For the first time since November, Vanderbilt was at full strength on Wednesday night. Totally related, Vanderbilt looked like they did in November.
I will not complain about a win in Knoxville.
There was plenty of gnashing of teeth about it, but in hindsight, it's pretty easy to figure out what went wrong for Vanderbilt in December and the first part of January: The Commodores were not at full strength.
On November 25, Vanderbilt dropped a seven-point decision to Kansas -- which, you know, was recently ranked number one in the country -- on the heels of a 5-0 start that included obliterations of subpar competition (and an overtime win over Stony Brook, who's actually pretty good.