What: Mississippi Rebels (12-6, 0-3 SEC) at Vanderbilt Commodores (12-4, 1-2) Where: Memorial Gymnasium (14,316), Nashville, Tenn.
When: 8 p.m. CST, Wednesday
TV: CSS
Radio: Nashville: 97.1 FM
Rankings: Both teams are unranked
Warren Nolan RPI: Vanderbilt 23, Ole Miss 82
The line: Vanderbilt by 11
Sagarin prediction: Vanderbilt by 14
Pomeroy prediction: Vanderbilt 81, Ole Miss 66 (VU has a 90 percent chance of victory)
Series record: Vanderbilt leads 71-39, and won in Oxford last year
VANDERBILT COMMODORES STARTERS | | MISSISSIPPI REBELS STARTERS |
Player | Ht. | Wt. | Cl. | PPG | RPG |
Pos. | Player | Ht. | Wt. | Cl. | PPG | RPG |
Brad Tinsley | 6-3 | 210 | Jr. | 9.7 | 4.6 |
PG |
Chris Warren | 5-10 | 168 | Sr. | 18.4 | 2.2 |
John Jenkins | 6-4 | 215 | So. | 18.6 | 2.9 |
SG |
Trevor Gaskins | 6-2 | 213 | Jr. | 8.8 | 3.1 |
Jeffery Taylor | 6-7 | 225 | Jr. | 14.5 | 4.9 |
SF |
Zach Graham | 6-6 | 210 | Sr. | 14.3 | 4.3 |
Lance Goulbourne | 6-8 | 230 | Jr. | 7.9 | 7.3 |
PF |
Reginald Buckner | 6-9 | 238 | So. | 7.4 | 6.7 |
Festus Ezeli | 6-11 | 255 | Jr. | 12.7 | 6.7 |
C |
Steadman Short | 6-9 | 230 | Jr. | 3.6 | 4.1 |
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Preview
Few teams probably feel worse about the way their Southeastern Conference season started than Vanderbilt, and the Commodores will be facing one of them on Wednesday night. Ole Miss, a team many felt would win the SEC West this season, finds itself winless and coming to a place it hasn't won in __ years, when the Rebels face a VU team coming off two heart-breaking losses in three games to start the season.
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