REPORT: Tony Barbee leaving Kentucky to become Central Michigan head coach

LEXINGTON, Ky (WTVQ) – Multiple reports are that UK Men’s Basketball Assistant Coach Tony Barbee has been named the new head coach at Central Michigan.

Tony Barbee completed his seventh season with the Kentucky men’s basketball program and his first as the associate to the head coach in 2020-21. He served the previous five seasons as an assistant coach and was the special assistant to the head coach in his first season at UK, in 2014-15.

Before coming to Kentucky, Barbee was the head coach at UTEP and Auburn.