NCAA Tournament March Madness

#13 Vanderbilt

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Projected seed: 4

Vanderbilt’s résumé is built on eye-catching wins away from home and at neutral events, with road victories at Memphis and Wake Forest and neutral-site triumphs over VCU and Saint Mary’s, plus statement home wins over Alabama and LSU that show the team can beat quality opponents. Those highs are tempered by ugly road defeats at Texas and Arkansas and a damaging home loss to Florida that a committee will treat as clear blemishes. The Commodores have demonstrated they can win in hostile environments and still have meaningful opportunities remaining against Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Auburn and Mississippi on both home floor and true road sites. Securing some of those results will elevate the profile substantially while continued slip-ups will leave the earlier bad losses defining the resume.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Lipscomb155W105-61
11/8@UCF44W105-93
11/12E Kentucky261W92-62
11/15Ark Pine Bluff309W104-75
11/20TX Southern332W109-74
11/26(N)WKU175W83-78
11/27(N)VCU47W89-74
11/28(N)St Mary's CA34W96-71
12/3SMU35W88-69
12/13Cent Arkansas196W83-72
12/17@Memphis104W77-70
12/21@Wake Forest72W98-67
12/29New Haven339W96-53
1/3@South Carolina77W83-71
1/7Alabama19W96-90
1/10LSU42W84-73
1/14@Texas37L80-64
1/17Florida11L98-94
1/20@Arkansas22L93-68
1/24@Mississippi St96W88-56
1/27Kentucky2874%
1/31@Mississippi7175%
2/7Oklahoma6588%
2/10@Auburn2553%
2/14Texas A&M3177%
2/18@Missouri5671%
2/21Tennessee2068%
2/25Georgia3377%
2/28@Kentucky2853%
3/4Mississippi7189%
3/7@Tennessee2046%