When: 8:30 PM CT, November 6, 2018
Where: Memorial Gym, Nashville, Tennessee
TV: SEC Network+/WatchESPN
Finally, it is here. The first basketball game of the 2018-19 season. Vanderbilt hosts the Winthrop Eagles, who are coming off a 19-12 season and are ranked 179th in the preseason KenPom rankings. KenPom’s algorithm predicts an 81-69 final in Vanderbilt’s favor; the Commodores should win this game, but Winthrop isn’t a pushover.
Of course, we are really excited because tonight marks the Commodore debuts of the program’s first two McDonald’s All-Americans signed out of high school (*I have to add that last qualifier because Billy McCaffrey was a McDonald’s All-American, but didn’t sign with Vanderbilt out of high school.