{"id":794638,"date":"2026-07-24T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/794638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:54:15","slug":"watch-tennessee-basketball-drops-trailer-for-upcoming-rick-barnes-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/794638\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tennessee Basketball Drops Trailer for Upcoming Rick Barnes Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-5.36.27-PM.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-163488\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"rick barnes documentary\" width=\"555\" height=\"359\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2025-03-30-at-5.36.27-PM-300x194.png\"\/><\/a>Tennessee\u2019s Zakai Zeigler and Rick Barnes embrace after the Vols\u2019 Elite 8 loss to Houston on Sunday in Indianapolis. Photo via NCAA postgame video.<\/p>\n<p>Since Rick Barnes took over the Tennessee basketball program in 2015, he\u2019s had unprecedented success. Securing his position as the most accomplished head coach in Vols hoops history, Barnes is starting to get his flowers. Coming off a third-straight Elite Eight appearance, UT dropped a trailer for an upcoming documentary about him titled \u2018It\u2019s Not About Me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s Not About Me\u2019, or commonly abbreviated to INAM, is the slogan used inside of Barnes\u2019 Tennessee program. The mentality has led to unselfish stars such as Zakai Zeigler, Jahmai Mashack, Josiah-Jordan James, Nate Ament, Dalton Knecht, Chaz Lanier, Grant Williams, Admiral Schofield, Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie, Santiago Vescovi, Jordan Bone and many more finding not just personal, but team success in their college careers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the first trailer for the documentary, which will be released on July 30, 2026, on the Tennessee Athletics YouTube channel:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">An underdog story. A redemption story.<\/p>\n<p>A Rick Barnes Story.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Not About Me premieres 7.30.26 on the Tennessee Athletics YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dUvDt921zn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dUvDt921zn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennessee Basketball (@Vol_Hoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Vol_Hoops\/status\/2080420375658152352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More From RTI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockytopinsider.com\/2026\/07\/23\/tennessee-basketball-practice-notes-and-observations-july-23-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tennessee Basketball Practice Notes And Observations: July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Barnes\u2019 tenure as Tennessee\u2019s head coach, he\u2019s waded in waters no other Vol coach has. Overall, he\u2019s 257-121 (122-73 SEC), leading UT to eight NCAA Tournament appearances, five trips to the Sweet 16 and three straight to the Elite Eight. That makes up three of the four total trips to the Elite Eight in program history.<\/p>\n<p>From a standpoint of SEC success, he has taken home the regular season crown in 2017-18 and 2023-24 and the SEC Tournament title in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Barnes\u2019 squad is preparing for another highly-anticipated season with summer practice underway. The team features 12 newcomers, eight transfers and four freshmen, with expectations of making another deep NCAA Tournament run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been good,\u201d Barnes said on Friday. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely been good progress. I think the guys, each and every day they\u2019ve started to understand more and more what we\u2019re looking for and probably more defensively than anything. And over the last couple of weeks I can see a lot of improvement in that area. And we\u2019ve got today and then one more week before they head out, but up to this point, it\u2019s been a really good summer for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other stops in Barnes\u2019 head coaching career include George Mason, Providence, Clemson and Texas. He holds an 861-435 (.664) record in his career, dating back to the 1987-88 season. He played his college hoops at Lenoir-Rhyne and is from Hickory, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee\u2019s Zakai Zeigler and Rick Barnes embrace after the Vols\u2019 Elite 8 loss to Houston on Sunday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,7926,1919,12161],"class_list":["post-794638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-rick-barnes","tag-tennessee-basketball","tag-tennessee-vols"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116974823881483409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}