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3pm FloSports. The 2026 Diamond Dores Season begins… now. See my Season Preview for more on this team. On the Mound Friday @ 3:00pm FloSports #39 Vanderbilt Jr. RHP Connor “The Spice” Fennell (6-0; 2.53 ERA*) vs. #49 TCU Jr. RHP Tommy “The Pour” LaPour (8-3; 3.09 ERA*) *Record and ERA from 2025. The Lineup […]
Though there are still land-based ice bergs everywhere I look, it is somehow baseball season this Friday. The Diamond Dores, as seemingly happens every year, open with a three game mini-tournament of sorts in Arlington, Tejas called “The Shriner’s Children’s College Showdown.” I’d say be on the lookout for fez-clad Boomers driving mini cars and/or […]
23-2 (8-2) AP/Coaches: 4/4 Creme: 1-seed NET: 4 February 12, 2026 6:30PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 23-2 (9-2) AP/Coaches: 5/5 Creme: 2-seed NET: 7 Wow-ee, another big conference game come and gone and we end up on the winning side once again. This one wasn’t even particularly close. […]
Vanderbilt is trying to shake off a 1-point loss at home to the worst team in the SEC, Oklahoma. Granted, getting it to one included Vanderbilt stageing a 19-point comeback in the last 3:24 of the game. Tonight, the Dores are at Auburn, who blew a game against Alabama and their now-ineligible Center Charles Bediako. […]
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 […]
After a week off, Vanderbilt is back in action today at 2:30 PM as Oklahoma comes to town. The SEC office incorrectly considers this an SEC conference game when it is obviously part of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
Sorry it has been inconsistent so far. Better late than never I think?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since we’re all snowed in today, and Vanderbilt doesn’t have a basketball game until tomorrow night — if that even happens, what with all of us still buried in snow and ice — I wanted to take stock of three separate and yet extremely related developments in college sports over the last week and change […]
We win? We’re the best team in the country. We lose?? We’re still one of the 5 best teams in the country. I am just excited to see what we do.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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. […]
We gotta prove it here. We don’t get a slip up if we want to stay in the hunt for a 1-seed.
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 […]
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!
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 […]