Anchor Drop, December 23, 2022: What the hell are we watching?

Good morning.

Optional Musical Accompaniment

Vanderbilt basketball beat Alabama A&M yesterday, 70-62. That’s probably the nicest thing I can say about it: that they won the game. The Commodores fell behind 19-11 in the first half before going on a 23-3 run, and yet, this was a one-point game with three minutes left. Against the #330 team in KenPom (and unlike Southern Miss, which was similarly ranked early in the season, Alabama A&M is actually that bad of a team.) Look, here’s what Joey Dwyer from VandySports had to say about it:

Yeah. Pretty much. I’ll have longer form thoughts about the general state of the Vanderbilt basketball program at some point this weekend, if not today. The general…