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Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment Vanderbilt bowling is currently competing in the Conference USA Bowling Championship starting at 9 AM CT, which you can watch on ESPN+. And! Speaking of women’s bowling, men’s basketball beat Southland member McNeese State 78-68 yesterday for its first NCAA Tournament win since 2012, setting up a women’s bowling-themed grudge […]
Vanderbilt advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2012, and per CBS Sports’s Matt Norlander, the Commodores’ second-round game against Nebraska will tip off late on Saturday: After landing in the afternoon window for the first round, things flip for the second round: the two evening winners in […]
Pregame reading: Yep, we’re back. Have fun in the game thread. For those of us with real jobs, hopefully you, like me, have a screen at work you can use to watch the game.
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment (Yep, had to get in the reference to Lake Charles, Louisiana. Home of today’s opponent.) Vanderbilt bowling swept Tulane on Wednesday to advance in the Conference USA tournament. That means they won’t play again on Friday against one of Arkansas State, Wichita State, or Youngstown State. Hail Pinman. And I […]
The School: McNeese State University. Founded in 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College, then renamed a year later to John McNeese Junior College. John McNeese, per Wikipedia, was the first superintendent of schools of Imperial Calcasieu Parish, which apparently gets a university named for you in southwest Louisiana. Around here you have to build an […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment You know what time it is. Time for the Conference USA Bowling Championships. Hail Pinman. Vanderbilt is the #2 seed in the tournament behind top-seeded hated rival Jacksonville State (who only wishes they were McKendree, but stole their coach and all their players.) The Commodores open the event today facing […]
With the Madness tipping off tonight — yes, the First Four counts, regardless of what the guy running your office pool says when he tells you that the deadline to submit your bracket is Thursday morning — we’re looking at FanDuel odds for the tournament and having a few thoughts. Remember: if you bet actual […]
2pm CT on SECN+. On the Mound Tuesday @ 2:00pm SECN+ Vanderbilt #77 Jr. RHP Alex “The Kranz” Kranzler (1-2; 9.49 ERA) vs. Indiana #28 Grad LHP Conner “Linnsanity” Linn (0-0; 9.28 ERA) Pitchers’ duel! The Lineup See you in the comments.
Fanduel sponsored. As you well know, the #5 vs. #12 matchup has effectively been a toss-up over the years, but with Vanderbilt being quite obviously under-seeded, how will that show up in the opening odds? Fanduel’s Betting Odds The Shooty Dores are heavily favored in this one, giving -11.5 points and -750 on the money […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment Vanderbilt baseball hosts Indiana today at 2 PM CT on SEC Network+, a game moved up due to freezing temperatures tonight. The Commodores are coming off taking 2 of 3 from LSU over the weekend. After that, tonight begins the NCAA Tournament with two of the First Four matchups. I’ll […]
Yep, it’s that time of year again, and unlike in years past, you don’t have to be a complete homer to pick Vanderbilt to win! Sign up for the Anchor of Gold Bracket Challenge at ESPN. The rules are: Anyway, just do it.
Somehow, a line buried in a statement from Oklahoma coach Porter Moser about accepting an invitation to the College Basketball Crown — the joke of a tournament in Las Vegas that’s decided to compete with the NIT for no particular reason, because what everybody was of course demanding was a lame version of the NIT […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment The brackets are out, and Vanderbilt’s men’s and women’s basketball teams are both playing. The men’s team lost 86-75 to Arkansas in the finals of the SEC Tournament, and then probably got underseeded as a 5-seed and got sent to Oklahoma City, where they’ll play 12-seed McNeese on Thursday at […]
Well, the bracket is out, and Vanderbilt is… the 5-seed in the South Regional. The Commodores will head to Oklahoma City for their first and, we can only hope, second round games and, if they get past that, Houston for the regionals. They drew McNeese as their first-round opponent, and that game will tip off […]
The women, who have been ranked in the top 7 the entire second half of the season, have finally learned where they slot into things. Here’s the rundown (Central Time; will update as I get more info): NASHVILLE March 20/21 @ TIME: 15 High Point March 22/23 @ TIME: 7 Illinois/10 Colorado FORT WORTH March […]
3pm CT on ESPN2. Bring brooms. While Saturday’s game was certainly less of an emotional rollercoaster, it was also the Emily Dickinson Velociraptor this season has so needed. Hope, I’m talking. That feathered beast. It gave me hope for postseason baseball from this squad. Oh, and for those who don’t get the reference, or worse, […]
Today at noon, Vanderbilt plays for the SEC basketball championship, tournament edition. This is actually only the third time Vanderbilt has ever made it to the championship game, and the Commodores have never lost — beating Kentucky in the final in both 1951 and 2012. So for the first time, Vanderbilt will play somebody other […]
Selection Sunday is here, and for the first time since probably 2012… we’re not sweating at all. Vanderbilt, with a 26-7 record, could of course make it academic by winning the SEC’s automatic bid this afternoon. But even if the Commodores fall into the at-large pool, the Bracket Matrix has us as a 4-seed as […]
7pm CT on SEC Network. Yesterday’s game put us all in a glass case of emotion, as Vanderbilt pitchers tried their damnedest to walk, bean, and wild pitch their way out of a 10-4 lead, but Johnstone the Elder tanked a moonshot to walk us off into the win column 13-12. Today, we go for […]
Vanderbilt has already matched the 2011-12 team with 25 wins this season and can make it 26 with a win today over Florida. That would tie the 2007-08 team for the second most wins in school history, behind only the 1992-93 team. Of course, Florida’s going to be tough. The Gators have won 12 in […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment Yesterday, Vanderbilt basketball finished off Tennessee 75-68 to beat them for the second time in a row, behind 30 points from Duke Miles. They’ll play Florida today at noon CT on ESPN. Joe Lunardi’s latest bracket, though, still has Vanderbilt as a 5-seed. Baseball beat LSU 13-12 on Logan Johnstone’s […]
6pm CT SECN+. Safe to say there haven’t been many years this century where the Diamond Dores and Gumbo Bengals had a combined 12 losses before the start of conference play, but both teams are noticeably weaker than normal as LSU (13-5) visits VU (11-7) this weekend to drink Nashville dry. Even stranger, the defending […]
Yesterday was torture, with Tennessee playing Auburn, between wanting Auburn to lose because I absolutely do not want a team with such a mediocre record to make the NCAA Tournament, and wanting Tennessee to lose because they’re Tennessee. Anyway, Auburn lit itself on fire midway through the second half with a 12-point lead and we […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment Vanderbilt basketball opens SEC Tournament play today and the opponent will be Tennessee, for the third time this season and the first time since… last Saturday in the regular season finale. Tennessee was the beneficiary of Auburn lighting itself on fire yesterday afternoon, and now, the Vols and Commodores will […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment Vanderbilt lacrosse lost 8-7 to Coastal Carolina on Wednesday at FirstBank Stadium, which… they’re playing at FirstBank Stadium now? Oh, yeah, but Vanderbilt also released renderings for the upgraded Soccer/Lacrosse Complex yesterday, as well as the new football center. Yesterday at the SEC Tournament: Kentucky, Auburn, Ole Miss, and Oklahoma […]