Tennessee State Tigers basketball
The school's team currently competes in the NCAA Division I's Ohio Valley Conference.They play their home games at the Gentry Complex and are led by sixth-year head coach Brian "Penny" Collins.[3] Hunter still holds the record as the second-winningest men's basketball coach in Tennessee State's history.Since joining Division I, Tennessee State has appeared twice in the NCAA Tournament, most recently in 1994.Seventeen former Tennessee State Tigers have played in the NBA; the best known are Ben Warley, Robert Covington, Dick Barnett, John Barnhill, Truck Robinson, Anthony Mason and Carlos Rogers.