John Barnes - Class of 2020

(Escanaba)

Currently women’s basketball coach at Youngstown State University, Barnes has an overall 260-142 record, including 104-87 with the Division I Horizon League Penguins since 2013. He was 156-55 at Michigan Tech (2003-10) while building the Huskies into one of the premier programs in NCAA Division II. The former Tech cager led the Huskies into the Division II postseason five times and won three GLIAC titles. He was GLIAC coach of the year his final three seasons and in his final two seasons guided Tech to the NCAA D-2 Elite Eight. He was also an assistant women’s coach at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a men’s assistant at Tech and Lake Superior State University. Barnes was an All-U.P. cager at Escanaba, scoring 1,048 points, and played four seasons at Tech. He was also a player-coach for St. Nicolai Basketball Club in Denmark. (1996-97).