Feb. 2, 2015
Vanderbilt Gamenotes 
| Florida Gamenotes
After playing four of their last five games on the road, Vanderbilt returns home for a three-game home stand which begins Tuesday night against Florida at Memorial Gym. The game tips off at 8 p.m. CT, and will be televised on ESPN and can be heard on the Vanderbilt IMG College Radio Network throughout Middle Tennessee.
The Commodores fell to 11-10 and 1-7 in SEC play after a 68-59 defeat in College Station, Texas, at Texas A&M. Wade Baldwin IV led the team with 12 points, his fifth double-figure scoring game of his career, with Riley LaChance and James Siakam each scoring 11 points,and Luke Kornet chipping in 10. For the game, the Aggies converted on 53.2% of their shots from the field, a single-game best by an opponent, and 58.3% from three. The Commodores shot 42.0% from the floor, and fell to 0-7 on the season when being outshot. The Commodores had 17 assists on 21 made baskets, and had 10 steals on the day, their most of the season.
Game 22/Vanderbilt (11-10, 1-7 SEC) vs. Florida (12-9, 5-3 SEC)
Nashville, Tenn. – Memorial Gym – 8 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN
TV Talent: Joe Tessitore (pxp), Kara Lawson (analyst)
Radio: Vanderbilt Radio Network from IMG College, vucommodores.com
Radio Talent: Joe Fisher (pxp), Tim Thompson (analyst)
Satellite Radio: Sirius 119, XM 191
Live Stats: vucommodores.com
Twitter Updates: @VandyMBB
Series Information
Series Record: VU leads, 64-62.
Last Meeting: UF win, 57-54, 2/25/14, in Nashville.
Record at Vanderbilt: VU leads, 41-15.
Record at Florida: UF leads, 41-21.
Record at Neutral Site: UF leads, 6-2.
Coach Stallings vs. Florida: Coach Stallings is 8-22 against Florida.
About Florida
Florida enters Tuesday’s game with a 12-9 overall record and a 5-3 mark in league play.
Dorian Finney-Smith leads the Gators in scoring, averaging 13.4 points per game. Michael Frazier also averages double digits at 13.0 points per game. Finney-Smith leads the team in rebounding with 5.7 per game.
Vanderbilt has a 41-15 record at home against the Gators.
LaChance leads all SEC Freshmen
Freshman Riley LaChance is the leading freshman scorer in the SEC at 12.4 points per game in all game, and is second among SEC freshmen in three’s made per contest at 1.9 per game, which is seventh in the conference overall. He won his second SEC Freshman of the Week award after averaging 16.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in wins over St. Louis and Yale. Earlier this year, he poured in a career-high 26 points in Vanderbilt’s win over Purdue on December 13 and then followed with another 26-point game against Western Carolina. It was the most points scored by a Commodore freshman since A.J. Ogilvy scored 27 points on March 13, 2008, in a first-round game of the SEC Tournament in Atlanta, and the first time a Commodore has scored 25 or more points in consecutive games since John Jenkins scored 26 at Ole Miss (2/16/12) and 28 at Georgia (2/19/12).
Freshmen Leaders
Riley LaChance leads all SEC freshmen in scoring at 12.4 ppg, while Wade Baldwin IV leads all freshmen in assists with 4.3 per contest. Shelton Mitchell is second among freshmen in assists with 3.8 per game.
Damian Jones leads Commodores
Sophomore post player Damian Jones is having a stellar sophomore campaign, averaging 15.2 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in the first 21 contests. Jones, a preseason All-SEC First Team selection by the league’s coaches, has scored 20+ points in five games this year and is second in the SEC in field goal percentage (.531), eighth in the SEC in scoring, ninth in rebounding, 3rd in blocks (1.9), 9th in defensive rebounding (4.5/game), and 9th in offensive rebounding (2.3)
Freshmen On Single-Season Lists
Baldwin IV is now 5th on single-season assist list for freshmen with 90, with Mitchell 8th on the list with 80. Atiba Prater has the all-time freshman single-season assist record with 103 in 1997. LaChance would be seventh on the freshman single-season scoring average list (12.4). Mike Rhodes is VU’s single-season freshman scoring average leader with 18.8 ppg, which came in the 1977-78 campaign.
More on Baldwin
Baldwin leads all freshmen in assists, and is 5th in the SEC in assists (4.3) and 2nd in A/TO ratio (2.5), and has had 15 steals in his last five games. Baldwin is tied for first in steals in SEC games only at 1.9 per game and already has more steals (31) than last year’s season leader, James Siakam, who had 28 for the entire season. He also won his first SEC Freshman of the Week honor earlier this season.
Stallings wins 300 vs. Penn, now has 303 Vanderbilt wins
Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings won his 300th game at Vanderbilt against Penn, becoming one of five SEC coaches to win 300 or more games at one institution, joining Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp, Florida’s Billy Donovan, and LSU’s Dale Brown and Harry Rabenhorst.
Vanderbilt among SEC leaders
The Commodores lead the SEC in FG% with 47.1%, and have shot 50% or better in eight games this year. VU is also 1st in 3-Pt FG% (.371) and 3rd in assists (15.2).
Dores 2015 Recruiting Class Ranked 20th by ESPN
Head Coach Kevin Stallings recently signed four players to National Letters of Intent for next season – Djery Baptiste, a 6’11 center from Plano, Texas, Camron Justice, a 6’2 guard from Hindman, Kentucky, Samir Sehic, a 6’9 forward from Cypress, Texas, and Joseph Toye, a 6’7 wing from Chicago, each signed with the Commodores on the first day of the signing period on November 12. The quartet was recently named the 20th-best class in the nation according to ESPN.com.
SEC’s Youngest Backcourt
The Commodores’ freshman backcourt is the youngest in the SEC. In fact, Vanderbilt is the only school in the league to start three freshmen at the three guard spots.
Young Commodores
According to KenPom.com, Vanderbilt is number 348 out of 351 Division I playing schools in terms of experience at 0.72 years. The average years of experience across the 351 schools is 1.67 years.
Three-Point Streak Still Intact
Vanderbilt has made a 3-pointer in 917 consecutive games, a streak which began at the inception of the 3-point line in 1986-87. The Commodores rank second only to UNLV for the longest streak in Division I basketball. Vanderbilt, UNLV and Princeton are the only three schools in college basketball to have made at least one 3-pointer in every game played since the 3-point line was implemented.
Frontcourt Height
Vanderbilt’s starting frontline of 7-0, 6-10 & 6-6 is the second tallest in the SEC in terms of average height. Kentucky – 82.3 inches; Vanderbilt – 81.3 inches; LSU – 81.3 inches.