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Vanderbilt Commodores
Vanderbilt Commodores athletic logo
University Vanderbilt University
Conference SEC
Location Nashville, TN
Head Coach Kevin Stallings (8th year)
Arena Memorial Gymnasium
(Capacity: 14,316)
Nickname Commodores
Colors Black and Gold

             
Conference Tournament Champions
1951
Conference Regular Season Champions
1965, 1974, 1993


The Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team represents Vanderbilt University in the East Division of the Southeastern Conference. The Commodores have won three SEC regular season titles (1965, 1974 and 1993). They have competed in nine NCAA Tournaments, making it to the Elite Eight once (1965) and the Sweet 16 five times (1974, 1988, 1993, 2004 and 2007). Vanderbilt has played in nine National Invitation Tournaments, winning it in 1990 and finishing runners-up in 1994.

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[edit] History

[edit] Origins

In the fall of 1891, Dr. James Naismith created a new, indoor sport to avoid the bitter winter weather in Springfield, Massachusetts. Naismith was asked to instruct the physical activities for the participants of the Young Men's Christian Association Training School (later Springfield College). Naismith's solution was to invent the game of "basket ball." Peach baskets were secured from the custodian and hung from the gym's balcony, which just happened to be 10 feet from the floor. He devised a set of rules that required nine players on a team and a soccer ball. The number of players on a team was derived to accommodate the 18 students in Naismith's original class. The new game began to spread within the United States and was the winter sport for the YMCAs in the country. Eventually, colleges and athletic clubs acquired the game for their use. Nashville, with its YMCA and athletic clubs, was quick to learn the game.

Interest in the game at Vanderbilt University was evident when the university's newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler, printed the rules in its December 21, 1893 edition.[1] At the time, football, baseball and track were the featured sports on the Commodore campus. [2] The Old Gym, which still exists today, housed these basketball games.

[edit] The first game

The first known basketball game played by Vanderbilt as a team sport is recorded in the Comet, the university's yearbook. The Comet reviews the 1893 "season," a 9-6 victory over the Nashville YMCA team. Also included in this yearbook are the names and positions of the nine Vanderbilt players. Basketball became popular for several years as an intramural winter game on the Vanderbilt campus. [3] Then in February 1899, Dr. William L. Dudley, the Vanderbilt University Athletic Association's President, sent a letter to The Vanderbilt Hustler, expressing his concerns about the safety of the sport and how injuries sustained by Vanderbilt tracksters while playing a basketball game had led to Vanderbilt's losing the 1898 Southern track tournament. [4]

[edit] Official sanction

Dudley's advice to the students went unheeded, as a team was formed to accept a challenge from the YMCA in what would be Vanderbilt's first "official" games. A three-game series was scheduled with the YMCA, the first contest played on December 15, 1900.[5] W.D. Weatherford became the first Commodore coach, and he had only one week's worth of practice to prepare Vandy for the more experienced men at the YMCA.[6] By this time, the number of players on a team was carved down to five. Weatherford's starters were Walter Simmons, Ernest Reese, Tom Motlow, Herbert Gannaway and E.L. Woolf.[7]

The first game was played at the Y's gymnasium and the host won, 22-19. The Commodores faced a problem as a visiting team. They were not accustomed to the goals, as a writer for Hustler reported. The game was handicapped by lack of team work, having had only one week's practice, while Nashville's team work was excellent, the team being for the most part composed of men who have played together for several years. Another handicap to the Varsity was the fact that the baskets, instead of having solid wood backing from which the ball wound rebound, as the rules require, had wire netting behind them and a ball pitched just above the basket would almost invariably drop in it. The Y. M. C. A. team was accustomed to the gymnasium and made use of this fact, in pitching goals. Vanderbilt trailed the game at halftime, 16-4 when a Commodore comeback was led by Simmons "who was all over the floor and who pitched nearly all of the goals." With two minutes left in the game, Vandy cut the lead to 20-19, but the final basket by the Y-men ended the game, 22-19.

