When the Cats take on the Vanderbilt Commodores tonight in Rupp Arena, Head Coach Jerry Stackhouse will be without his best player and one of the better players in the SEC, Aaron Nesmith. The 6’6″ sophomore forward was the leading scorer in the conference at 23 points per game, to go along with 4.9 rebounds, and 1.4 steals per contest. He was shooting a fiery hot 52.2% from three-point land and 82.5% from the free throw line.
Nesmith had already had games scoring 34 twice this season, to go along with other big scoring outputs of 29, 26 twice, and 25.