Rick Barnes was met with resistance when he wanted to take Zakai Zeigler out of the game Tuesday night at Florida. Never mind that No. 1 Tennessee was limping to the finish line in a 30-point loss.
The senior point guard doesn’t give up easily.
“He didn’t want to come out of the game,” Barnes said Saturday night after Tennessee’s 74-70 bounce-back win at Texas . “He just said, ‘Coach, I’m not quitting.’ We were down whatever, 30, whatever it was.”…