Vanderbilt basketball should be better than this.
I’ve been marinating on this post for a week, ever since Vanderbilt sleepwalked its way through a 70-62 win over Alabama A&M. Alabama A&M ranked 330th in KenPom entering the game; this shouldn’t have been a difficult game. Vanderbilt decided to make it a difficult game because that’s just what they do. So far this season, they’ve lost to Southern Miss (135 in KenPom), VCU (107 in KenPom), and Grambling (239 in KenPom.) They also just barely scraped by Wofford (154 in KenPom) at home. Their wins: Temple on the road in overtime (134), Morehead State (287), Fresno State (139), and Pitt (69) by one point, in addition to the aforementioned close shaves against Wofford and Alabama A&M.