We’re just a week away from the start of college basketball season, and Joe Lunardi has released his first bracketology of the new season. The Vanderbilt Commodores are in the “First Four Out” of the field of 68 (along with two other SEC teams, Arkansas and Georgia.)
Vanderbilt returns three starters off a team that went 19-14 and lost in last year’s opening round. That suggests that Lunardi sees a minimal dropoff in spite of the losses of Damian Jones and Wade Baldwin IV, both of whom are now playing in the NBA. Perhaps further growth from players like Joe Toye and Jeff Roberson, along with the return of Luke Kornet and Matthew Fisher-Davis, will help make up for the losses of the two stars.