Vanderbilt played approximately 15 minutes of decent-to-good basketball, 25 minutes of bad basketball, and still found itself down just four points in the final minute at Florida on Wednesday night.
Or, more specifically — and we’ll get to this in a minute — Vanderbilt had two players play really good basketball, three players play okay basketball, and four play bad basketball.
Vanderbilt played Florida to a virtual draw for about six and a half minutes to open the game; it was 11-9, Gators, with 13:26 left in the first half. Florida then outscored Vanderbilt 14-6 over the next five minutes or so, before Vanderbilt went on a 10-2 run to close it to within two points — but Florida outscored Vanderbilt 10-4 over the final 5:52 of the first half.