Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

If you’re reading this you probably know by now that Maryland ended up beating Vanderbilt 78-74, with the Terps’ first lead coming with 1:01 in the game. This comment in my Twitter feed says it all: “Sorta reminds me of Gtown-VU MBB when we just took it to a favored opp from start.” [...]

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Christina Wirth - Image shamelessly stolen from Gary Stepic, VU official site
Vanderbilt women’s basketball looked really impressive in thumping Western Carolina 73-44. Wirth scored about a third of our points. I’ll try the Pomeroy thing — pace in number of possessions must have been, uh, shot attempts minus offensive rebounds plus [...]

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I’d be remiss not to post something on the great run of form both Vanderbilt basketball teams have exhibited since the middle of February.  Game-related details really aren’t my thing so I don’t have much to offer about the actual games.   In the overall, though, I’m quite satisfied with the way both teams have performed [...]

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I don’t really feel up to a long-form season preview right now, but it definitely seems fitting to mark the start of the season.    The women have the potential for something really special.   The writers picked them to win the SEC, and although I hate to start burdening them with crushing expectations, the [...]

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The WBB team’s success reminds me that there is life after the end of MBB season and before I really get into baseball. In their honor, it’s time to review some of the other winter and spring sports that no one really cares about, so that I can elicit a groan from the [...]

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I still have a few thoughts about the men’s season and tournament rattling around, but I’m remiss not to spend more time talking about the 4th-seeded Vanderbilt that actually plays good defense and rebounds well.   To my embarrassment I bought a $25 season ticket for this season and then never went to any games, so [...]

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I suppose if there’s a time to take a couple-of-week hiatus from writing about Vanderbilt sports, this would be the best time other than the summer to do it.
I did mean to write a season retrospective, but frankly, the way the season ended was so insipid that it’s hard to feel like writing about it. [...]

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For Vanderbilt at least. I didn’t mean to ignore our upset loss to Bowling Green. Just got busy with other sportsblogging today.
I know nothing about what happened in the game because ESPN didn’t consider Huntsville “local” enough to show us the VU game, instead going for that North Carolina - Notre Dame game [...]

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Today started Vanderbilt’s participation in the women’s NCAA. The Dores beat Delaware State 62-47, but it was close for at least 30 minutes.  I guess you bash your own team for making it close when they’re a 2-seed, but i’d rather give credit to Del State, even though i have no clue [...]

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I’m evil. I missed church, not to watch the beginning of Virginia-Tennessee, exactly, but because i overslept and didn’t want the embarrassment of showing up late for the umpteenth straight time. So onward….
Virginia - Tennessee (-3), Columbus: Someone told me UVa was the betting favorite, maybe my notoriously po’ mouthing [...]

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