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Other Sports WBB player shortages

Saw this in a Tennessean article. VU is not the only team with a lack of players.

"Vanderbilt isn't the only team with that issue. UConn, Ralph's alma mater, had to postpone a game when it got below the Big East's minimum of seven players, and Arizona State forfeited two games due to lack of healthy players. Texas A&M played South Carolina on Thursday with seven players available."

Basketball Candice Storey Lee in Stackhouse's presser

Not sure how big of news this is or whether this has been reported anywhere but Candice Storey Lee was sitting in the back of Stack's presser after the game yesterday, believe she congratulated him before or after.

Think yesterday is exactly what Stack needed. Vandy had a mostly full, loud crowd along with a ranked win, and the team fought through plenty of adversity behind its veterans. If Stack wants to point to something to show administration he's got this going in the right direction, Satuday's performance is something he could point to.

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Basketball MBB: Minimum record to get an invitation to the NCAA Tournament?

First of all I fully recognize there is no such thing as a minimum record that gets a team an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. Every season is unique. But I thought it might be interesting to look back at Vanderbilt's record the last time we made it to The Big Dance: Bryce Drew's first year here, of course, 2016-17.

The Commodores finished the regular season 10-8 in SEC play and 17-14 overall. Some pundits said that nothing short of an SEC Tournament title would relegate us to the NIT, because no team had ever lost 15 games and received an at-large bid. Not so fast my friend. The Commodores beat AM and Florida, before losing to Arkansas in the semi-finals for our 15th loss of the season. Not only did VU get into the NCAA Tournament with those 15 Ls, they made it comfortably as a 9 seed.

It was an interesting year which included getting our hats handed to us by MTSU in the Murphy Center, losing to UT here but beating them in Thompson-Bowling, and surviving a streak of five conference loses in six games in January.

Anyway, I digress. We are currently sitting at 2-2 in SEC play and 9-8 overall. If we go 8-6 the rest of the way in the SEC we would finish with a 17-14 record overall, 10-8 in the conference. Which we all know would guarantee us absoltely nothing. But, any chance we can go 8-6 the rest of the way to make things interesting?

  • Poll
Basketball Who would you vote Vanderbilt’s best Center during the 2000s?

Best Vanderbilt Center during 2000s

  • Liam Robbins

    Votes: 12 9.4%
  • Damian Jones

    Votes: 18 14.2%
  • Festus Ezeli

    Votes: 32 25.2%
  • AJ Ogilvy

    Votes: 46 36.2%
  • Ross Neltner

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Josh Henderson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Luke Kornet

    Votes: 36 28.3%

A lot of great Centers at Vanderbilt - - let’s keep this restricted to college performance not NBA
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