How many of you thought that we would go full prevent defense after we took the lead? Raise your hand if you did. Mine is raised....

Big balls Clark Lea is obviously a learning creature, and remembered last year against South Carolina, because he rushed 4 or 5 on every play on Kentucky's last drive. And we won!

Again, great game and congratulations HCCL, and Anchor Down!⚓️👇

The entire Athletic Department needed that desperately. The Gym was a morgue Friday night. That was big today.

Anchor the hell Down!!

Great win guys!!!

We beat those damn Cats!!!

Ranked road SEC win!!!

Stack still sucks!!

Great day guys and girls, enjoy!

His classes from 2019 to 2021 were awful and most of these guys are gone. As I recall both Pippen and Disu were Drew recruits. 21 was a total bust!

Looking back both Stallings and Drew recruited at a much higher level. On paper Stackhouse should be able to recruit extremely well given his NBA and UNC backgrounds but he gets an F.

This year was possibly a step in the right direction but too little too late.

Apparently Candice overlooked this when she extended his contract (prematurely in my opinion)

Big win for Temple, so big the fans stormed the court twice. Telling info in the next to last paragraph as two Villanova starters did not play. Nice W for the Owls though.

I once saw Brentwood HS host Ravenwood and the fans from both schools wound up storming the court. The Bruins fans did so at the (seemingly) end of regulation, but alas the BHS coach had called a time out before his team hit what we all thought was the game winning field goal. Home team fans stormed the court. Had to doit over, and in OT the Ravenwood fans got to storm the court after a win. For real.

No more needs to be said

I will just leave it to him to either talk me off the ledge or….well….I just want the truth. It is interesting to me we have a former NBA multi-championship winning alumnus - - high level stuff, big name, SEC POY etc. And he is a peer to CJS and actually was a seasoned starter for the Bulls by the time CJS entered the NBA. Both either conference all-stars or POY and both played many years in the NBA. Not sure if CJS has a ring but Perdue has FOUR. Why isn’t he calling the shots for the hoops program?

Not sure how the season will end. However, I believe we should move on from Stackhouse if we don’t make the NCAAT this season. I like Stackhouse and want badly to really really like him but if we can’t break through this season I just don’t think he will make it happen. We will have this hoops mega project breaking ground and should be able to attract a very very high level coach.

Stackhouse doesn’t have what it takes. He is just kind of a prima donna and cares more about having female assistant coaches than getting to work and winning games.

So we have:
Manjon/Lewis/Shelby
Lawrence/TT/Dorsey
Wright/Smith/Dia
Stute/Dort
Robbins/QMB

I’m actually liking our flexibility and our front court but we are missing a big shooting guard in a bad way. Hope Dorsey takes a big leap forward.

Link to my video recap of Vandy’s disappointing loss to Southern Miss, here:

Vandy Vs Southern Miss Game recap

They play hard and they’re much better coached. It’s fun to watch a team that knows what they’re doing. I was a stack fan but after four years his time should be up.

Dear Kevin, please come back, I'm sorry for bad mouthing you and calling you bad names.. come on and put ur foot up some behinds...

Signed, Ex Vandy Basketball fan

Forget this basketball game. We kick off in Lexington in about 12 hours. Though not likely, it represents what may be our last legitimate chance to get an SEC football win until we see Kentucky again next September. Hoping for Bad Will Levis. He’s shown up a bunch this season - but so had Bad Spencer Rattler before last week. (I don’t even think there’s such thing as Good Spencer Rattler except for one Saturday a year…last Saturday). Carry on. Beat the Wildcats.

Avenged a 2019 ncaa loss to Clemson by beating them today 1-0 in the 1st round of the ncaas. Keep it going!!

(And I'd address it there but I can't seem to easily find it, so I'll do it here.)

Someone asked me a question to the effect of what the problem is with this team. I want to be clear that this is entirely a speculative guess but I wonder if there's something to this.

Before the year, someone who knows that program really well commented that the team had four scoring point guards and that could be tough to manage.

Well, let's take a look at where things are. This team has four scoring point guards getting minutes, with the highest-regarded one out of high school getting the fewest minutes.

This team also struggles to shoot--41% from the field, 29% from 3--and has almost no offensive presence in the post.

In the midst of this, one interesting thing is happening: Scotty Pippen Jr. has gone from being a fringe Power 5 prospect to a pop-up NBA prospect.

And with all those other dynamics in the background, Pippen now has the second-highest usage rate in the country. (And FWIW, McBride has a 25% usage rate in limited time, which is second on the team.)

I'm not throwing stones at Pippen here; I think he's really talented. I just see a roster that's cobbled together (with the exception of Disu, who's talented but clearly not "there" yet) with those two and a bunch of role players, and someone has to take the shots.

