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CommodorE TimELINE Vanderbilt History AT A Glance All-Time Record ........................................ 1470-1035 (.587) Total Weeks Ranked in AP Poll ................................... 185 First Game ....................... 1900, L 22-19 to Nashville YMCA Consecutive Weeks Ranked in AP Poll .....18 (1966, 1967) NCAA Appearances ................ 12 (1965, 1974, 1988, 1989, Highest Ranking in AP Poll ......................No. 2 (12/28/65) ................ 1991, 1993, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011) Overall Record at Memorial Gym ...............696-190 (.786) NCAA Tournament Record ................................ 9-13 (.409) Undefeated Seasons at Memorial Gym ......................... 6 Best NCAA Tournament Finish .... Elite 8 in 1965 (Field of 23); Most Home Wins in a Season ...........................19 in 2008 .................. Sweet 16 in 1988, 1993, 2004, 2007 (Field of 64 or 65) All-Time Leading Scorer .Shan Foster (2005-08); 2,011 points NIT Appearances .......... 11 (1983, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1,000-point scorers ........................................................ 41 .................................... 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006) Most Career Rebounds ............Clyde Lee (1964-66); 1,223 NIT Record ......................................................... 18-10 (.643) Most Career 3-Pointers .................Shan Foster (2005-08); 367 SEC Titles ........................................... 3, (1965, 1974, 1993) Most Career Free Throws.......Bobby Thym (1954-57); 453 SEC Players of the Year (AP) ............................................ 6 Most Career Assists .............Atiba Prater (1996-2000); 517 Players Named SEC First Team (AP) .............................. 21 Most Career Steals ............... Drew Maddux (1994-98) and Winningest Head Coach .....Roy Skinner (1959, 1962-1976) .............................................. Frank Seckar (1993-1996); 214 ........................................................................ 278-135 (.673) Most Career Blocks ........ Will Perdue (1984, 1986-88); 157 All-Time Lettermen ........................................................ 566 First Team All-Americans ................................................ 6 1900 (Dec. 15) — Vanderbilt plays its first varsity the right foot by winning the school’s first league basketball-only coach. Soon, scholarships would be basketball game, losing 22-19 to the YMCA Ramblers. championship. Vanderbilt wins the Southern awarded to basketball players and plans for a gym on Vanderbilt would even its all-time mark at 1-1 in its next Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship with campus were underway. game, beating the same Rambler squad 24-9. a 14-4 record. 1950 — Billy Joe Adcock becomes the school’s first All- 1902 — Vanderbilt hits the road for the first time, 1927 — Vanderbilt records the first of the school’s 14 American and first All-SEC player, averaging 17.1 points heading to Birmingham to take on Howard College. The 20-win seasons by compiling a 20-4 record under coach per game. Adcock’s 1947-48 scoring average leads the Commodores learn for the first time that it’s harder to Josh Cody. The Commodores also win their second SEC, the first Commodore to win the conference scor- win on the road and fall to Howard, 33-23. championship, this time, taking the Southern ing title. 1903 — Perfection! The Commodores record the first, Conference crown. 1951 — Under the direction of coach Bob Polk and and only, undefeated season in school history, going 6-0. 1938 — Brant “Pinky” Lipscomb makes his debut in a captain George Kelley, Vanderbilt wins the SEC Tour- A 24-21 win over Cumberland in the season finale is the Commodore uniform. With his unique left-handed nament in Louisville with an upset win over Kentucky. closest game of the year. running hook, Lipscomb twice is named to the SEC Legend has it that “Kentucky” was already inscribed 1909 — The Commodores tickle the twines like never All-Tournament team and sets several tournament and on the tournament trophy when the Commodores before, breaking the 50-point barrier for the first time in school scoring records. Adolph Rupp later calls pulled out the 61-57 win. a 52-23 win over the Chattanooga Ramblers. It would be Lipscomb one of the best players ever to face his 1952 — Brand new Memorial Gymnasium makes its another 45 years before Vanderbilt would break the next Kentucky squads. debut December 6 as the Commodores beat Virginia major scoring milestone, hitting triple digits for the first 1944, 1945 — Due to World War II, the Commodores play 90-83 in the home opener. Apparently encouraged by time in a 104-88 win over Washington & Lee in the an informal schedule. the new surroundings, the Commodores launch 120 second game of the 1954-55 season. 