Vanderbilt is great at knocking off the nation’s No. 1 team in Nashville. In basketball.
Kevin Stallings notched back-to-back seasons with victories over the NCAA’s top-ranked teams in 2007 and 2008, toppling SEC rivals Florida and Tennessee. Derek Mason can get halfway there by beating No. 1 Alabama Saturday afternoon.
He’ll have to do it as a 19.5-point underdog. The Commodores have only given up 13 points on the season. Alabama only beat Colorado State, at home, by 18 points. Those two facts should give you a pretty good idea of what the betting public thinks about these two teams.