The second game of the series was played the following February with a surprising 24-9 Vanderbilt victory. Preceding the game on the Y's gym was a gymnastic exhibition provided by members of the Vanderbilt gymnastic team. The final game of the series was played in March as Hustler reported:

In the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium on Tuesday evening the basket ball team won the third and deciding game of the series with the Y. M. C. A. team by the very close score of 14 to 12. The Y. M. C. A. team's play was surprisingly strong and the game was very exciting.
At the end of the last half the score stood 8-6 in favor of Vanderbilt. In the last four minutes of play Y. M. C. A. secured a lead of 2 points, but the Varsity immediately pitched another goal, making the score a tie, 12 to 12 at the end of the second half. In deciding the tie the play was fast and furious, but Perry finally landed the ball in the basket, winning the game for the Varsity.[8]

The final game of Vanderbilt's inaugural basketball season was played a week later at the Nashville Athletic Club. The gymnasium was packed "and the crowd was about evenly divided in its sympathies," as the Commodores lost 13-11.[9]

[edit] Intercollegiate play

The Vanderbilt basketball tradition began in the Old Gym. With the growth of basketball, leagues were formed with Vanderbilt eventfully joining the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Southern Conference and, finally, a founding member of the Southeastern Conference. As the sport gained popularity in the South, Vanderbilt struggled to find an appropriate home in which to play its intercollegiate games. The Old Gym was used as a practice site and too small to accommodate a meaningful crowd. The Commodores would schedule future games at the old Nashville Hippodrome, YMCA, area high schools and David Lipscomb College's McQuiddy Gym.[10]

Then on December 6, 1952, the dedication game of the university's long-awaited campus gym was played against the University of Virginia. Memorial Gymnasium was named for the Vanderbilt alumni who died in World War II.[11]

[edit] Bob Polk Era (1947-1961)

February 27, 1947 was a date that began major changes in the Vanderbilt basketball program. Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats smashed the Commodores 98-29 in the SEC Tournament held that year in Louisville.

Attending that humiliating game for Vanderbilt was athletics director and head football coach Red Sanders. Sanders came back to Nashville realizing he needed better players, a gymnasium and a new full-time basketball coach. In the past, Vanderbilt's basketball coaches were usually former basketball players or assistant coaches from other sports.

After interviewing several candidates, a Georgia Tech assistant coach named Bob Polk was hired. Before Polk's arrival on the Vanderbilt campus, games were held at area high schools. Practices were held at the Old Gym Annex located on the campus.

Polk was paid a controversial five thousand dollars a year in salary. He also secured a quonset hut on Thompson Lane for home games, which was the Navy Classification Center. Polk was also assured that plans would be made for a new gymnasium. Polk sold 16 season tickets that first year and personally chalked numbers in front of the season ticket holder's seats.

Another mission for Polk was to find scholorship basketball players, which Vanderbilt never offered in that sport. Polk dipped into his home state of basketball-crazed Indiana to sign Gene Southwood, Jack Heldman and Dave Kardokus. Sanders had secured Nashville's West High School's Billy Joe Adcock as the Commodore's first basketball-only scholarship player before Polk's arrival.

Polk's first season resulted in an 8-14 (SEC, 4-11) record, his only losing season at Vanderbilt. The next year his team was 14-8 (SEC, 9-5) losing to Kentucky 72-50 in Nashville and 70-37 at Kentucky.

Now that his first scholarship players were experienced, Vanderbilt gained national attention in 1949 with an overtime 65-50 victory over New York University at Madison Square Garden. The Commodores completed that 1949-50 season at 17-8 and second place (11-3) in the SEC. Vanderbilt lost twice to Kentucky that season by scores of 58-54 and 70-66. Progress had been made.

Other players to become Commodores in Polk's first few years were Bob Dudley Smith, Hank Duvier, George Kelly, Haworth Parks, and Pete Robinson. Adcock graduated after the 1949-50 season and became Vanderbilt's first All-American basketball player.

