Vanderbilt didn't have a great shooting day, but managed to scrap together a win over Kentucky. That doesn't happen too often.
Earlier this week, John Gasaway put up a blog post about a concept called "Easy Shot Volume Solver." The gist of the piece is that teams that don't commit turnovers and grab offensive rebounds can get away with not shooting well. Vanderbilt ranked 66th of 75 major conference teams in this statistic entering yesterday's game against Kentucky. The Commodores currently rank 14th in the SEC in offensive rebounds and 7th in turnover percentage -- meaning that most of the time, Vanderbilt has to shoot better than the other team to win.