It will also be the third time in Vanderbilt history that multiple players will be selected in the same draft, and could be just the second time two players are selected in the first round. In 1974, Jan Van Breda Kolff and Bill Ligon were both selected in the Draft, and in 2012, John Jenkins and Festus Ezeli were selected in the first round, while Jeff Taylor was taken with the first pick in the second round.
This year’s pair of Commodores headed into the draft were statistically the two best players for the Commodores. Baldwin and Jones were first and second on the team in points per game this past season with 14.