1947 — Perhaps the most important moment in the shots in the next game, against David Lipscomb, still a 1913 — G.T. Denton, an assistant football coach, growth of Vanderbilt basketball, the Commodores are school record. becomes Vanderbilt’s full-time basketball coach. shellacked 98-29 by Adolph Rupp’s Kentucky Wildcats 1956 — Memorial Gym Magic! Vanderbilt records its 1920 — The Commodores begin the Roaring Twenties on in the SEC Tournament. The defeat spurs athletic first undefeated home season in the gym, compiling a director Red Sanders to hire Bob Polk, Vanderbilt’s first 13-0 mark at Memorial Gym. It is the first of five per- Fact Book 55 CommodorE TimELINE 1985 — Phil Cox scores his last point, number 1,725 of his career. He ranks as Vanderbilt’s all-time leading scorer until Matt Freije ends his Commodore career with 1,891 points at the close of the 2004 season. 1988 — The Commodores advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in dramatic fashion as Barry Goheen drains two three pointers in the last five sec- onds against Pittsburgh. The Commodores go on to win the game 80-74 in overtime. 1989 — Vanderbilt defeats Texas, 94-79, the 500th career win for head coach C.M. Newton. 1990 — In a year in which the Commodores lose nine of 12 games in one stretch, Vanderbilt comes roaring back with a late-season surge to earn a berth in the NIT. The Commodores overcome huge first-half deficits against Louisiana Tech and Tennessee in the first two rounds Vanderbilt players pose for a team photo following their win over Virginia, 90-83, and go on to take the school’s first NIT championship, in the first game played in Memorial Gymnasium on Dec. 6, 1952. beating Saint Louis 74-72. Scott Draud is named the MVP of the NIT. fect seasons in the gym, the last coming in 1993. 1975 — The senior season for the F-Troop—Jeff 1993 — With junior guard Billy McCaffrey leading the 1957 — Bobby Thym ends his Vanderbilt career with Fosnes, Butch Feher, and Joe Ford. Fosnes becomes way, Vanderbilt wins its third SEC title in history and 1,403 points. He’ll be Vanderbilt’s all-time leading scorer Vanderbilt’s initial first-team Academic All-American. makes another appearance in the NCAA Sweet 16. The until Clyde Lee breaks his mark in 1966. 1977 — The Commodore faithful turn out in record Commodores set a school record for victories with 28. McCaffrey, in his first year at VU, earns All-America 1965 — Vanderbilt wins its first SEC Championship, numbers, as Vanderbilt ranks fourth in the nation in average home attendance at 14,131. honors and senior captain Bruce Elder is named the recording a 24-4 record under coach Roy Skinner. Academic All-American of the Year. Eddie Fogler is the Clyde Lee, John Ed Miller and Snake Grace each earn 1981 — Two of Vanderbilt’s most prolific scorers, consensus National Coach of the Year. All-SEC honors. The Commodores advance to the Charles Davis and Mike Rhodes, sink their final baskets. NCAA’s Elite Eight before dropping an 87-85 heart- The teammates tie for the Vanderbilt record for career 1994 — Jan van Breda Kolff returns to Memorial Gym breaker to Michigan. It is the first of four consecutive field goals, each making 683. as Vanderbilt’s head coach, posting the best winning 20-win seasons under Skinner. percentage ever for a first-year Commodores head man. Vanderbilt makes its second appearance in the NIT 1966 — Clyde Lee’s All-American season. Lee averag- championship game, falling 80-73 to Villanova. McCaf- es 22.6 points per game and is at the time the school’s frey becomes just the second Vanderbilt player to aver- all-time leading scorer. He also leads the SEC in age 20 points per game in consecutive seasons, the first rebounding for the third straight year. The Commodores being Clyde Lee. finish second in the SEC with an overall record of 22-4. 1995 — Ronnie McMahan concludes his career at 1967 — The color barrier is finally broken in the South- Vanderbilt just six points shy of becoming the school’s eastern Conference, as Vanderbilt’s Perry Wallace all-time leading scorer. McMahan does finish his career becomes the league’s first African-American scholar- as VU’s all-time leading 3-point shooter and one of the ship basketball player in the 1967-68 season. Wallace top 10 leaders in assists, steals and blocked shots. remains poised in the face of threats and taunting throughout his career, is voted Vanderbilt’s most popular 1996 — The Commodores posted an 18-14 record and student as a senior, and is now a professor of law at advanced to the NIT where they defeat Arkansas-Little American University in Washington, D.C. Rock in the first round. Vanderbilt upsets No. 4 UCLA at the Maui Invitational. Senior Frank Seckar finished 1969 — Tom Hagan earns All-American honors, averag- his career 16th on Vanderbilt’s all-time scoring list with ing a school-record 23.4 points per game. On March 8, 1,317 points. he sets the Vanderbilt single-game scoring record with 44 points at Mississippi State. 1997 — Vanderbilt advanced to its seventh NCAA Tour- nament in program history. The Commodores made a 1970 — Without benefit of the 3-point shot or the charge at the end of the regular season, winning eight shot clock, Vanderbilt set a school record that still of their last 10 SEC games to finish 19-12.