With Kelly as team captain, the Commodores would finish the 1950-51 season at 19-8 and once again tied for second place (10-4) in the SEC. At this time, David Lipscomb's McQuiddy Gym was home to Vanderbilt. The Commodores also loss both of their scheduled regular season games to Kentucky 74-49 and 89-57. The previous year the Commodores, with their No. 2 seed, were ousted from the SEC Tournament by Tennessee.

During the 1951 SEC Tournament in Louisville, Vanderbilt rolled by Tennessee, Georgia and LSU before playing Kentucky for the championship. The Wildcats had a super team with a great height advantage led by seven foot All-American center Bill Spivey. Other talented `Cat players on the roster were Frank Ramsey, Walt Hirsch, Bobby Watson and Cliff Hagan. Kentucky entered the tournament with a record of 27-1 (SEC, 14-0) and a No. 1 national ranking. Future Vanderbilt coach C.M. Newton was a substitute on that squad.

The Wildcats jumped out to an early lead, but Vanderbilt kept it close trailing at the half, 30-26. The Commodores trailed by 10 points in the second half before 7,000 fans who were mostly UK fans. But with 10 minutes to play in the game, Vanderbilt cut the lead to 48-47.

The lead would swap between teams until Kelly hit two free throws late in the game for a hard-fought 61-57 Commodore victory. It was such a huge upset that the championship trophy was already engraved with Kentucky as champions. The NCAA rule required the regular season champion of a conference to advance to the national tournament. Polk let his team vote whether to accept a post-season tournament if invited, but they declined. Kentucky continued on to become national champions in 1951.

The SEC Tournament was disbanded after the next season, but revived in 1979. The Commodores 1951 SEC Tournament championship is their only crown in either era.

The permanent home court promised Polk by the university became reality in 1952. Memorial Gymnasium played its first game that year in December against the University of Virginia. Vanderbilt won, 90-83. In Polk's eight years coaching in Memorial Gym, he recorded an amazing 96-15 mark.

During a recruiting trip in the fall of 1958, Polk was in Paducah, Kentucky when he became ill. Polk had a massive heart attack and spent three months in a Paducah hospital recuperating. When Polk returned to Nashville, he was bed-ridden. Forced to miss the 1958-59 season, his young assistant coach Roy Skinner became the interim.

Polk was back the next season with such players as Bobby Bland, Bill Depp, Bill Johnson and Ben Rowan. They would end the season at 14-9 (SEC, 7-7) with Depp and Rowan named to the All-SEC team.

One funny, but degrading moment came in Lubbock, Texas with Texas Tech. From the book Dynamite! 75 Years of Vanderbilt Basketball, Vanderbilt radio broadcaster Larry Munson gave this account of the incident:

"This one's going down to the wire, folks. Hang on. We've got Gish coming into the game. It'll be Vandy's ball out of bounds. Wait a minute. What's this? Gish has lost his pants! Bob Polk has pulled off Lance Gish's pants in front of six thousand screaming fans! The place is going crazy."

In the excitement of the game, Polk was helping Gish out of his warm-up pants and accidentally grabbed his shorts in addition. The embarrassed Gish did make a pair of crucial free throws to help the Commodores win the game by two points.

Vanderbilt basketball was now more successful than the once prominent football program. Since the 1955 Gator Bowl, Commodore football was declining with more and more losses. Polk had brought such prominence to basketball that every year his clubs were SEC championship contenders and droves of fans were packing Memorial Gym.

In the summer of 1961, Polk's doctors told him the he needed to give up the stress of coaching. Due to his poor health, the 47-year-old Polk retired as the Commodores' basketball coach and became the personnel director at Vanderbilt Hospital. Skinner took over the head coaching duties.

The Bob Polk era at Vanderbilt was over. He retired from Vanderbilt with a 197-106 record in 13 seasons. When Polk retired, he was easily Vanderbilt's all-time winningest coach. Skinner would retire in 1976 after 16 years of coaching the Commodores to a 276-135 record.

