Vanderbilt’s last game of the season, a 68-66 loss to Northwestern in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, almost feels like a microcosm of Matthew Fisher-Davis’s season.
The junior led the team with 22 points and almost single-handedly brought Vanderbilt back from a 15-point deficit in the second half. He also committed a foul in the final minute that might have cost Vanderbilt the game... but then, it was a game that Vanderbilt would have never even had a chance to win if not for Matthew Fisher-Davis.
Given the makeup of Vanderbilt’s roster going into 2016-17, it was fairly obvious that Fisher-Davis was going to play a bigger role than he had his first two years, when he was a role player on an offense that featured Damian Jones and Wade Baldwin IV.