Just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to Coach Stackhouse and the players for bringing fans back to Memorial. And not just fans but stand up and yell fans--something that has been missing for a long time. It has been great to be able to really look forward to attending a Vandy basketball game again.

Anyone have tickets that they aren’t using for Tuesday?

You've seen it happen before: A team gets hot and plays its way onto the bubble just as the regular season is drawing to a close. But you've probably never seen it happen the way Vanderbilt has done it. The Commodores are 8-1 over their past nine games. The one loss didn't come against Auburn or Tennessee or at Kentucky, however. No, the defeat happened at LSU. To top it off, Jerry Stackhouse's team won the season finale at home against Mississippi State while playing without leading scorer Liam Robbins (who is out for the season with a leg injury). Congratulations, Vanderbilt. You're on the bubble, and you did it your way. (updated March 4)

I spent $120 on Buttplug V gear for my family. I don’t know how I feel about it.

Other than that, I couldn’t be more proud of this team and yes, this coach. Jerry Stackhouse has done some incredible things with this group of guys. He deserves to be in the conversation for SEC Coach of the Year.

I almost doubt he has any haters left on this board. If so, they’re not Vandy basketball fans.

Get to Bridgestone Thursday, brothers and sisters.

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Memphis. Tourney Team
Southern Miss. Tourney Team.
Saint Mary's. Tourney Team.
VCU. Tourney Team.
Grambling. Tourney Team.
NC State. Tourney Team.
Mizzou. Tourney Team.
UTjr. Tourney Team.
Alabama (x2). Tourney Team.
Kentucky. Tourney Team.
A&M. Tourney Team.
and LSU. Not Tourney Team.

We've literally had 1 loss to a team not in the field of 68. If that isn't more important than a computer, I don't know what is..

Wild ugly game. Technicals / Rougj play/ ejections/ etc.

What happens when you don’t call fouls in paint or on perimeter and you let teams grab/hold/push all over and then you get a player losing his cool.

And crowd is just all over the officials.

Officials have to call these pushes grabbing holding early and tell the players can’t play like that.

The 92-93 team

Arizona State at Southern Cal
Auburn at Tennessee
Boise State at Utah State (elimination game)
Clemson vs. Notre Dame
Iowa State at Baylor
Memphis vs Houston
Michigan at Indiana
North Carolina vs. Duke
Oklahoma State at Texas Tech (elimination game)
Penn State vs. Maryland
Rutgers vs. Northwestern
Wisconsin at Minnesota

Mississippi State at Vanderbilt (elimination game)

Its really amazing to me how you finish a season isn't supposedly even a factor. I mean, college teams change so much from the beginning to end, they start with typically new players, new rosters, so it can take time to gell, figure out rotations, etc. I don't think this is the end all be all and you should throw out the beginning, again its just another of many factors, but not a factor at all. If you truly want to take the best 68 teams, how can teams that just do terrible down the stretch be given strong consideration. Look at how some of these teams are currenlty finishing up (unless they go on a good run in their conf tourneys):

Iowa St: 2-8 (Lost 4 in a row, 6 of last 7 and 8 of last 10, now their two wins were home wins over Kansas and TCU, but this inlcudes home losses to 2 of the bottom 4 teams in the B12)

Auburn: 3-8 (Lost 2 in a row, 6 of last 8 and 8 of last 11, wins during that stretch were all home wins, Missouri, Georgia and Ole Miss, so 2 of the bottom 4 wins. Prior to that their previous 2 wins were LSU and SC, so they are 5-8 last 13, with 4 of those 5 wins coming vs bottom 4 teams in SEC, and how are they in ?????) ** I'll also admit, outside the drubbing at KY they have lost a lot of nail biters including where they didn't seem to get a good whistle so they could easily be 8-3 down the stretch**

Wisconsin: 5-11 (some will say they have righted ship as they have went 4-5 the last 9, but not really, they've lost 2 in a row, 8 of last 12 and 11 of last 16, really after looking at this hard to feel they are a tourney team, this is a long, bad stretch)

Rutgers: 2-5 (Includes home loss to Nebraska and road loss to an 7-20 Minnesota before the loss, two wins were over bubble teams Penn St and Wisconsin, last win over I guess solid tourney team was 2/4 over Michigan St)

Oklahoma St: 0-5 (now, no what I'd call bad losses, but lost 3 home games and the two roadies were vs 2 of bottom 3 teams in league not counting themselves)

New Mexico 2-6 (includes losses at 14-16 Air Force and home loss to 8-20 Wyoming, wins were at an ok San Jose ST team and 9-19 Fresno St)

Northwestern 0-3 (Normally I wouldn't put 3 losses in a row here and was playing well before this 3 game slide, but big road game vs Rutgers to avoid losing four in a row and putting them in real danger of being 0-5 their last 5 going into the selection, so a team to watch)

Conversely there are some teams finishing strong, VU among those, will see if that makes any difference or not.

You can’t make this stuff up. Amazing.

Deserves to be playing in the Big Dance. Very few teams are playing better basketball than Vandy. 11 wins in conference? 100% deserved for the bid

Was LOCK-CITY. Let’s say we beat LSU or Georgia. At that point we’ve won 12 (TWELVE!) SEC games. I guess we’ll have to beat Kentucky again.

MSST loses tonight.

Assuming VU wins one in the SECT, and MSU and Arky don’t make any sort of run(go one and one or worse) how in Gods name does either team get in over VU?

Just makes no sense.

State champ.


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What a game!

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Vandy +118 on the ML.

Losing by 30 points to North Texas. Sat out nine games earlier in the season for health related issues. Returned February 1. Has yet to take WKU to the NCAA Tournament, and while he enjoyed great regular season success at Mississippi State the Bulldogs never advanced to the Sweet 16. Winning games in the NCAA Tournament is not easy.

Got two tickets for tonight. Something with the family “nothing major” came up and can’t go. Free for the first to post under the tread.

Things will be finalized tonight. Vanderbilt can get as high as the four seed and as low as the sixth seed.

A Vanderbilt win and losses by UT, Mizzou, and Kentucky would get it into the four seed. To get the five seed would either take a Mizzou loss or a Kentucky and Tennessee loss if Mizzou wins.

A Vanderbilt loss puts it in the six seed no matter what.

If Vanderbilt is the six seed it will face the winner of Georgia and LSU, both teams are locked into the seeds they're currently in. If Vanderbilt wins that game it will play the three seed which would be Kentucky if it beats Arkansas. Mizzou if Kentucky loses and it wins. Tennessee if it wins and Kentucky and Mizzou lose.