It is easy to look at Vanderbilt’s 6-4 start to the 2021-22 season and think, “here we go again.”
Slow starts have been a feature for Vanderbilt basketball over the last few years. Last year’s team only played six games prior to the SEC opener, but went 4-2 in those games. The 2019-20 team went 8-5; 2018-19 went 9-3 (but of course, we remember what happened after that...) The 2017-18 team was 5-7; the 2016-17 team was 6-6. Incredibly, you have to go all the way back to 2010-11 to find at Vanderbilt team that got through the nonconference portion of the schedule with fewer than three losses.