• Player
• Seasons: 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93
• Number: 22
• Position: F/G
• Height: 6' 6“
• Weight: 215 lbs.
• Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
• High School: North Central
• Prep School: none
• Transfer From: none
• Birthdate: August 10, 1971

• Solid outside shooter, averaging in double-figures each of his four seasons
• 1,643 career points. At the time he finished, this was third-most all-time at UMass. See where that ranks on the current UMass all-time list.
• Ranked in the top ten in several UMass record categories¹⁾
• 1244 field goals attempted was sixth-most.
• 116 three-pointers made, and 341 threes attempted, were both third-most.
• 477 free throws made was second-most, 657 attempted was third-most.
• 135 steals was tied for fifth-most.
• 126 games played was tied for first (with Jim McCoy).
• 118 games started was second-most (Jim McCoy 121).
• 3692 minutes played was fourth-most.

• Co-captain, along with Harper Williams
• All-Atlantic 10 Second Team
• NABC All-District Second Team
• Third on the team in scoring with 13.5 ppg
• Led team in minutes played (941 in 31 games, 30.4 mpg)
• Perfect 10-10 FTs vs. Rutgers (2/6/1993)
• Shot 7-8 from the line versus Virginia (3/21), which was UM's best in an NCAA Tournament game²⁾

• NABC All-District Second Team
• Third on the team in scoring with 12.1 ppg
• 20 free throws attempted (in game vs. New Hampshire, 12/20/1991) is tied for 4th in UMass record book.³⁾

• All-Atlantic 10 Second Team
• Second on the team in scoring with 15.3 ppg
• 141 free throws was, at the time, sixth-most in a single UMass season. 203 free throws attempted was fourth-most.⁴⁾
• Last-second 3-pointer at Siena sent UMass to NIT Final Four

• Atlantic 10 All-Freshman Team
• Second on the team in scoring with 11.4 ppg
• First on the team in free throw percentage at .809

Career high in points: 31 versus South Carolina (12/29/1992 in Springfield)

Invalid Link Barbee playing in The Cage, here against West Virginia.

Another from a game in The Cage.

Head Coach

• Named the head coach on 4/23/21.⁵⁾
• Official biography page
• CMU pages on Sports-Reference.com or Wikipedia
• Earned his 150th career head coaching win as CMU defeated Siena on 11/20/2023.⁶⁾
• MAC Coach of the Year for the 2023-24 season.⁷⁾ Guided Chippewas to 4th place finish (12-6), after being tabbed for last (12th) place in the pre-season poll. The 12 MAC victories were CMU's most at CMU since 2014-15.

Special Assistant / Assistant / Associate Head Coach

• Served as an assistant coach from 2015-16 through 2019-20, and then the 2020-21 season as associate head coach.⁸⁾
• In this seven season span, UK went .770 and played in five of the six NCAA Tournaments (1 Final Four, 3 Elite Eights, 4 Sweet Sixteens). UK was the SEC regular season champ four times, and won four straight SEC tournaments (2015-18).
• Reunited with John Calipari in Lexington, joining the staff in August 2014. Kentucky created a “special assistant to the head coach” position for him.

Head Coach

• Let go after four seasons, after Tigers couldn't get to .500.
• Went 0-5 against Kentucky and John Calipari.
• Hired at Auburn in March 2010, the first black basketball coach in school history.⁹⁾

Head Coach

• In his four years, he guided UTEP to a 82-52 (.612) overall record, and 39-25 (.609) in Conference USA.
• 2009-10: UTEP goes 15-1 in C-USA and wins the conference title (first since 2004), climbs back into the AP rankings (first since 1992), and reaches the NCAA Tournament (first since 2005).¹⁰⁾
• New job articles: August 2006, November 2006.
• Barbee was the first black head coach at UTEP,¹¹⁾ a school that broke a color barrier in 1966 as the first NCAA champion with five African-American starters.
• Got his first head coaching job with UTEP, starting in the 2006-07 season, backfilling Doc Sadler after he went to Nebraska.

Assistant Coach

• In his six seasons, Memphis went 148-59 (.715) overall and 69-25 (.734) in Conference USA, with three conference titles, the 2006 C-USA Tournament Championship, and three NCAA Tournaments.¹²⁾
• Hired to be part of John Calipari's first staff in Memphis.

• Jan 2000: Barbee passes on his knowledge.
• Came back to UMass as an assistant coach for the 1999-2000 season. Article on his return.
• Took an assistant coach job at Wyoming for the 1998-99 season.
• Served as assistant coach to Bruiser Flint for the 1996-97 and 1997-98 seasons. UMass made the NCAA Tournament in both seasons.
• Offered an assistant coaching position at St. John's in the 1996 off-season, which he turned down.
• Returned to UMass for the 1995-96 season for a graduate assistant's role, and also and joined the radio team with Marc Vandermeer and Jack Leaman.
• Played professionally in France, for LaRochelle, 1994-95.
• Played professionally in Spain, for Cornella in Barcelona, 1993-94.

• Twitter - @CoachTonyBarbee
• Wikipedia - Tony Barbee