Vanderbilt offered Herrmann in September. He visited shortly after that.

Herrmann's not currently a take at Vanderbilt, but that could change before signing day.

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Vanderbilt basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse was ejected in Vanderbilt's 70-65 loss to a suddenly-healthy VCU team. Kevin Ingram walks us through the ejection, the stellar play of Myles Stute and Liam Robbins and more.

8 healthy players and Shea Ralph’s second season is officially derailed. Let’s hope she will evaluate the strength staff and eventually get a full roster of healthy players at some point.

Interested in people’s opinion.

Tight end who played a little this season but didn't have a reception.

I came back into town this year to attend the Wake game. After the game at dinner, I met Justin Ball and his father. It seemed that most of us thought Ball might be moving on after this year, but his father indicated to me that Justin would be returning and that there was no question about that. The Dad was a great dude by the way who also has a son playing at Buffalo. Justin seems like a guy who could take the next step with more playing time. Hope it's true because our TE position seems really thin for next yr.

Lipscomb vs. CPA on now. Vanderbilt commits Junior Sherrill and London Humphreys are both in action. Sherrill with a few nice plays to start the game.

In depth analysis of tonight’s game and extracurriculars, here:
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Assuming that VCU's NET ranking stays in the same range as it's in right now, Vanderbilt will have a quad 1 opportunity tonight in Richmond.

The emphasis point for Stackhouse all week has been handling ball pressure and VCU's defense. VCU loves to attack opposing guards, force turnovers, and try to speed up opposing guards. Once they have to defend in the halfcourt, VCU plays more of a straight up man to man, though. Last year that obviously bothered Vandy in their 37 point performance, but the Commodores seem to think that they'll be in a good spot if they can consistently get VCU into their half-court defense. Stackhouse believes that they're better equipped to handle VCU this year because their primary ballhandler isn't also their leading scorer like last season. The Rams are 31st in defensive efficiency and Stackhouse called them a top 20 defensive group in the country. Vanderbilt has been better offensively as of late, but this one will be a big test for the offense and may be one that Vandy has to win with their defense.

The VCU offense is conducive to that strategy as well. Their offensive x-factor, Ace Baldwin, may miss this one and without him the Rams are 231st in the nation in offensive efficiency. VCU also plays right into Vandy's hands with their 16.8 turnovers per game. The Commodores may try to take advantage of that by pressuring VCU into turnovers as well, getting in transition will be crucial for Vanderbilt because of the way that VCU defends. Getting stops won't be easy but it will certainly be possible. VCU shoots below 40% from the field and below 30% from 3-point range.

This one projects to be another low-scoring contest like it was last season. To come out with a different result, Vanderbilt will have to take care of the ball, get out in transition, and make sure that VCU doesn't have an out of character offensive performances. In all likelihood, this one won't be pretty, but Vanderbilt will have an opportunity to drastically improve their resume because of it.

I'll be covering this one remotely tonight to cap off a triple-header of games worked today. I'm also slated to write about the Lipscomb vs Navy game at 11 and the Lipscomb vs Oakwood women's game at 1:30. Should be a big day.

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More on Vanderbilt's loss to VCU with quotes from Jerry Stackhouse, here:
https://vanderbilt.rivals.com/news/frustration-boils-over-for-vanderbilt-in-loss-to-vcu

Postgame video will be out in a few.

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Harris told me he has an official visit scheduled with Vanderbilt for next weekend, Dec. 9th. He'll also take an official to Missouri the weekend after Vandy. He already took an unofficial to Missouri during the season for, ironically, the Vanderbilt game.

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I caught up with Jaelen Smith. He talks about his Vanderbilt offer and relationship with Alex Bailey.

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Just wondering if the thought was still a full class with several portal options?

While we got some good play from guys whom I wouldn’t have necessarily expected it from still think we need to shoot for 25ish signees and 6-7 portalers if possible.

That VCU game was the worst officiated lopsided game I've seen in many years.

I remember seeing some real stinkers live at memorial......but that game had some incredibly biased calls espically on our bigs.

They called a foul on LR for setting a pick...he just stood there....was set in time and their player bounced off hard....but it was because he just ran into LR...and there were many stupid bad calls. The T was the icing on the cake...worst call ever. I don't think for a second that LR was taunting...obviously saying he got hit in the head....what a joke.

I liked seeing CJS getting on the ref...he deserved it and should have at minimum given cjs something....said something but he just totally ignored him...a good official would have given some explanation...but no....let's let this get way out of hand....the ref was so wrong........... that whole crew sucked.

I just watched the game.

So if this was discussed
...my apologies....just had to get that out there.

I honestly think we will improve a lot during the season....will it be enough make post season? I think that depends on if we can stay healthy and if Jordan Wright gets healthy and decides to play smarter and better....

And he is right on...Really rough night for the upperclassmen. Not much energy. Pretty disappointing.

The freshmen looked nervous but not afraid.

It may be time to go all in on the future. Dia looks like he could be the guy.

Matt Rhule lands in Nebraska on a (reported) 8 year contract. First of the big dominos to fall. He sucked in the Pros and I understand some guys just aren’t cut out for the league, but 8 fully guaranteed years for him is pretty wild.

Serious question. What do we aspire to do? We seem to play tough defense, but on offense I have no idea what we’re trying to run. Is there a system that Stackhouse employs? It’s boring and ineffective. And it certainly doesn’t leverage our players’ skills sets.

If someone is in the know, can you please share?

Bruce Feldman says that Gary Patterson may be interested in the UNLV HC position. Maybe a stretch, but it is possible. He is only 62 and has some fire left in him, and he was a special assistant at UTexas this season. Would make the Vandy - UNLV game next season more interesting.

Anyone remember what the score was when we put a walk on in (I don’t even know his name) and what it was when we came out?