Vanderbilt will put the nation’s fourth-highest scoring offense on show when it hosts Texas Southern in Nashville on Thursday.
The Commodores (4-0) are averaging 101.5 factors per recreation, having reached triple figures in three of their 4 contests.
Vanderbilt shoots 52.9% from the ground, 40.3% from 3-point vary and 74.7% from the road.
Duke Miles (16.3 factors per recreation), Tyler Tanner (15.0), Tyler Harris (14.8), Tyler Nickel (14.0), AK Okereke (12.0), Frankie Collins (9.7) and Devin McGlockton (9.5) are a part of a balanced scoring effort.
The Commodores, who examine in at No. 24 within the coaches’ ballot, rank No. 4 in line with KenPom.com in adjusted offensive effectivity.
Nonetheless, the schedule hasn’t precisely supplied robust assessments. Vanderbilt’s opponents are 4-14 in opposition to Division I groups.
The Commodores’ relative weak spot to date is inside play. With 6-foot-10 Jacksonville State switch Mason Nicholson nonetheless out, an additional burden has been positioned on 6-7 McGlockton, who leads the crew in rebounding (7.8 per recreation).
“Within the first half, when he obtained two fouls, I believed it type of set us again a little bit bit. We misplaced some momentum,” Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington mentioned after his crew’s 104-75 residence win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Saturday.
McGlockton completed the sport with 17 factors and 9 rebounds in 26 minutes.
Texas Southern coach Johnny Jones is conversant in Vanderbilt, having confronted the Commodores in his enjoying tenure inside the Southeastern Convention at LSU and later whereas serving as LSU’s coach between 2012-17.
Texas Southern struggled in its two video games in opposition to top-tier opponents, falling 98-43 to Gonzaga within the season opener and 104-70 to Texas A&M.
The Tigers have 13 gamers on their roster listed as seniors or graduate college students. Troy Hupstead (19.7 ppg) and Zaire Hayes (14.0) are amongst that group, and so they lead the Tigers in scoring. Neither performed vs. Gonzaga, and Hayes did not play in opposition to A&M.
In Texas Southern’s newest outing, Hupstead put up 19 factors and Hayes had 17 in a 77-67 highway loss to Texas State on Saturday.
–Area Degree Media
