What happened in Vegas certainly won’t stay there, as Butler picked up a big nonconference victory Thursday evening.
Vanderbilt was coming off a heart-wrenching loss to Bucknell, letting a stellar, 23-point performance from Matthew Fisher-Davis go to waste.
The star guard would find it much harder to score in bunches against a porous Bulldogs defense. Fisher-Davis scored the first points of the contest, but failed to get on the board after that. He wasn’t the only Commodore to struggle against Butler’s defense, as the starting five shot a combined 29 percent from the field.
Butler was in control for most of the game until Vanderbilt took a late 52-51 lead in the game.