The Vanderbilt Commodores host the High Point Panthers tonight, and the Commodores enter the game with a 4-4 record — with losses to Marquette, Bucknell, Butler, and Minnesota.
While none of those losses by themselves are truly embarrassing (even Bucknell is actually kinda-sorta decent; they’re 6-3 and ranked #139 in KenPom), so far this season Vanderbilt hasn’t even remotely resembled an NCAA Tournament team — and at times, they haven’t even looked like an NIT team.
What’s wrong with Vanderbilt? And are these problems fixable?
One of the hard parts to answering that question is that in each of the four losses, it’s been something different.