Rod Barnes

Rod Barnes
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Cal State-Bakersfield
Record	5-6
Biographical details
Born	January 8, 1966 (1966-01-08)
Playing career
1985–1988	Mississippi
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1990–1993 1993–1998 1998–2006 2006–2007 2007–2011 2011-Present	Livingston (asst.) Mississippi (asst.) Mississippi Oklahoma (asst.) Georgia State Cal State-Bakersfield
Head coaching record
Overall	196–196 (.500)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards Naismith College Coach of the Year (2001) SEC Coach of the Year (2001)

Rod Barnes (born January 8, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and current head coach of the Cal State Bakersfield Men's Basketball program. He previously served as head coach for the Georgia State University men's basketball team of the NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association. Barnes was also head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Mississippi.

Playing and early coaching career

Barnes played college basketball at the University of Mississippi of the NCAA Division I's Southeastern Conference from 1985 to 1988. He earned All-SEC and All-America honorable mention honors in 1988. Barnes earned his Business Administration degree in 1989 and left Ole Miss to become an assistant coach at Livingston University in 1990. In 1993, Barnes returned to Ole Miss to serve as an assistant coach to Rob Evans. Barnes helped coach Ole Miss to consecutive 20-win seasons and NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship berths in 1997 and 1998.

Head coaching career

When Rob Evans departed for Arizona State University in 1998, Barnes was promoted to head coach of Ole Miss. Barnes coached them for eight seasons, building a 141–109 record. He was named the 2001 Naismith College Coach of the Year and the 2001 SEC Coach of the Year after leading Ole Miss to a school-record 27-win season in 2000–01 which included a trip to the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. Barnes was fired at Ole Miss after the 2005–06 season in which Ole Miss started 13–3 but lost 13 of their last 14 games. Barnes served as an assistant coach at the University of Oklahoma during the 2006–07 season.

On March 19, 2007, Barnes was hired as the head coach of the men's basketball team at Georgia State University of the NCAA Division I's Colonial Athletic Association. On February 26, 2011, it was announced that Barnes would not return as head coach at Georgia State. [1] On March 30th, 2011 Rod Barnes was named head men's basketball coach at Cal State Bakersfield.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Ole Miss (Southeastern Conference) (1998–2006)
1998–1999	Ole Miss	20–13	8–8	T–3rd (West)	NCAA 2nd Round
1999–2000	Ole Miss	19–14	5–11	T–5th (West)	NIT Quarterfinals
2000–2001	Ole Miss	27–8	11–5	1st (West)	NCAA Sweet 16
2001–2002	Ole Miss	20–11	9–7	3rd (West)	NCAA 1st Round
2002–2003	Ole Miss	14–15	4–12	T–5th (West)
2003–2004	Ole Miss	13–15	5–11	T–4th (West)
2004–2005	Ole Miss	14–17	4–12	T–5th (West)
2005–2006	Ole Miss	14–16	4–12	T–5th (West)
Ole Miss:		141–109	50–78
Georgia State (Colonial Athletic Association) (2007–present)
2007–2008	Georgia State	9–21	5–13	12th
2008–2009	Georgia State	12–20	8–10	8th
2009–2010	Georgia State	12–20	5–13	9th
2010–2011	Georgia State	11–18	6–12	9th
Georgia State:		44–79	24–48
[Cal St. Bakersfield]] () (2011–present)
2011–2012	Cal St. Bakersfield	11–9	0–0
Total:		196–196
National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion       Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference division champion