Basketball’s back!
Basketball’s back, and Vanderbilt opens the season against the Bellarmine Knights, who come down from Louisville for tonight’s game which tips off at 6:00 PM CT and can be watched on the SEC Network+.
Bellarmine is coming off a 13-19 season in their first season under Doug Davenport, the son of longtime coach and Division II national champion Scott Davenport, and KenPom doesn’t project them to be much better this season. On the Vanderbilt end, the Commodores return just three players from last year’s 27-9 team, but one of them is Tyler Tanner who I’ve heard some basketball people talk about as a potential National Player of the Year. Let’s have fun.
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Vanderbilt can tie the school’s wins record tonight.
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