Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

Playing Tennessee State is a great way to come back from exams.  TSU’s not very good, not even a “tricky midmajor.”  Now watch them go out and blow it.
Congrats to UTK and Ole Miss, the only two SEC programs in this sport worth a damn this year. Nice wins today.
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Special thanks to guest blogger Jake Lowery for this article. VandySports readers know that Jake and I share a lot of opinions regarding sports stats.
Commodore fans continue to cheer on the first team in the nation to reach a 10-0 record. The Dores seem to be on their way to a longer undefeated [...]

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In a discussion on whether “Kentucky will always be Kentucky” on VS, I offered the following:
…I’d say Kentucky has a certain long-term structural advantage that’s pretty much unique among SEC basketball programs.    Namely, to most of the people in that state UK hoops is <b>THE</b> sport about which to obsess over. [...]

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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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