A rather persistent annoyance of mine while watching the Bryce Drew-era Vanderbilt basketball team was that, even with a bench that was often spectrally thin and players who occasionally appeared to be giving about 20 percent effort (okay, that was one guy, but that’s not the point), the walk-ons on the roster barely got off the bench. In fact, non-scholarship players saw a grand total of 18 minutes of floor time under Drew, or 33 minutes fewer than Jon Jossell, a senior manager who got added to the roster, saw in 2019-20 — and Jossell was only the third-most-used walk-on last season.
Braelee Albert is Vanderbilt’s overqualified 14th man
