s ability to dribble and drive to the rim “It is our game plan.

Tennessee basketball head coach Rick Barnes did not hold back in breaking down what cost the Volunteers in their loss to Kentucky

Zakai Zeigler scored all 22 of his points against Vanderbilt in the second half of Tennessee's 81-76 win Saturday.

Rick Barnes was worried about Zakai Zeigler at halftime against Kentucky. The Tennessee basketball coach wasn't worried about Zeigler and his right knee anymore after the game. "It was sound or else he wouldn’t have played," Barnes said. "They said it ...