“I want to keep everyone in my camp focused on what we did to get here because we’re not there yet,” Shea Ralph said. “The kids say to keep the main thing, the main thing.” Ralph’s main priority this week will be getting the Vanderbilt Commodores geared up to have their best chance at winning.
No matter the season, life in the SEC is always very difficult. With a combination of talented veterans, impressive recruits and some of the best coaches in the nation, the result is typically one of college basketball’s most competitive conferences top to bottom. Year in and year out, teams in the SEC compete in some.
Just a little over a month and a half ago, Vanderbilt Women’s Basketball was riding the high of entering conference play 13-1, the only blemish on its record being a close loss to No. 3 NC State. Now, through 11 games against SEC opponents, the Commodores are 18-7, 5-6 in conference games and currently sit.
“We haven’t been able to get over the hump, but it was great to get over it today,” Jerry Stackhouse said after Vanderbilt’s 68-61 win over Missouri. In Year 5 of the Stackhouse regime, “getting over the hump” doesn’t mean making the NCAA Tournament, competing for the SEC title or even getting ranked in the.
On this edition of Anchor Analysis, Lead Sports Analyst David Hernandez and Staff Writer Adam Burns discuss Vanderbilt Women’s Basketball’s 85-62 loss to No. 13 LSU on Thursday, Feb. 8. The Commodores were outrebounded 57-35 and had one of their worst shooting performances of the season en route to a 23-point defeat. Iyana Moore tallied.