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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 […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment Vanderbilt baseball stopped the bleeding a bit with a 14-6 win over Indiana State last night thanks to a six-run fifth inning, after falling behind the Sycamores 6-2. That improves Vanderbilt to 11-7 going into SEC play, which opens on Friday against LSU. Today’s SEC Tournament schedule, for those watching. […]
The SEC Tournament starts today, and there was a time in the not so distant past that Vanderbilt would be playing today in the first round. Not this year! Vanderbilt doesn’t play until Friday as the 4-seed. So what are the odds that Vanderbilt wins this thing? Well, let’s consult FanDuel for the SEC Tournament […]
6pm CT SECN+. With Sunday’s loss to a prior-to-Sunday one loss NDSU team, it’s understandable if you feel a bit deflated, and need a shot of confidence in the form of a victory over a usually tough mid-major before LSU comes to down and drinks Nashville dry. By you, I mean me, of course. Well, […]
Good morning. Optional Musical Accompaniment All right, so I’m bringing back the Anchor Drop as a daily feature, and also because it’s Champ Week and just before March Madness, an open thread for all the sickos with an ESPN+ subscription amongst us. Tyler Tanner is the SEC Player of the Week and also First-Team All-SEC, […]
1pm CT SECN+. Wyatt “Ice Town” Nadeau made his first Diamond Dore start (for the injured Austin Nye), and though Corbs decided to give the win to Adria Casoliba, Nadeau’s 4 scoreless innings were the story here. Though he frequently put some ducks on the pond (3 H and 4 BB), he kept them stranded, […]
Fanduel’s sponsoring this one, ladies, but this post is only tangentially gambling-related. With a Bacon and Donut Sadness-esque regular season finale victory over THEM on that court to the East… …and the Jorts handling business in Wedding Jerseytown, the Shooty Dores are getting some well-earned rest in the form of the SEC Tourney double bye. […]
7pm CT SECN+. Game One was a 14-2 run rule victory in the 7th. Thank you Dores, may we please have another. First, mea culpa. I had thought I remembered to schedule yesterday’s game thread, but must have hit the wrong button or something. As I had work and meetings all day, followed by a […]
Vanderbilt led wire-to-wire Saturday afternoon and beat Tennessee 86-82, completing its regular season with a 24-7 record, 11-7 in the SEC. The 24 regular season wins is the most for the Commodores since the 2007-08 team, which went into the SEC Tournament with a 25-6 record (let’s not talk about what happened after that.) And […]