The unbearable awkwardness of Vanderbilt facing (Jarred) Vanderbilt

For the first time this season and in his young career, Kentucky forward Jarred Vanderbilt will face the Vanderbilt Commodores, and from best we can tell (i.e. a quick search in Sports Reference) this is the first time a member of the Vanderbilt clan has taken up arms against his own family.

We kid. The Wikipedia article on the Vanderbilt family makes no mention of young Jarred, and in any case Jarred bears a certain non-resemblance to Cornelius, so we can safely assume he is not actually a scion of the benefactor of Vanderbilt University.

Still, we can’t help but notice that in addition to being named Jarred Vanderbilt, among the 134 people that Jarred Vanderbilt follows on Twitter: Darius…