Anchor Drop, November 14, 2023: UNC Greensboro Tonight

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Vanderbilt basketball hosts UNC Greensboro tonight, which when the nonconference schedule was released looked like one of those sneaky-tough games that Vanderbilt wouldn’t get any respect for winning and now looks like “oh yeah, they can absolutely lose that game” after a week in which the Commodores lost to Presbyterian and needed a second-half rally to hold off USC Upstate. Tipoff tonight is at 7 PM CT on the SEC Network+.

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