18/15 Vanderbilt (18-3, 5-3 SEC) vs. Ole Miss (11-9, 3-4 SEC)
Saturday, Jan. 31 • 5 p.m. CT
Memorial Gymnasium • Nashville, Tenn.
SEC Network • 94.9 The Fan • Game Notes • Game Day Central
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — No. 18 Vanderbilt men’s basketball hosts Ole Miss Saturday evening in a 5 p.m. tip at Memorial Gymnasium on SEC Network. The game was relocated from Oxford, Mississippi, following the impacts of last weekend’s winter storm on the area.
Fans can also tune in on 94.9 The Fan and the Vanderbilt Athletics app to listen to Kevin Ingram and Tim Thompson’s view of the action.
TICKETS
All season, single-game and mini-plan tickets previously purchased for the Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss game scheduled for March 4 will be valid on Saturday. All parking passes will also be valid for the date change. Fans should see updated tickets in their accounts reflecting the date and time change later today.
Tickets in the second and third levels of Memorial Gymnasium will be 50 percent off and start as low as $10 for Saturday’s game. Fans can purchase tickets at VUCommodores.com.
BACK-TO-BACK BEATDOWNS
- For the first time since 1988, Vanderbilt engineered back-to-back 25-plus point victories over SEC foes. The Dores went to Mississippi State to rout the Bulldogs 88-56, then returned home to trounce Kentucky 80-55.
- The two games also marked the first time the Commodores have held consecutive SEC opponents to 56 or fewer points since 2017.
- Kentucky’s 55 points marked the Wildcats’ fewest since 2023.
- In the two games, Vandy held its opponents to just 39-of-117 (.333) from the field and 11-of-50 from three (.220).
- The Dores also wreaked havoc defensively, forcing 32 turnovers across the two wins and cashing in 56 points off those turnovers.
GLOCK GETTING GOING
- Devin McGlockton recorded his third double-double of the season with 10 points and 11 rebounds in the win over Kentucky.
- It was his second double-double in SEC action after a 10-point, 12-board night against Alabama.
- McGlockton has quietly hit double figures in three-straight games and now 13 times on the season.
1,000 FOR NICKEL
- Senior Tyler Nickel surpassed the 1,000-point plateau in the Kentucky win. Most of that damage has come in his two seasons at Vanderbilt where he has scored 657 of his 1,001 points.
- Nickel is averaging a career-best 14.9 points per game. He ranks atop the SEC and sixth nationally in three-point shooting at 45.8 percent.
- He also leads the SEC and ranks 10th nationally in threes per game and total threes this season.
- Following the Kentucky game, Nickel leads the country in offensive RAPM, according to CBB Analytics, a measure of impact while on the floor.
SERIES HISTORY
- Vanderbilt and Ole Miss meet for the first of two games this season on Saturday. The Dores lead the all-time series 80-49 and 46-10 in Nashville.
- The two programs flipped the scheduled home-and-home this season due to the winter weather impacts in Oxford. Vandy will now make the return trip on March 3 or 4.