Polk was only out of basketball for 18 months as he health steadily improved. In 1965 he found himself at Trinity College in San Antonio, Texas. In the duo role of head basketball coach and athletics director, Polk became Southland Conference Coach-of-the-Year in 1967. He was also the NCAA National Coach-of-the-Year for the small college division in 1968. In his three years at Trinity, Polk compiled a 69-28 record.

Polk moved to Saint Louis University (1969-74) to become head basketball coach and assistant professor. In 1971, Polk was named the Coach-of-the-Year in the Missouri Valley Conference. His overall record for the Billikens was 72-60.

Rice was his next coaching stop in 1974, but retired from coaching altogether in June 1977 after a three-year record of 17-63. Polk moved to Birmingham in September to become assistant athletics director at the University of Alabama-Birmingham under Gene Bartow. He remained in that position until November 1981 when another heart attack forced his permanent retirement.

Polk died on March 18, 1986 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Murfreesboro, TN at age 71. He was buried in Tell City, Indiana and inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

Source: VUCommodores.com [12]

[edit] VU basketball today

Vanderbilt basketball has endured since 1893, with 25 head coaches. After the 2006-07 season, the program had an overall record of 1,378-995 (58.1 pct.).[13]

The basketball tradition has produced such notable coaches as Bob Polk, Roy Skinner, and C. M. Newton. Players like Pinky Lipscomb, Billy Joe Adcock, Clyde Lee, Perry Wallace (the first black player ever in the SEC), Jan van Breda Kolff, the F-Troop consisting of Jeff Fosnes, Joe Ford and Butch Feher, Jeff Turner, Phil Cox, Will Perdue, Billy McCaffrey, Drew Maddux, Dan Langhi, Matt Freije, Derrick Byars and many more that wore the black and gold with pride.


[edit] Memorial Gymnasium

See also: Memorial Gymnasium

The Commodores play their home games in Memorial Gymnasium. Memorial Gymnasium was built in the early 1950s. It was dedicated as the campus memorial to students and alumni killed in World War II; a plaque commemorating those who died is displayed in the Gym's North lobby.

At the time of the Gym's construction, there was a serious discussion within the Vanderbilt community about whether the school should de-emphasize intercollegiate athletics and refocus on its academic program. As a compromise between those who advocated increased athletics competition and those who argued in favor of de-emphasis, the Gymnasium was built to hold only about 9,000 seats, and it would be readily adaptable to other uses -- significantly, as a possible concert hall.

Consequently, the gymnasium floor was built up above its surroundings, more in the nature of a stage. The areas out of bounds along the sidelines were very wide, in contrast with the small facility which it replaced, where the walls were right along the sidelines and players could scrape their shoulders bringing the ball up the court. This necessitated the placement of the benches at the end of the court, which was not highly unusual at the time.

In addition, each goal was anchored by two far-reaching beams attached to support columns, with extra support coming from cables stretching all the way to the gym's ceiling. In the case of a backboard shatter or beam fracture, replacing these goals would be highly difficult, compared to the usual goal setup at most venues.

Memorial Gym is well-known for its unusual design. The end-of-the-floor bench location is now unique in major college basketball, and SEC coaches who travel to Memorial, along with coaches from other schools who have played at Vanderbilt as a post-season venue, have said that the unusual setup gives Vanderbilt a tremendous home court advantage, since no other facility in which opponents play is arranged in such a way.[14]


