Tony Barbee College coach

Tony Barbee (born August 10, 1971) is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach at Auburn University. Barbee played college basketball for the University of Massachusetts under Coach John Calipari. Barbee later served as an assistant under Calipari at Memphis and often cited Calipari as his mentor. Barbee had previously coached at UTEP. On March 24, 2010, Barbee was named the new head coach at Auburn University, becoming Auburn's first African-American head coach in a major sport. Barbee was fired on March 12, 2014 after four years on the job. On Aug. 1, 2014, he was hired as special assistant to the head coach at University of Kentucky under Calipari.