NASHVILLE—Vanderbilt basketball will get its first real test Thursday. Time to see if it can answer the call.
Mark Byington and company will face Wake Forest as the Demon Deacons return a home and home that started with Vanderbilt running them off the floor in Winston Salem a year ago. Both rosters are almost entirely different now, though, and neither has faced a power-five opponent in a regular season game yet. Now, both will get a litmus test of sorts.
Here’s three keys to Vanderbilt passing that test and a prediction as to whether it will or not.