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Vanderbilt women’s basketball’s run for a SEC Tournament Championship may be over, but its season is not. After losing to Ole Miss in the quarterfinal round of the SEC Tournament, the Commodores now look toward the NCAA Tournament where they will make a run at the National Championship.
Vanderbilt is going to be a host site barring something extremely unforeseen happening when the tournament bracket is released. The question is where will Vanderbilt be seeded and who will it play.
ESPN women’s college basketball bracketologist Charlie Creme updated his bracket projection following Vanderbilt’s loss Friday night. In the projection, Creme still has Vanderbilt as a No. 2 seed in No. 1 UConn’s bracket. Vanderbilt would play Jacksonville in the first round in Creme’s projection.
Vanderbilt is going to be expected to make it to the second weekend after hosting the first two rounds of the tournament in Nashville. What will be interesting to see is which region the Commodores will be in and which team is seeded at the top of the region. The SEC is likely to have two No. 1 seeds in the bracket, so the committee could avoid putting Vanderbilt in either of those regions.
Only time will tell where Vanderbilt is placed in the bracket, but the Commodores do know it will have a chance to make a championship run.
181 days
No. 24 Vanderbilt men’s basketball beat No. 23 Tennessee 86-82.
Vanderbilt lacrosse lost to Ohio State 16-4.
Vanderbilt baseball beat North Dakota State 10-0.
Vanderbilt bowling at the Music City Classic, Day 3 at 9:40 a.m. CT.
Vanderbilt baseball vs. North Dakota State, Game 3 at 1 p.m. CT on SEC Network+.
Vanderbilt men’s tennis at Ole Miss, 1 p.m. CT.
Vanderbilt women’s tennis vs. No. 11 South Carolina, 1 p.m. CT
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Graham Baakko is a writer for Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of Crimson Tide sports. He also covered South Carolina athletics as a sportswriting intern for GamecockCentral.
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