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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
So, this game seems big, doesn’t it? The “Vandy hasn’t played anybody” line should have been put to rest this week with UCF and SMU both entering the top 25. Beating Alabama… well, that would cement it. It would also put Vandy at 15-0. Let’s do it.
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. […]
Vanderbilt got through its nonconference schedule with a 13-0 record, and as of now they have four Quad 1 wins over Saint Mary’s, SMU, Wake Forest, and UCF. Today… does not represent an opportunity to add to that total. Those will come later in SEC play, but Vanderbilt’s SEC opener is at South Carolina, who’s […]
13-0 (0-0) AP/Coaches: 12/11 Creme: 3-seed NET: 13 January 1, 2026 1:00PM CT at Bud Walton Arena SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 11-4 (0-0) AP/Coaches: NR/NR Creme: NR NET: 101 We enter conference play undefeated for the first time since 1995-96 with a chance to tie the second-best start to a season in […]
And here we are. Vanderbilt caps off the first 10-win season in school history with today’s bowl game, the Outback Bowl (no, I’m not going to call it the ReliaQuest Bowl) in Tampa, Florida, against the Iowa Hawkeyes. This is Vanderbilt’s first bowl game in Florida since the 1955 Gator Bowl; in the intervening time […]
Of the non-CFP bowls so far, the staff is 10-8. We were 8-16 in the CFP games. The standings also got shaken up as Andrew got a game up on the field and Cole jumped into a tie for 2nd with Import. Tom is making a last gasp towards .500 while I missed the chance […]
Vanderbilt comes back from Christmas break to close out its nonconference schedule against New Haven. Did you know there was a University of New Haven? Of course you did, it’s called Yale. Okay, okay, this is a different University of New Haven. New Haven is in its first year in Division I. They’re 5-7, but […]
Letters… we get letters… we get stacks and stacks of letters… Question from Kslaught: Iowa does appear to have a good defense. Teams like this have given us some problems this year. Will we be able to score on them enough to win? Answers from AoG: PatrickSawyer: Vanderbilt is the 8th highest scoring offense in the […]
Post VANDERBILT Football and/or SEC Football questions in the comments here. Like many of you, I’ll be heading down to Tampa—despite my intense hatred of all things Jorts—to watch Diego and the Boys’ Last Stand (Dirty Mike can’t come). We’re playing Iowa, so they’ll try to win a race to 0-0, while we’ll go for […]
A recurring theme on Twitter lately has been fans of other SEC schools discounting Vanderbilt basketball — currently undefeated and ranked 11th in the AP Poll, 8th in KenPom, and 6th in the NCAA’s NET rankings, higher than any other SEC team in all three — because of its nonconference schedule. This is one of […]