I just think this all seems like a really tough dynamic to manage and there aren't a lot of good answers.

Again, just a theory.

Update on Dan Jackson situation
As noted, Dan agreed to step away for a moment until university review
That’s the university process for looking at discrimination
Candice and Dan agreed it’s best to step away to focus on the review and resolving this matter
He’s stepping away until the investigation is complete

Who’s coaching corners?
Nick Howell
Jimmy Thompson’s stepped into a role, he’s Howell’s assistant
They’ll move forward without disruption that way

Would he have suspended him for the SC game if he had a chance to do it over?
As soon as they became aware of the situation they started the review
They didn’t want to rush to judgment
At that point they felt giving Dan due process and taking their time through it was appropriate
That’s impacted members of their community and created some emotions around it
For them it was a matter of going through their process and making sure they gave Dan a shot to go through the process also

It’s a large program with staff and 100+ players, where’s the locker room?
We spend ridiculous amounts of time together
They talk about football being family
They’re about intentional relationships
The players support Dan
They understand the weight of the situation
But they also have a lot of respect for the coach and value the relationship
This morning in practice it looked like a normal Tuesday
These guys are resilient and that’s been impressive
We’ll make it through this and the players will too but that’s not to say it’s tough

The game vs. SC/KY
Disappointing, they wanted better
Spirited Tuesday practice
Kentucky has modeled its program the way they want to, they win consistently and compete in all three phases
Tough task ahead, excited for the opportunity

AJ Swann
He’ll be okay
Not available this week
They’ll keep tabs on him and can get him back

Seals
He’s the No. 2
He’ll get practice reps
They’ve gone to the 2 in critical moments
Ken’s played a lot of football for them
He’ll be ready and excited to do what the team needs him to do

Mike Wright
He’s handled the season well
He’s a captain for a reason

Consistent in his approach
Hasn’t let personal disappointment bleed into being a teammate
Vs. SC, they turned the ball over late, he had some bright moments there
He’s been a playmaker for them
Excited for the opportunity to lead him in the SEC

Bradley Ashmore
Out for the season
Tough enough to play a game even though he had surgery coming
Ashmore got hurt Wednesday, they knew it was a fracture that needed to be addressed, he wasn’t able to practice Thursday or Friday

How does it feel when a player chooses to play in a spot like that?
It speaks to what they’re trying to build
They have to play better
They have to turn the ball over and capitalize on opportunities
Said they had some shots to win Saturday and couldn’t do that, if they made the plays they play football better
But the team has shown a fight and resilience and their focus is helping the players play better
It’s where they are in building the program

Xavier Castillo
Not available this week
Not season ending

Daevion Davis
Practiced today
They’re starting the process of getting him ready to play
His presence is felt on the sideline and with the team

Any chance we see guys for the first time this week
Cole Spence played special teams for the first time last week
They’re dealing with illness and injuries, etc.

On illness
They’re dealing with the flu
They’re better-positioned right now, he checks his messages every day to see who’s there and who’s coming out

Do you encourage your players to get flu shots?
They do
They have opportunities in bye weeks and he got one then
But there are variations and strands
They’re masking in meetings to prevent the spread
Doing everything they can to get well

More on Vandy’s loss, here: https://vanderbilt.rivals.com/news/vanderbilt-hoops-remains-winless-after-underwhelming-loss

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The man is an absolute genius. You would never believe this team spent two weeks together playing basketball in Europe. They play like they’ve never seen each other before.

Start the four freshmen!

Fire Candice. That’s the real problem.

Not sure where Vegas came up with that number.

Also, wasn’t Austin Crowley committed to us in the class with Disu and Pippen back in the day? He looks pretty good in early action.

Facts:

This is Stack’s first year of 100% his players.
Stack’s 4th Year
We just gave him an extension
We just lost at home to a team that was picked last in its league
We lost to a team that was a 17 point underdog to us. (Is that a record?)
We can’t blame it on injuries (see Darius)

Opinion:

This is the least talented roster that stack has had in his four years.
I do not see the light at the end of the tunnel. We had three years of a coaching staff that could recruit but could not coach. Now we have had four years of a coach who can’t recruit.

We will be lucky to not be playing on Wednesday of the SEC tournament.

Time to move on in a different direction. It is one thing to be bad in football but there is absolutely no reason/excuse to be bad in basketball.

This game might be an all time low for me and I have been coming to games since the 80s!!

I was hoping this team could score without SPJ, but this team of role players can't throw it in the ocean so far.

I'm having to listen on the radio, can't find it on TV, but we sound pretty terrible on offense in the first half down 17.