Vanderbilt at Kentucky Predictions/Updates

[16thBBall Fan]

The Commadores of Vandy (8-21) (3-13) travel up from Nashville to take on the Cats of Kentucky (21-8) (11-5) in the Cats last home game this season. The game is not until 9:00pm on Wednesday night on the SECN. Vandy is coming off a 14 point home loss to LSU 75-61. The Cats are coming off a hard fought home win over Arkansas 111-102. Go Cats!!

[MJAlltheWay24]

Must win for MJ. Need one more SEC win to hit my Over 11.5 SEC Wins bet.

[MJAlltheWay24]

Got the itch. Heading back Wednesday and sitting in the nose bleeds this time.

Let's go Cats!

[Voice of Reason]

UK is tied with Auburn for 4th. They will catch either South Carolina or Tennessee if they win their last two games.

[futurecoach]

9 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

UK is tied with Auburn for 4th. They will catch either South Carolina or Tennessee if they win their last two games.

Only problem with catching South Carolina is South Carolina will have the tiebreaker. If UK catches Tennessee, then that means they would have split their games for the year and I have no idea how the tie breaker works for that. I would assume they may use NET rankings, which doesn’t help UK then. 

[bugatti]

20 minutes ago, futurecoach said:

Only problem with catching South Carolina is South Carolina will have the tiebreaker. If UK catches Tennessee, then that means they would have split their games for the year and I have no idea how the tie breaker works for that. I would assume they may use NET rankings, which doesn’t help UK then. 

I just looked it up and the tiebreakers work like this:

1) Head-to-head
2) Best winning % versus the highest seeded common opponent
3) Coin flip

Three-team (or more) tiebreaker

1) Best winning % of games played among the three teams
2) Best winning % of the tied teams vs. the highest seeded common opponent
3) Coin flip
4) Blind draw

If I am looking at it correctly, not one team has a top-four seed locked up. The path for UK to get a top 4 seed looks challenging. That LSU loss is going to come back to bite them. You can say the same about the Florida loss, but they stole the game in Gainsville, so I am treating that as a wash.

[Voice of Reason]

3 hours ago, futurecoach said:

Only problem with catching South Carolina is South Carolina will have the tiebreaker. If UK catches Tennessee, then that means they would have split their games for the year and I have no idea how the tie breaker works for that. I would assume they may use NET rankings, which doesn’t help UK then. 

 

3 hours ago, bugatti said:

I just looked it up and the tiebreakers work like this:

1) Head-to-head
2) Best winning % versus the highest seeded common opponent
3) Coin flip

Three-team (or more) tiebreaker

1) Best winning % of games played among the three teams
2) Best winning % of the tied teams vs. the highest seeded common opponent
3) Coin flip
4) Blind draw

If I am looking at it correctly, not one team has a top-four seed locked up. The path for UK to get a top 4 seed looks challenging. That LSU loss is going to come back to bite them. You can say the same about the Florida loss, but they stole the game in Gainsville, so I am treating that as a wash.

Based on that, UK has the tiebreaker advantage on Auburn and Alabama. 

[SLINK]

Kentucky 94-76.

[nikeman49]

Ky 89

Dores 75

[Randy Parker]

I mean, they should win in fairly comfortable fashion.  But who knows?

[theguru]

This game is so late!

I can see some peeps falling asleep in the second half. 

[16thBBall Fan]

Vandy leads 6-4 at the first timeout. The Cats look a little out of sync here early hopefully due to the change in the normal lineup due to senior night and Kareem Watkins getting the start tonight.

[16thBBall Fan]

Vandy leads 11-10 at the under 12 timeout. 

[16thBBall Fan]

Timeout Kentucky with Vandy leading 22-16. Vandy has hit 3 three pointers and they all 3 have been wide open due to direct drives and players having to help to stop drives and they kick out for the open 3.

[16thBBall Fan]

Hey here is an interesting concept the Cats were 1-8 from 3 and after the Kentucky timeout Vandy switched up their defense and went to a 3-2.