[edit] Year-by-Year Season Records

Season Head Coach Overall Record Conf. Record Postseason
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1900-01 W.D. Weatherford 2-2 - -
1901-02 W.D. Weatherford 5-2 - -
1902-03 Grinnell Jones 6-0 - -
1903-04 J. Hamilton 6-1 - -
1904-05 No team - - -
1905-06 No scores recorded - - -
1906-07 J.N. (Stein) Stone 6-1 - -
1907-08 W.L. Throop 6-10 - -
1908-09 E.J. Hamilton 11-4 - -
1909-10 R.B McGehee 10-3 - -
1910-11 Carl (Zeke) Martin 8-2 - -
1911-12 Carl (Zeke) Martin 9-9 - -
1912-13 Oscar G. Nelson 3-4 - -
1913-14 G.T. Denton 6-3 - -
1914-15 G.T. Denton 6-6 - -
1915-16 G.T. Denton 11-3 - -
1916-17 G.T. Denton 3-8 - -
1917-18 Ralph Palmer 6-3 - -
1918-19 Ralph Palmer 8-2 - -
1919-20 G.T. Denton 14-4 - -
1920-21 G.T. Denton 8-13 - -
1921-22 Wallace Wade 8-8 - -
Southern Conference
1922-23 Wallace Wade 16-8 2-0 -
1923-24 Josh Cody 7-15 1-3 -
1924-25 Josh Cody 12-13 4-3 -
1925-26 Josh Cody 8-18 2-7 -
1926-27 Josh Cody 20-4 7-1 Southern Conference Tournament Champions
1927-28 Johnny (Red) Floyd 5-7 2-5 -
1928-29 Johnny (Red) Floyd 4-12 2-5 -
1929-30 Garland Morrow 6-16 1-9 -
1930-31 Garland Morrow 16-8 7-7 -
1931-32 Josh Cody 8-11 5-7 -
Southeastern Conference
1932-33 Josh Cody 14-8 11-5 (3rd) -
1933-34 Josh Cody 11-6 8-5 (5th) -
1934-35 Josh Cody 9-11 9-6 (4th) -
1935-36 Josh Cody 9-14 9-4 (2nd) -
1936-37 Jim Buford 6-10 3-7 (11th) -
1937-38 Jim Buford 9-12 4-8 (10th) -
1938-39 Jim Buford 14-7 7-5 (6th) -
1939-40 Jim Buford 10-12 5-7 (10th) -
1940-41 Jim Buford 8-9 3-9 (11th) -
1941-42 Norm Cooper 7-9 3-8 (t-9th) -
1942-43 Norm Cooper 10-8 9-7 (6th) -
1943-44 Smokey Harper 12-3 No formal SEC schedule -
1944-45 Gus Morrow 6-6 No formal SEC schedule -
1945-46 Gus Morrow 3-10 2-5 (9th) -
1946-47 Norm Cooper 7-8 4-7 (8th) -
1947-48 Bob Polk 8-14 4-11 (12th) -
1948-49 Bob Polk 14-8 9-5 (4th) -
1949-50 Bob Polk 17-8 11-3 (2nd) -
1950-51 Bob Polk 19-8 10-4 (t-2nd) -
1951-52 Bob Polk 18-9 9-5 (t-2nd) SEC Tournament Champions
1952-53 Bob Polk 10-9 5-8 (t-7th) -
1953-54 Bob Polk 12-10 5-9 (t-8th) -
1954-55 Bob Polk 16-6 9-5 (t-3rd) -
1955-56 Bob Polk 19-4 11-3 (3rd) -
1956-57 Bob Polk 17-5 10-4 (2nd) -
1957-58 Bob Polk 14-11 7-7 (7th) -
1958-59 Roy Skinner (acting) 14-10 8-6 (t-5th) -
1959-60 Bob Polk 14-9 7-7 (t-6th) -
