Vanderbilt head coach Bobby Johnson has abruptly retired just weeks before the start of the season.
The head coach said that there was nothing that caused him to retire other than he just lost his passion for the game.
Johnson said that coaching is so time consuming that he wanted to do other things before it was too late. (Read More…)
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Vanderbilt Commodores center A.J. Ogilvy has announced his intentions to enter the NBA Draft.
Ogilvy has also decided to hire an agent, which will not allow him to withdraw from the draft and return for his senior season.
The center must have took some bad advice from someone because he is a second round pick at best.
He is certainly a talented player, but lacks the ability to take over a game and is often considered to be soft.
Ogilvy’s height and mobility will help him draw attention, but he is going to have to show more toughness.
By Bud L. Ellis
The season ended with 24 wins and plenty of highlights. But for the Vanderbilt Commodores, the striking moment from the 2009-10 season likely will be the one that ended their NCAA Tournament dreams.
Danero Thomas’ buzzer-beating jumper pushed Murray State into the hall of Cinderella, and shoved the Commodores from the NCAA Tournament on Thursday with a 66-65 loss in the West Regional at San Jose, Calif.
For the second time in as many seasons, the fourth seed was not kind to Vandy (24-9). Last year, it was Siena pulling off the upset of the Commodores.
In what was a tight game throughout, the Commodores looked as if they might slip out of HP Pavilion with a narrow victory. Jermaine Beal sank two free throws with 12.7 seconds left to make it 65-64 Vandy. Murray State missed a shot at the other end, but the Commodores could not grab the rebound and it went out of bounds to the Racers with 4.2 seconds left.
John Jenkins led Vandy with 13 points.
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The No. 15 Vanderbilt Commodores couldn’t overcome a poor shooting night in a 58-56 loss to the No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats.
This is one of those games that Vanderbilt won’t forget for a long time because they had Kentucky right where they wanted them.
Both teams were locked into quite a defensive struggle thanks to some poor shooting all around.
Vanderbilt had a lead with just a few minutes to play in the game, but they were unable to hold onto it.
They also had a chance at the winning basket, but elected to try and launch another three-pointer instead of driving to the basket.
