Prime 25 And 1: Vanderbilt stays undefeated, however SEC play ramps up this week

Tyler Tanner acquired 19 factors and 14 assists in Vanderbilt‘s 83-71 win at South Carolina on Saturday that allowed it to stay one among six undefeated groups within the sport. The Commodores are 14-0 with 12 double-digit victories and super-strong pc numbers.

There is no doubt they’re good. However the very first thing skeptics level out is that Vandy’s undefeated file, good because it is likely to be, options zero victories over groups presently ranked within the Related Press Prime 25 ballot.

That is technically true.

However, it needs to be famous, that can change Monday, earlier than the Commodores even play one other sport, so long as AP voters comply with the lead of Sunday morning’s up to date CBS Sports activities Prime 25 And 1 every day school basketball rankings — as a result of among the many 4 new entries listed below are UCF and SMU, and Vandy already owns wins over each. The Commodores beat UCF 105-93 in November and SMU 88-69 in December. 

On the time of these video games, it was truthful to marvel what they meant. However UCF is now 12-1 following Saturday’s 81-75 win over Kansas and ranked nineteenth within the Prime 25 And 1. And SMU is now 12-2 and ranked twentieth within the Prime 25 And 1 following Saturday’s 97-83 win over North Carolina. So Vanderbilt’s physique of labor improved in a number of methods this weekend with a chance for Mark Byington’s workforce to file what could be their greatest win of the season on faucet within the type of Wednesday’s showdown with Alabama inside Nashville’s Memorial Gymnasium.

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Vandy is No. 12 within the Prime 25 And 1. Alabama is No. 13. They’re the 2 highest-rated SEC faculties in these rankings — forward of No. 14 Arkansas, No. 23 Tennessee, No. 25 Kentucky and No. 26 Georgia. Undefeated Michigan stays No. 1 within the Prime 25 And 1 for the twenty sixth consecutive day. The Wolverines presently have a web score at KenPom.com of +39.30. FYI: the one workforce that is ever completed with a greater web score within the historical past of KenPom’s database (that dates again to the 1996-97 season) is the 1999 Duke workforce that went 39-2 with a web score of +43.01.

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