Jarring Stats From Vanderbilt Basketball's Blowout Loss To Arkansas

Mark Byington said it, and it appears to beryllium nan champion measurement to picture what happened to Vanderbilt hoops successful its 93-68 nonaccomplishment to Arkansas connected Tuesday. 

“Just benignant of speaking from nan heart, that was embarrassing,” Byington said successful his postgame power hit. “That's nan first clip this twelvemonth that I felt for illustration we didn't compete, and we weren't reliable and we sewage connected our heels correct away. They’re an diversion squad who plays awesome successful this building, we cognize it, but astatine nan aforesaid time,, I sewage to do a amended occupation pinch our guys, 'cause that wasn't who we are.”

Here’s immoderate discourse arsenic to why Byington feels that way. 

Contextualizing Vanderbilt’s nonaccomplishment to Arkansas

Vanderbilt trailed by arsenic overmuch arsenic 31 connected Tuesday–which was its largest shortage of nan season. 

Arkansas outscored Vanderbilt 21-8 connected nan fastbreak connected Tuesday. 

Arkansas led for nan entirety of Tuesday’s game. 

Vanderbilt was outshot 57.8%-to-37.9% from nan field.

That was a disaster, a nightmare and immoderate you want to telephone it for Vanderbilt basketball. Vanderbilt was outclassed successful conscionable astir each measurement connected Tuesday night. One squad connected nan level looked for illustration a second-weekend squad while nan different 1 didn’t. 

Spoiler alert, Vanderbilt wasn’t nan squad that looked for illustration a second-weekend team. 

By nan first media timeout, Vanderbilt defender Mike James was connected nan level rolling astir successful pain, Vanderbilt was trailing 9-2–and could’ve been trailing by much had Arkansas made much unfastened looks–and nan contingent of Arkansas fans connected manus was calling nan Hogs. The segment was reminiscent of a superhero successful nan moments aft it mislaid its powers. 

Rebounding and protect struggles 

Vanderbilt was outrebounded 39-27 by Arkansas connected Tuesday night. 

Arkansas outrebounded Vanderbilt 10-9 connected nan violative glass

Vanderbilt is now past successful nan SEC successful protect ratio done convention play, past successful force two-point percent and is 13th successful effective section extremity percentage. 

Vanderbilt’s numbers connected nan solid connected nan play don’t bespeak it has a problem, but its SEC metrics bespeak that this wasn’t a fluke. The Commodores are past successful nan SEC successful violative rebounding percent and eighth successful protect rebounding. They’ve been outrebounded by 7.16 rebounds per crippled successful convention play. 

It’s past clip to interest astir those evident deficiencies.

SEC regular play title implications

In nan past 10 seasons, nan SEC victor has mislaid 2 convention games aliases much successful a statement conscionable 3 times. Every squad has mislaid two-games aliases more, but only six convention winners person mislaid 3 aliases much games successful conference. Three convention winners person mislaid four-games aliases more.

Vanderbilt has now mislaid three-consective games and has seemingly fallen retired of nan SEC title race–at slightest for now. Only 1 SEC champion successful nan past 10 years has endured a three-game losing streak, now Vanderbilt has. 

KenPom has this season’s projected convention winner–Florida–projected to suffer 4 games by nan clip this is each said and done. No squad is projected by nan exemplary to travel wrong a crippled of Florida–Vanderbilt and Alabama were projected to decorativeness successful a necktie for 2nd pinch six losses anterior to Tuesday night.