Good Tuesday evening to ya. Hope you're ready for a wonderful 9 p.m. ET tip on the SEC Network between No. 24 Tennessee (11-5, 2-3 SEC) and Vanderbilt (10-6, 2-2 SEC).
Updates and coverage coming your way. In the meantime, here's what you need to know about Vanderbilt:
Tennessee leads the all-time series with Vanderbilt, 126-75, dating to 1922.
Tennessee has won 10 of the last 11 meetings in this series
Tennessee has won 8 straight and 5 straight at Memorial Gym
Projected Vanderbilt (10-6, 2-2 SEC) starting lineup:
Key Vanderbilt bench players:
Updates and coverage coming your way. In the meantime, here's what you need to know about Vanderbilt:
Tennessee leads the all-time series with Vanderbilt, 126-75, dating to 1922.
Tennessee has won 10 of the last 11 meetings in this series
Tennessee has won 8 straight and 5 straight at Memorial Gym
Projected Vanderbilt (10-6, 2-2 SEC) starting lineup:
- PG, Scotty Pippen Jr., Jr.
- SEC Preseason Player of the Year
- leads the SEC with 18.8 points per game, 3.3 rebounds, 3.1 assists, .319 3P%
- 12th nationally in free throws attempted (6.6 per game)
- G, Tyrin Lawrence, So.
- Former Kansas transfer missed most of last season due to a knee injury
- 4.9 points, 2.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists, .143% from three
- F, Jordan Wright, Jr.
- 12.4 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.8 assists, .344 3P%
- Also slides down and plays the 4
- broke out of a months-long slump in last game against Georgia with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists
- starting the season hot with four games of 15 points or more
- Since, had hit double figures in just 5 of 11 games — his FG% dip to a career-low 37.6% entering Georgia
- F, Myles Stute, So.
- Long athletic wing who can shoot it from three
- 8.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, 0.4 assists, shooting 40% from three
- F, Quentin Millora-Brown, Sr.
- Averaging 5.5 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.6 assists, has 20 blocks, started all 16 games
- has emerged as one of the SEC's better defensive big men this season despite entering the campaign as a projected backup to Minnesota transfer Liam Robbins
- has battled foul trouble in two of Vanderbilt's last three games
Key Vanderbilt bench players:
- C, Liam Robbins — out due to injury
- Minnesota transfer has not been playing due to a stress reaction in his left foot
- The 7-foot, 250-pound center led the Big Ten with 2.7 blocks per game in 2020-21
- averaged 11.7 points per game and 6.6 rebounds while shooting 32.7% from 3-point
- G, Rodney Chatham, Sr. — out due to a hamstring injury
- Graduate transfer from Dayton is missing his third straight game — has missed 11 games this year
- 4.2 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists, .364 3P%
- PG, Trey Thomas, So.
- Led all SEC freshmen in 3-point% last season shooting 39.8%
- Averages 18.9 minutes off the bench, 6.4 points, 1.3 rebounds, 1.1 assists, shooting 31.1% from three
- F, Jermaine Mann, So. — transfer from Gardner-Webb
- Played in 13 games, made one start, averaging 6.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, hasn’t made a three
- Averaged 6.8 points and 5.3 rebounds during freshman year at GWU
- G, Shane Dezonie, Fr.
- Originally signed with Arizona but flipped to Vandy after coaching change
- Averaging 14.2 minutes, 3.5 points, 2.9 rebounds, 0.9 assists
- F, Terren Frank, So. — transfer from TCU
- Played in all 16 games, hasn’t started, averaging 13.0 minutes, 2.4 points, 2.2 rebounds, 0.3 assists
- Averaged 1.9 points and 0.9 points during freshman year at TCU — HS teammate of Pippen
- SF, Gabe Dorsey, Fr.
- Played in 14 games, made 2 starts, averaging 7.0 minutes, 0.7 points, 0.4 rebounds, .100 3P%
- 77th in KenPom entering the game — KenProm projects a 70-65 Tennessee win (64%)
- Jerry Stackhouse is 0-4 against Tennessee
- Took a 21-4 run to start the second half to avoid a bad loss to Georgia on Saturday
- 102nd strength of schedule
- 73rd-most bench minutes (36.5%)
- 187th in minutes continuity (47.8%)
- 276th youngest team (1.51 years)
- 28th in 3PA (46.0)
- 35.3% of points comes from three’s (82nd)
- 47th in FTA/FGA (35.8)
- 20.7% of points come off free throws (42nd)
- 71st in steal% (8.2)
- 120th in offensive rebound% (30.4)
- 129th in turnover% (18.2)
- 28th nationally in turnover margin (+4.0)
- 225th in effective FG% (48.5)
- 169th in 2P% (49.9)
- 44% of points come from 2’s (329th)
- 169th in FT% (71.0)
- 169th in 2P% (49.9)
- 249th in adjusted tempo (67.1)
- 222nd in non-steal TO% (10.0)
- 267th in average possession length (18.1)
- 325th in block% (11.5)
- 19th in turnover% (24.0)
- 26th nationally in turnovers forced per game (16.44)
- Vandy has forced 15 or more turnovers in 10 games.
- 12th in non-steal TO% (12.6)
- 48th in steal% (11.4)
- 81st in 3P% (31.0)
- 119th in effective FG% (48.3)
- Allowing just 63.6 points per game, 61st nationally
- 120th in block% (9.9)
- 163rd in FTA/FGA (29.2)
- 18.1% of points come from free throws (153rd)
- 175th in 2P% (49.5)
- 48.9% of points come from two’s (230th)
- 176th in offensive rebound% (28.3)
- 273rd in A/FGM (55.1)
- 281st in 3PA/FGA (41.8)
- 33% of team’s points come off of 3’s (132nd)
