Welcome To The Ant Brown Experience, Memorial Gymnasium

NASHVILLE—Tyler Tanner rose from sitting just beyond the sideline around Memorial Gymnasium’s halfcourt line and walked towards the floor to check in with 5:52 left in Vanderbilt’s Thursday-night win over Wake Forest. As he did so, the crowd came to its feet and raised the volume of the gym significantly.

But, the ovation wasn’t for Tanner.

No, that was for the star of Thursday night. That was for Ant Brown. That was for Vanderbilt’s best freshman since Tanner, who has Tanner’s blessing to be the next guy here when he inevitably heads to the NBA.

“He’s the one,” Tanner told Vandy On SI prior to Brown playing his first game in a Vanderbilt uniform. “He’s my dawg. He's gonna surprise a lot of…