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Vanderbilt to play Minnesota in South Dakota. Huh?

If it was your dying wish to go to South Dakota in December to watch the Vanderbilt Commodores play a basketball game, your prayers have been answered.

For everyone else, you probably heard that Vanderbilt signed up to play a game in Sioux Falls on December 3 at the 3,200-seat Sanford Pentagon against the Minnesota Golden Gophers and your likely reaction was... well, that's a head-scratcher.

Per Google Maps, Sioux Falls is a 3-hour, 54-minute drive from Minneapolis. The Sanford Pentagon, home of the D-League's Sioux Falls Skyforce, has a seating capacity that's about a fifth of the capacity of Minnesota's on-campus Williams Arena (one of three Division I arenas that features a raised floor, by the way, and Vanderbilt fans probably know one of the other two.