1960-61 Bob Polk 19-5 10-4 (t-2nd) -
1961-62 Roy Skinner 12-12 6-8 (t-6th) -
1962-63 Roy Skinner 16-7 9-5 (4th) -
1963-64 Roy Skinner 19-6 8-6 (t-4th) -
1964-65 Roy Skinner 24-4 15-1 (1st) NCAA Elite Eight
1965-66 Roy Skinner 22-4 13-3 (2nd) -
1966-67 Roy Skinner 21-5 14-4 (t-2nd) -
1967-68 Roy Skinner 20-6 12-6 (3rd) -
1968-69 Roy Skinner 15-11 9-9 (t-5th) -
1969-70 Roy Skinner 12-14 8-10 (6th) -
1970-71 Roy Skinner 13-13 9-9 (t-4th) -
1971-72 Roy Skinner 16-10 10-8 (4th) -
1972-73 Roy Skinner 20-6 13-5 (t-2nd) -
1973-74 Roy Skinner 23-5 15-3 (t-1st) NCAA Sweet 16
1974-75 Roy Skinner 15-11 10-8 (5th) -
1975-76 Roy Skinner 16-11 12-6 (3rd) -
1976-77 Wayne Dobbs 10-16 6-12 (t-6th) -
1977-78 Wayne Dobbs 10-17 6-12 (8th) -
1978-79 Wayne Dobbs 18-9 11-7 (t-3rd) -
1979-80 Richard Schmidt 13-13 7-11 (t-6th) -
1980-81 Richard Schmidt 15-14 7-11 (7th) -
1981-82 C. M. Newton 15-13 7-11 (t-7th) -
1982-83 C. M. Newton 19-14 9-9 (t-4th) NIT Second Round
1983-84 C. M. Newton 14-15 8-10 (t-7th) -
1984-85 C. M. Newton 11-17 4-14 (10th) -
1985-86 C. M. Newton 13-15 7-11 (7th) -
1986-87 C. M. Newton 18-16 7-11 (t-8th) NIT Quarterfinals
1987-88 C. M. Newton 20-11 10-8 (t-4th) NCAA Sweet 16
1988-89 C. M. Newton 19-14 12-6 (t-2nd) NCAA First Round
1989-90 Eddie Fogler 21-14 7-11 (t-7th) NIT Champions
1990-91 Eddie Fogler 17-13 11-7 (4th) NCAA First Round
Southeastern Conference (East Division)
1991-92 Eddie Fogler 15-15 6-10 (5th) NIT First Round
1992-93 Eddie Fogler 28-6 14-2 (1st) NCAA Sweet 16
1993-94 Jan van Breda Kolff 20-12 9-7 (3rd) NIT Runners-up
1994-95 Jan van Breda Kolff 13-15 6-10 (4th) -
1995-96 Jan van Breda Kolff 18-14 7-9 (4th) NIT Second Round
1996-97 Jan van Breda Kolff 19-12 9-7 (4th) NCAA First Round
1997-98 Jan van Breda Kolff 20-13 7-9 (t-4th) NIT Quarterfinals
1998-99 Jan van Breda Kolff 14-15 5-11 (5th) -
1999-2000 Kevin Stallings 19-11 8-8 (4th) NIT First Round
2000-01 Kevin Stallings 15-15 4-12 (6th) -
2001-02 Kevin Stallings 17-15 6-10 (t-5th) NIT Second Round
2002-03 Kevin Stallings 11-18 3-13 (6th) -
2003-04 Kevin Stallings 23-10 8-8 (t-3rd) NCAA Sweet 16
2004-05 Kevin Stallings 20-14 8-8 (3rd) NIT Second Round
2005-06 Kevin Stallings 17-13 7-9 (4th) NIT First Round
2006-07 Kevin Stallings 22-12 10-6 (2nd) NCAA Sweet 16
TOTAL OVERALL RECORD: 1,378-995 (.581)

