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WBB Game 25: Oklahoma at Vanderbilt

17-5 (5-4) AP/Coaches: 11/11 Creme: 4-seed NET: 12 February 9, 2026 8:00PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium ESPN2 | Radio Call | Live Stats 22-2 (8-2) AP/Coaches: 7/8 Creme: 2-seed NET: 8 Alright. Back to our normally scheduled programming. Vanderbilt has only dropped 2 ranked games, back-to-back, against South Carolina and Ole Miss, but we rebounded […]

about 14 hours ago | 0 reads

Game 22: Ole Miss Rebels at Vanderbilt Commodores

Well, Vanderbilt was supposed to be on the road this weekend, but thanks to the lingering effects of last weekend’s ice storm in Mississippi, Vanderbilt will play Ole Miss at home tonight at 5 PM CT on the SEC Network. As a result, the Commodores swapped a home game with Ole Miss in the last […]

10 days ago | 0 reads

WBB Game 22: Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss

Relocated to Birmingham due to weather, which means we are going to get a chance at top-20 Ole Miss on a neutral court. My site of choice for the women’s side seems to give about 6 points for home court and is currently giving the Brown Rebsharkqirrels a 3-point win over us before adjusting for […]

11 days ago | 0 reads

Vanderbilt Basketball Mailbag: Call for Submissions

Post VANDERBILT Basktball (Men’s and Women’s) questions in the comments here. I didn’t want to jinx anything while either the men’s or women’s teams were undefeated, but now that both have had their share of ups and downs, let’s open up the ol’ bag. Beyond that, I petitioned an Alabama judge to let our G […]

12 days ago | 2 reads

Vanderbilt whips Kentucky 80-55, improves to 18-3

The weeklong freakout about Vanderbilt’s three-game losing streak after starting the season 16-0 is officially over. After blowing out Mississippi State in Starkville over the weekend, the Vanderbilt Commodores came back to Memorial Gym and amidst Snowpocalypse easily handled Kentucky. This was a beatdown from start to finish, as the Commodores opened up a 7-0 […]

13 days ago | 0 reads

Game 21: Kentucky Wildcats at Vanderbilt Commodores

It sounds like this one will go on as scheduled. Vanderbilt, 17-3 on the season, snapped a three-game losing streak at Mississippi State on Saturday and is back at Memorial Gym to host Kentucky. Kentucky enters tonight on a five-game winning streak but has only gone up from 30 to 28 in KenPom during that […]

14 days ago | 2 reads

The Statistical: Vanderbilt 88, Mississippi State 56

This was a straight domination of the type we saw quite a bit in the nonconference portion of the schedule, but that hadn’t been seen for weeks. Interestingly, Vanderbilt only won two of the four factors: Mississippi State got to the foul line more often and grabbed more of their own misses, but Mississippi State […]

16 days ago | 3 reads

Vanderbilt gets right with 88-56 crushing of Mississippi State

The 11 AM tipoff and the threat of winter weather did nothing to restrain Vanderbilt in Saturday’s visit to Starkville, Mississippi, as the Commodores snapped a three-game losing streak by beating Mississippi State 88-56. This was never in doubt. AK Okereke opened the scoring with a bucket in the first minute and Vanderbilt never trailed, […]

17 days ago | 1 read

Game 20: Vanderbilt Commodores at Mississippi State Bulldogs

Three-game losing streaks are not good. Three-game losing streaks that involve an embarrassing blowout loss at Arkansas are really not good. Vanderbilt has an early tip-off today at Mississippi State at 11 AM CT, moved up due to weather. Hopefully, uh, this goes better than the last three games. Thanks to the entire schedule getting […]

17 days ago | 3 reads

WBB Game 20: Auburn at Vanderbilt

The eye of the hurricane. We are coming off a top-10 win and are staring down the barrel of another, that one AT South Carolina. For now, we welcome Auburn to Nashville for what could be a trap game… but more likely the win that puts us at 20-and-zero.

19 days ago | 0 reads

Anchor Drop, January 22, 2026

Optional Musical Accompaniment (Am I bringing back the Anchor Drop solely because I wanted to post Ivan Mladek singing in front of what appears to be a nude outdoor concert? Yes, yes I did. Is “Anchor Drop with goofy foreign music videos” going to be a new feature at Anchor of Gold? Also yes.) Vanderbilt […]

19 days ago | 0 reads

Game 19: Vanderbilt Commodores at Arkansas Razorbacks

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.

21 days ago | 1 read

Vanderbilt visits the House of Horrors at the exact worst time

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. […]

21 days ago | 3 reads

The Stupidest Betting Scandal Hits College Basketball

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 […]

25 days ago | 1 read

Game 17: Vanderbilt Commodores at Texas Longhorns

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 […]

27 days ago | 3 reads

WBB Game 17: Vanderbilt at Texas A&M

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 […]

30 days ago | 5 reads

Game 16: LSU Tigers at Vanderbilt Commodores

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 […]

about 1 month ago | 1 read

WBB Game 15: LSU at Vanderbilt

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. […]

about 1 month ago | 3 reads