The Unofficial Vanderbilt Commodores Blog * Now With Fewer Law Degrees!
The most annoying arena in the SEC, where in addition to being a house of horrors, your senses will be overwhelmed with light shows and sound effects that make the viewing experience crap. Anyway, instead of a DJ playing rap music, I choose something much more refined.
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Vanderbilt’s two-game losing streak after opening the season 16-0 doesn’t concern me. The Commodores had an uncharacteristic poor shooting night last Wednesday night in Austin, which doesn’t concern me for the simple reason that “sometimes, the shots don’t fall.” They then got jobbed by the refs in a four-point loss to Florida over the weekend. […]
about 11 hours ago | 0 reads
We gotta prove it here. We don’t get a slip up if we want to stay in the hunt for a 1-seed.
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Hello, a new college basketball point-shaving scandal just dropped. This might be the stupidest scheme I have ever heard of, and remember what I do for a living. So basically: some gamblers decided that they’d go fix some college basketball games, bribed players at the low end of Division I (and DePaul, apparently) to go […]
5 days ago | 0 reads
School record! We are more winninging than we’ve ever wonned! I may still be without a laptop and my phone may still be broken but at least Vandy basketball is here to bring me joy!
5 days ago | 1 read
So far, the SEC hasn’t been able to slow down Vanderbilt, either. Vanderbilt extended its record to 16-0 against LSU on Saturday, an 84-73 result that wasn’t really as close as that score made it look: the Commodores got up by 20 in the first half and coasted, with LSU never getting the score closer […]
6 days ago | 2 reads
We just keep right on winning! We beat LSU in a back-and-forth contest that caused many a childish eruption from Kim Mulkey, then followed it up with a beatdown of Missouri where we learned that this team looks good even when Blakes is playing badly (yes, she ended the game with 20, but 12 of […]
9 days ago | 1 read
Vanderbilt still hasn’t lost a basketball game this season, still true after Wednesday night’s game against Alabama when many trolls from other SEC schools thought Vanderbilt would be exposed as frauds. Relatively speaking, today’s game against LSU is a breather. LSU is 12-3, but has opened SEC play 0-2 including a 10-point home loss to […]
11 days ago | 0 reads
So, this game seems big, doesn’t it? The “Vandy hasn’t played anybody” line should have been put to rest this week with UCF and SMU both entering the top 25. Beating Alabama… well, that would cement it. It would also put Vandy at 15-0. Let’s do it.
13 days ago | 0 reads
14-1 (0-1) AP/Coaches: 5/5 Creme: 2-seed NET: 5 January 4, 2026 4:00PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium ESPN | Radio Call | Live Stats 14-0 (1-0) AP/Coaches: 12/11 Creme: 3-seed NET: 13 This is it. Our first test of the season and Shea Ralph’s first real opportunity on West End to prove we are a contender. […]
16 days ago | 1 read
Vanderbilt got through its nonconference schedule with a 13-0 record, and as of now they have four Quad 1 wins over Saint Mary’s, SMU, Wake Forest, and UCF. Today… does not represent an opportunity to add to that total. Those will come later in SEC play, but Vanderbilt’s SEC opener is at South Carolina, who’s […]
17 days ago | 1 read
13-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 12/11 Creme: 3-seed NET: 13 January 1, 2026 1:00PM CT at Bud Walton Arena SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 11-4 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR Creme: NR NET: 101 We enter conference play undefeated for the first time since 1995-96 with a chance to tie the second-best start to a season in […]
19 days ago | 1 read
And here we are. Vanderbilt caps off the first 10-win season in school history with today’s bowl game, the Outback Bowl (no, I’m not going to call it the ReliaQuest Bowl) in Tampa, Florida, against the Iowa Hawkeyes. This is Vanderbilt’s first bowl game in Florida since the 1955 Gator Bowl; in the intervening time […]
21 days ago | 1 read
Of the non-CFP bowls so far, the staff is 10-8. We were 8-16 in the CFP games. The standings also got shaken up as Andrew got a game up on the field and Cole jumped into a tie for 2nd with Import. Tom is making a last gasp towards .500 while I missed the chance […]
21 days ago | 1 read
Vanderbilt comes back from Christmas break to close out its nonconference schedule against New Haven. Did you know there was a University of New Haven? Of course you did, it’s called Yale. Okay, okay, this is a different University of New Haven. New Haven is in its first year in Division I. They’re 5-7, but […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question from Kslaught: Iowa does appear to have a good defense. Teams like this have given us some problems this year. Will we be able to score on them enough to win? Answers from AoG: PatrickSawyer: Vanderbilt is the 8th highest scoring offense in the […]
23 days ago | 0 reads
Post VANDERBILT Football and/or SEC Football questions in the comments here. Like many of you, I’ll be heading down to Tampa—despite my intense hatred of all things Jorts—to watch Diego and the Boys’ Last Stand (Dirty Mike can’t come). We’re playing Iowa, so they’ll try to win a race to 0-0, while we’ll go for […]
27 days ago | 1 read
A recurring theme on Twitter lately has been fans of other SEC schools discounting Vanderbilt basketball — currently undefeated and ranked 11th in the AP Poll, 8th in KenPom, and 6th in the NCAA’s NET rankings, higher than any other SEC team in all three — because of its nonconference schedule. This is one of […]
28 days ago | 0 reads
Well, it was ugly, but Vanderbilt managed to survive a trip to Memphis on Wednesday. And now comes the second-to-last basketball game of 2025, with Vanderbilt crossing over the Blue Ridge today and going to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where our old gold and black friends from the ACC are 9-3 under sixth-year head coach Steve […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
So yesterday, in the College Football Playoff, Tulane lost to Ole Miss 41-10 and James Madison lost to Oregon 51-34. Let’s be clear: Vanderbilt is the little guy and always will be. Our conference membership means we’re technically aligned with the “big boys” but no, we’re not. If you are taking the Alabama/Texas side of […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
0-7 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR NET: 317 Creme: Out December 20, 2025 1:00PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 11-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 13/11 Creme: 3-seed Oops! Look, it’s the holidays. I didn’t think we would be playing Albany (who we nearly doubled up) so soon after USF. Anyways, Texas Southern is […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
Andrew finally caught Import, who has stumbled the last 2 weeks. Nobody did spectacularly well, but Cole, Tom, Andrew, and you NERDS all were 5-3. I was on the opposite side of that coin at 3-5. Import was a disappointing 2-6. Christian was an abysmal 1-7. Overall, the staff went 21-27. Overall, we are still […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Vanderbilt looks to make it 11 straight wins to open the 2025-26 season as they head three hours down I-40 to Memphis tonight. Memphis State is a disappointment early this season, with a 4-5 record and most recently losing 99-73 at Louisville on Saturday. Then again, there’s always talent there so you never know when […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
6-4 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR NET: 69 Creme: Out December 15, 2025 7:30PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 9-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 15/14 Creme: 4-seed The SEC won the SEC/ACC Challenge 13-3 because it just means more, but it meant the most to Mikayla Blakes, who SEC Network selected as the […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Remember when the Heisman ceremony used to be appointment viewing? Ah, the 2000s. These days I have to Google to even know what time the ceremony is on (6 PM CT, on ABC.) Also, remember when the Heisman ceremony every year would invite four generic quarterbacks and pick one of them? Well, this year, Diego […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads