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Vanderbilt Commodores 2007-08 Men’s Basketball Game Notes Vanderbilt Media Relations, 2601 Jess Neely Dr., Nashville, TN 37212 Basketball SID: Andy Boggs Phone: (615) 343-1847 E-Mail: [email protected] Fax: (615) 343-7064 Website: VUCommodores.com 2007-08 Basketball Schedule Game At A Glance Date Opponent Site Time #18/14 Vanderbilt (23-4, 8-4 SEC) vs. #1/1 Tennessee (25-2, 11-1 SEC) - November - 5 Tusculum+ Nashville W, 80-79 Tuesday * February 26, 2008 * 8 p.m. CT 10 Austin Peay* (CSS) Nashville W, 81-67 Memorial Gymnasium (14,316) 13 at Toledo Toledo, Ohio W, 77-70 20 Valparaiso* Nashville W, 87-78 TV: ESPN 23 vs. Utah State*-1 (CSTV) South Padre Island, Texas W, 77-56 24 vs. Bradley South Padre Island, Texas W, 95-86 Series Info: Tennessee leads the all-time series, 106-66; Vanderbilt leads 45-31 all- 29 South Alabama (CSS) Nashville W, 91-88 2OT - December - time in Nashville; Tennessee leads 68-20 in Knoxville; Tennessee leads 7-1 on neutral 1 Georgia Tech (FSN) Nashville W, 92-79 floors. 5 Wake Forest (FSN) Nashville W, 83-80 Last Meeting: Tennessee won, 80-60, in Knoxville on January 17. 8 Lipscomb (CSS) Nashville W, 90-67 Coaches: Kevin Stallings is in his ninth year at Vanderbilt (167-112) and his 15th 12 at DePaul (ESPN Classic) Chicago, Ill. W, 91-85 OT 22 Tennessee State^ (CSS) Nashville W, 83-74 overall (290-175). Bruce Pearl is in his third season with Tennessee (71-21) and 16th 29 Tennessee-Martin Nashville W, 92-85 overall (388-105). 31 Iona Nashville W, 97-73 Radio: Vanderbilt-ISP Radio Network (WGFX - 104.5 FM) - January - Satellite Radio: Sirius (Channel 123); XM Radio (Channel 199) 3 Rice Nashville W, 76-58 5 Massachusetts (CSS) Nashville W, 97-88 Play-by-Play: Joe Fisher (10th year) Color: Tim Thompson (7th year) 9 South Carolina Nashville W, 80-73 TV: ESPN 12 at Kentucky (CBS) Lexington, Ky. L, 73-79 2OT Play-by-Play: Brad Nessler Color: Jimmy Dykes 17 at Tennessee (ESPN) Knoxville L, 60-80 19 LSU (Raycom) Nashville W, 92-76 Producer: Tim Sullivan Sideline: Jeannine Edwards 27 at Florida (Raycom) Gainesville, Fla. L, 64-86 30 at Ole Miss Oxford, Miss. L, 58-74 #18/14 Vanderbilt Welcomes #1/1 Tennessee To - February - 2 Auburn (FSN) Nashville W, 78-71 Memorial Gym For Tuesday Night Tilt 6 at Georgia Athens, Ga. W, 67-59 Vanderbilt will welcome the number one-ranked Tennessee Volunteers to Memorial 9 at South Carolina (FSN) Columbia, S.C. W, 66-65 Gym Tuesday night, the ninth time a #1 team (Associated Press) has visited the 56-year 12 Kentucky (ESPN) Nashville W, 93-52 old arena, in a nationally televised game 16 Florida (Raycom) Nashville W, 61-58 23 Georgia (Raycom) Nashville W, 86-74 on ESPN. Tip off is at 8 p.m. CST, with Season Tickets Sold Out! 26 Tennessee (ESPN) Nashville 8 p.m. Brad Nessler and Jimmy Dykes handling Season tickets for the 2007-08 season - March - announcing duties on the television side, are sold out for this season. There will 1 at Arkansas (Raycom) Fayetteville, Ark. 3 p.m. and Joe Fisher and Tim Thompson calling 5 Mississippi State Nashville 7 p.m. be no individual game tickets for the SEC 8 at Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. 6 p.m. the game on the Vanderbilt/ISP Radio season. It marks the first time since the 13-16 SEC Tournament-2 Atlanta, Ga. TBA Network. 1992-93 season that Memorial Gym has 20-23 NCAA Tournament TBA TBA Vanderbilt, who owns a 5-3 record First & Second Rounds sold out. 27-30 NCAA Tournament TBA TBA all-time at Memorial Gymnasium against Regional Semis and Finals #1-ranked opponents, has won the last three meetings with the top ranked team. The - April - Commodores defeated #1 Florida, 83-70, on February 17, 2007, ending the Gators’ 17- 5 & 7 NCAA Final Four San Antonio, Texas TBA game winning streak, knocked off #1 Kentucky, 101-86, on January 13, 1993, and took out Notes: (^) Doubleheader with Vanderbilt women; (+) Exhibition; (*) - South Padre Island North Carolina, 78-76, on December 5, 1987. Invitational contest; 1 - South Padre Island Convention Center, South Padre Island, All-time against number one-ranked teams, Vanderbilt is 6-13 both home and away Texas; 2- Georgia Dome, Altanta, Ga.; CSS - Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast; FSN since the Associated Press poll began in February of 1949. - Fox Sports Net; SUN - Sun Sports;Raycom - Raycom Sports; CSTV - College Sports The Commodores are riding a six-game SEC winning streak, the longest of the Kevin Television; Dates and times are subject to change. All times Central. Stallings-era (1999-present) and the longest since 1996-97, when Vanderbilt won six Today’s Probable Starting Lineups Vanderbilt Tennessee # Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. PPG RPG A/B/S Hometown # Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. PPG RPG A/B/S Hometown 0 Jermaine Beal G 6’3 210 So. 7.7 2.1 4.7a DeSoto, Texas 1 Tyler Smith F 6’7 215 So. 13.5 6.5 3.7a Pulaski, Tenn. Made game-winning basket at S. Carolina; leads league in A-TO ratio (3.00, all games; 3.87, SEC only) 3 Alex Gordon G 6’0 170 Sr. 11.0 2.6 3.0a Pensacola, Fla. 2 JaJuan Smith G 6’2 195 Sr. 14.1 3.5 1.8s Cleveland, Tenn. Made game-winning FT’s vs. Fla.; scored season-high 23 points on career-high seven made threes vs. UGA. 4 A.J. Ogilvy C 6’11 250 Fr. 17.1 6.9 1.4b Sydney, Australia 4 Wayne Chism F 6’9 242 So. 9.3 6.1 1.3b Jackson, Tenn. 3-time SEC Freshman of the Week; now has 38 blocks in ‘07-08, most in a VU season since 1995-96. 32 Shan Foster G/F 6’6 205 Sr. 19.3 5.0 1.8a Kenner, La. 5 Chris Lofton G 6’2 200 Sr. 15.1 3.3 2.1a Maysville, Ky. Three-time SEC Player of the Week in 2007-08; scored 29 points to lead all scorers vs. UGA. 41 Ross Neltner F 6’9 240 Sr. 8.4 5.4 1.9a Fort Thomas, Ky. 12 Ramar Smith G 6’2 200 So. 8.2 2.4 3.1a Mt. Clemens, Mich. Scored 11 points and grabbed six rebounds against UGA - also added three assists in 34 minutes. Vanderbilt vs. Tennessee 2007-08 Commodore Basketball straight in SEC competition (2/1-2/19, 1997). Vanderbilt, now with 23 wins and only four losses, Last Meeting SEC Preseason Polls equals the most wins in a season for Vanderbilt in the Kevin Stallings’ era. The 2003-04 team also recorded Game Eighteen Vanderbilt was picked to finish fourth in the SEC 23 wins. The 23 regular season wins also ties for the East by a select group of 30 media members in a poll second-most in school history. The 1964-65 and 1972-73 Vanderbilt ...................................60 released by the league prior to the SEC Basketball teams also recorded 23 victories in the regular season. Media Days October 24-25 in Birmingham. vs. Tennessee ..............................80 The Commodores received 98 points in the poll The record for most wins in a regular season is 25 set Knoxville, Tenn. (Thompson-Boling Arena) during the 1992-93 season. In addition, the Commodores to finish behind Tennessee (180), Kentucky (142), have won 45 games over the last two seasons, the most and Florida (103). Georgia was chosen fifth (69), and victories over a two-season span since Vanderbilt won 48 Wayne Chism’s career-high 18 rebounds -- 11 on South Carolina was chosen sixth (38). defense -- were the most by any Tennessee player over the 1992-93 and 1993-94 seasons. Arkansas was chosen to win the SEC West with since 1996, and his season-high 18 points led No. 6 168 votes, 20 votes better than Mississippi State. In Vanderbilt’s last time out, the Commodores knocked Tennessee to an 80-60 win over No. 16 Vanderbilt. off Georgia, 86-74, to garner their first regular season Tennessee received 28 out of the 30 votes to win Tennessee (15-1, 3-0 SEC) grabbed 43 rebounds and the SEC Championship. Mississippi State received sweep of the Bulldogs since the 1999-2000 campaign. scored 30 points off 22 turnovers, quieting one of the Shan Foster tallied 29 points to lead all scorers, while Alex the other two votes. SEC’s best shooting teams. Vanderbilt’s Shan Foster was chosen to the Gordon scored a season-high 23 points on a career-best Vanderbilt (16-2, 1-2) entered the game averaging media and the coaches’ first team. seven made three pointers. 86 points per game, second only to Tennessee’s 86.7. The Bulldogs, who led by one at the half, 38-37, fell They also were averaging 9.29 3-pointers a game, just victim to a Vanderbilt 21-5 run in the early minutes of the behind Tennessee’s 9.73. 2006-07 Results second half to take a 64-47 advantage. Alex Gordon made But the Commodores, who have dropped two straight Team Poll SEC Overall a pair of three-pointers during the run and A.J. Ogilvy after a 16-0 start, completed only 3 of their 21 attempts Eastern Division capped off the run with an old fashioned three-point play.