Rod Barnes
Rod Barnes (born January 8, 1966)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners
Current conference: Big West Conference
Ole Miss record: 141-109 (.564)
Georgia State record: 44-79 (.358)
Cal State Bakersfield record: 195-212 (.479)
Overall record: 381-401 (.487)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 4 (1999, 2001, 2002, 2016)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 1 (2001)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2000, 2017)
- CIT Appearances: 2 (2012, 2019)
- WAC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2017)
- SEC Regular Season Champion: 1 (2001)
- WAC Tournament Champion: 1 (2016)
Awards:
- Naismith Coach of the Year: 1 (2001)
- Hugh Durham Award: 1 (2017)
- WAC Coach of the Year: 2 (2016, 2017)
- SEC Coach of the Year: 1 (2001)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2011-present | Cal State Bakersfield |
| 2007-2011 | Georgia State |
| 2006-2007 | Oklahoma (asst) |
| 1998-2006 | Ole Miss |
| 1993-1998 | Ole Miss (asst) |
| 1990-1993 | Livingston (asst) |
Rod Barnes Facts
- Rodrick Kenneth Barnes
- Born January 8, 1966
- Hometown: Satartia, Mississippi
- Alma Mater: University of Mississippi (BA, 1988)
- Played four seasons at hometown Ole Miss, first for head coach Lee Hunt and later for Rob Evans
- Started coaching career in 1990 as an assistant at D-II Livingston College (now U of West Alabama)
- Spent five seasons as an assistant to Evans at Ole Miss before taking over as the Rebels head coach in 1998
- Went to three NCAA Tournaments and one NIT in his first four years, but success waned and the team finished below .500 for the next four
- Worked as an assistant to Jeff Capel III at Oklahoma for one season between head coaching jobs
- Was head coach of the Georgia State Panthers for four seasons, going 44-79 overall
- In March 2011, Barnes became the head coach at Cal State Bakersfield
- Won the WAC Tournament in 2016 and then the WAC regular season title a year later, finishing 25-10 (12-2)
Rod Barnes Coaching Tree
- Tom Abernethy (Trinity International)
- Anthony Boone (Central Arkansas)
- Wayne Brent (Jackson State)
- Jeff Conarroe (Colorado College)
- Paul Graham (Georgia State)
- Jason Harrison (Mississippi Gulf Coast, Holmes CC)
- Mike Schrage (Elon)
- Benjy Taylor (Tuskegee)
- Mike White (Georgia, Florida, Louisiana Tech)
