FAYETTEVILLE -- Vanderbilt will have to pull off the near impossible and beat No. 13 Kentucky in Rupp Arena on Wednesday to keep from losing its 25th consecutive SEC regular-season game.
And if the Commodores don't shock college basketball with an upset of the Wildcats, they will break a record of futility going on 80 years strong.
Sewanee and Vanderbilt are currently tied for the longest SEC regular-season losing streak at 24 games. Sewanee's streak was still active when the school elected to exit the SEC in 1940.
Vanderbilt has not won an in-season conference game since an 82-69 upset at Ole Miss on March 3, 2017, in the Commodores' final regular-season game that year.