Anchor Drop, February 23, 2023: And then there was baseball

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Well, that was a fun couple of weeks, but after winning five games in a row, Vanderbilt went to last-place LSU and... lost 84-77 last night. Vanderbilt wasted a great performance by Liam Robbins (23 points, 11 rebounds, 9 blocks) and weirdly didn’t play Jordan Wright and Myles Stute much. Not that either of them were playing well. Anyway, whatever slim chances Vanderbilt had at an at-large bid are pretty much out the window now: LSU counts as a Quad 3 loss, and unlike Southern Miss, that feels like a legit Quad 3 loss as opposed to the computers just hating us. This also means that “teams from Louisiana called the Tigers” now account for…