Nov 15, 2025; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Vanderbilt Commodores guard Tyler Tanner (3) shoots underneath the arm of Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions ahead Milhan Charles (9) through the second half at Memorial Gymnasium. Necessary Credit score: Steve Roberts-Imagn Pictures Vanderbilt will put the nation’s fourth-highest scoring offense on show when it hosts Texas Southern in Nashville on Thursday.
The Commodores (4-0) are averaging 101.5 factors per sport, having reached triple figures in three of their 4 contests.
Vanderbilt shoots 52.9% from the ground, 40.3% from 3-point vary and 74.7% from the road.
Duke Miles (16.3 factors per sport), Tyler Tanner (15.0), Tyler Harris (14.8), Tyler Nickel (14.0), AK Okereke (12.0), Frankie Collins (9.7) and Devin McGlockton (9.5) are a part of a balanced scoring effort.
The Commodores, who verify in at No. 24 within the coaches’ ballot, rank No. 4 in accordance with KenPom.com in adjusted offensive effectivity.
Nevertheless, the schedule hasn’t precisely supplied robust exams. Vanderbilt’s opponents are 4-14 towards Division I groups.
The Commodores’ relative weak point to this point is inside play. With 6-foot-10 Jacksonville State switch Mason Nicholson nonetheless out, an additional burden has been positioned on 6-7 McGlockton, who leads the staff in rebounding (7.8 per sport).
“Within the first half, when he bought two fouls, I assumed it type of set us again a bit of bit. We misplaced some momentum,” Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington mentioned after his staff’s 104-75 residence win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Saturday.
McGlockton completed the sport with 17 factors and 9 rebounds in 26 minutes.
Texas Southern coach Johnny Jones is conversant in Vanderbilt, having confronted the Commodores in his enjoying tenure inside the Southeastern Convention at LSU and later whereas serving as LSU’s coach between 2012-17.
Texas Southern struggled in its two video games towards top-tier opponents, falling 98-43 to Gonzaga within the season opener and 104-70 to Texas A&M.
The Tigers have 13 gamers on their roster listed as seniors or graduate college students. Troy Hupstead (19.7 ppg) and Zaire Hayes (14.0) are amongst that group, they usually lead the Tigers in scoring. Neither performed vs. Gonzaga, and Hayes did not play towards A&M.
In Texas Southern’s newest outing, Hupstead put up 19 factors and Hayes had 17 in a 77-67 highway loss to Texas State on Saturday.
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