Nov. 25, 2008
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Vanderbilt Commodores will play their second home game of the Cancun Challenge Wednesday night when Central Arkansas comes to Nashville for a 7 p.m. tip off.
Joe Fisher and Tim Thompson will call the action for the Vanderbilt-ISP Radio Network. There will be no television broadcast of the game.
The Commodores won their second game of the season Monday night when they defeated Middle Tennessee State, 65-57, at Memorial Gym. Vanderbilt never trailed in the contest, and limited the Blue Raiders to 30.4 percent shooting from the floor (17-56). The Commodores also out-rebounded MTSU, 42-30, including a 26-14 advantage in the first half, and went to the free-throw line 30 times, where VU converted 73.3 percent of its opportunities (22-30).
Vanderbilt was led by sophomore center A.J. Ogilvy, who tallied the fifth double-double of his career, and his first of the 2008-09 season, with a 19-point, 11-rebound effort against the Blue Raiders. Freshman Jeffery Taylor also garnered a double-double, his career first, with a 13-point, 11-rebound performance, while junior, point guard Jermaine Beal added 12 points, and freshman guard Brad Tinsley tallied 10.
Ogilvy and Taylor’s double-doubles marked the first time two Vanderbilt players have had a double-double in the same game since since Anthony Williams and Matt Freije accomplished the feat versus Birmingham Southern on Dec. 5, 2000.
Vanderbilt and Central Arkansas will meet for the first time on Wednesday night. Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings has never faced the Bears in his career.
Central Arkansas, of the Southland Conference, enters the game with a 2-1 record after defeating Bacone and UNC-Greensboro at home. The Bears’ lone loss is to Northwestern on the road in their season opener.
Marcus Pillow leads all Bear scorers at 13.0 points per game. Vanderbilt will face off against a Southland Conference team for only the third time in the program’s history. The Commodores have a 2-0 record against the league.
So far this season, the Commodores have had six players score in double figures, and three (Ogilvy, Taylor, Tinsley) who have scored in double-figures in every game thus far. Ogilvy is the team’s leading scorer, averaging 14.7 points per contest.
Vanderbilt has made its mark on the defensive end of the floor in the early goings of the year, limiting opponents to a 58.0 average in the first three games, the lowest opponent three-game average since the 2005-06 season, when the Commodores held Jackonsvillle State, Furman and UNC-Greensboro to an average of 53.0 points a game to begin the season.