Vanderbilt basketball may have hit a home run with its hire of coach Mark Byington. Byington, in his first season after being hired from James Madison, has already re-energized the Commodores ...

Mark Byington feels like he's supposed to hate Rick Barnes. After all, Byington coaches Vanderbilt basketball and Barnes coaches Tennessee. The two teams are hated rivals. But when Byington first ...

Barnes adopted that practice, which led him to call Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington after he was hired in March. "That always meant something to me so when new guys come into the league ...