Note: Fansonly.com reports Vanderbilt's overall record in 1937-38 as 9-12, while SECSports.com reports it as 10-11.

Source: Soconsports.com[15]

Source: SECSports.com[16]

Source: Fansonly.com[17]

[edit] Retired Numbers

Only two male Commodores have had their jerseys retired by the university:

  • Clyde Lee- #43- Probably the greatest player in Commodore History. He averaged the most points per game in school history and the balconies on the south are commonly referred to as the "balconies that Clyde built."

[edit] Consecutive Games with a 3 Point Field Goal

Vanderbilt is one of only three teams to make a 3 point field goal in every game since the rule was implemented in the 1986-87 season. The other two teams to do so are Princeton and UNLV.

At Vanderbilt home games, after the first 3 pointer of the game is made, the PA announcer says "And the streak continues" and the cheerleaders throw t-shirts commemorating the streak into the crowd.

[edit] All-Americans

  • Billy McCaffrey- 1993 & 1994
  • Will Perdue- 1988
  • Tom Hagan- 1969
  • Clyde Lee- 1966
  • Billy Joe Adcock- 1950

Source: VUCommodores.com[18]

[edit] SEC Players of the Year

Source: VUCommodores.com[19]

[edit] Olympians

[edit] Coaching awards

  • Eddie Fogler- 1993 National Coach of the Year by AP, UPI, CBS, USBWA, Scripps-Howard, Sports lllustrated, Sporting News, Basketball Weekly[20]
  • Kevin Stallings- SEC Coach of the Year 2007 [21]
  • C. M. Newton- SEC Coach of the Year, 1988 & 1989
  • Wayne Dobbs- SEC Coach of the Year, 1979
  • Roy Skinner- SEC Coach of the Year, 1965, 1967, 1974 & 1976

[edit] All Time Leaders

[edit] Points

 

Player

Career Points

1

Matt Freije (2000-04)

1,891

2

Phil Cox (1981-85)

1,724

3

Ronnie McMahan (1991-95)

1,719

4

Mike Rhodes (1977-81)

1,699

5

Clyde Lee (1963-66)

1,691

[edit] Rebounds

 

Player

Career Rebounds

1

Clyde Lee (1963-66)

1,223

2

Perry Wallace (1968-70)

894

3

Bobby Thym (1954-57)

872

4

Bob "Snake" Grace (1963-65)

837

5

Charley Harrison (1953-56)

802

[edit] Assists

 

Player

Career Assists

1

Atiba Prater (1996-00)

517

2

Frank Seckar (1993-96)

455

3

Kevin Anglin (1990-93)

435

4

Jan Van Breda Kolff (1972-74)

430

5

Derrick Wilcox (1987-90)

423

[edit] Steals

 

Player

Career Steals

1

Drew Maddux (1994-98)

214

2

Frank Seckar (1993-96)

214

3

Atiba Prater (1996-00)

212

4

James Strong (1996-00)

209

5

Kevin Anglin (1990-93)

192

[edit] Blocks

 

Player

Career Blocks

1

Will Perdue (1984, 86-88)

157

2

Chris Woods (1992-95)

108

3

Dan Hall (1990, 92-94)

70

4

Austin Bates (1994-98)

61

5

Malik Evans (1992, 94-96)

60

Source: VUCommodores.com [22]

  • Some of this info may not be correct because VU's website only lists records through the 2002-03 season.


[edit] References

  1. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  2. ^ Vanderbilt Comet yearbook, 1894 edition.
  3. ^ Vanderbilt Comet yearbook, 1894-99 editions
  4. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  5. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  6. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  7. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  8. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html, from The Vanderbilt Hustler, March 1900, Nashville, Tenn.
  9. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  10. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  11. ^ Commodore History Corner, http://vucommodores.cstv.com/genrel/122006aaa.html
  12. ^ Traughber, Bill. Bob Polk: Vandy Coaching Legend. Retrieved on 2007-01-04.
  13. ^ NCAA Men's Basketball Statistics, http://www.ncaa.org/stats/m_basketball/all_time_wins/2006_all_time_wins.pdf
  14. ^ Memorial Gym.
  15. ^ Southern Conference Records.
  16. ^ SEC Annual Standings.
  17. ^ Vanderbilt Year-by-Year Results.
  18. ^ VU All Americans.
  19. ^ VU All Americans.
  20. ^ VU Coaching Awards.
  21. ^ www.secsports.com
  22. ^ Records.

[edit] See Also

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