Will Clinard picked up his first win at Vanderbilt and starters Andrew Giobbi and Joe Loftus went deep in a 9-1 Commodore victory over UT-Martin.
The First Annual AoG Bubble Team Draft: Final Round
by Train Island on Mar 10, 2010 6:00 PM EST
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March Madness is upon us. With only a week to go until we find out the NCAA Tournament field, the staff here at Anchor of Gold has taken it upon ourselves to push our college basketball knowledge into an ultimate competition to see who understands the NCAA Selection Committee the best. Today marks the dawning of a new era; one that will crown the AoG king of bracketology. Behold - the first ever Bubble Team Draft.
The rules are simple. Five authors will pick their teams. Every team that lies outside the AP Top 25 as of March 1, 2010 is eligible for selection - all Top 25 teams are considered locks. Authors pick their teams based on how strongly they feel each team will make the field of 65. The draft is run like a standard fantasy draft; each participant can select one team per pick, and picks will run in a serpentine fashion - i.e. whoever picks last in the first round picks first in the second round and vice versa. Once the NCAA Tournament field is final, scoring will be as follows:
Correct pick: 5 points
Incorrect pick: -2 points
Seed 1-6: 1 bonus point
Seed 7-9: 2 bonus points
Seed 10-11: 4 bonus points
Seed 12+: 7 bonus points
The participant with the highest score earns eternal college basketball bragging rights and a gift basket filled with a variety of essential Krebstar products. The author with the lowest score - from here on to be referred to as the "loser" will have his AoG salary suspended until he can prove his worthiness in meaningless fantasy games. The system rewards risky picks, but also punishes dumb ones (i.e. my eventual homer pick of the University of Rhode Island), so participants are warned to choose wisely. The draft as currently planned will cover six rounds - 30 teams in all. The draft order?
| GM | Round 1 | Round 3 | Round 5 |
| Vandy10 | Marquette | Wake Forest | Memphis |
| KingJamesIV | Texas | Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech |
| Vandy Dan | Louisville | Utah State | San Diego St. |
| Train Island | Richmond | California | Rhode Island |
| bloggywo | Mississippi State | Ole Miss | |
| (lame) | |||
| Round 2 | Round 4 | Round 6 | |
| bloggywo | Florida | Notre Dame | Illinois |
| Train Island | Oklahoma State | Missouri | Washington |
| Vandy Dan | Old Dominion | Florida State | On the clock! |
| KingJamesIV | Saint Mary's | Alabama-Birmingham | |
| Vandy10 | Clemson | Nevada-Las Vegas |
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Vanderbilt (E2)
Last week the Commodores popped up on my list of most fortunate teams, as Kevin Stallings' group went 12-4 while playing at a per-possession level that would more often yield a 10-6 record. That's all well and good, but if anything Vandy's luck has actually improved this week. The tournament's being played in their front yard and the brackets have given the 'Dores an excellent opportunity to make it all the way to the title game. Vanderbilt's most formidable competition, Kentucky and Tennessee, is safely sequestered on the other side of the bracket. So we'll get to see what happens when tournament kismet hits the SEC's best offense, one that scored 1.10 points per trip in-conference. Watch how many free throws A.J. Ogilvy and Jeffery Taylor shoot. This group gets to the line like a Big 12 team.
Video - Jeff Taylor dunks all over St. Mary's. #2 is particularly satisfying.
Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith said he would help the family of slain high school football star Rajaan Bennett with their living expenses for the next six months.
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Vanderbilt is Getting PAID
"For one thing, taking home 100 percent of their bowl payout hasn't actually been that lucrative lately for the Irish: Over the past three postseasons, Notre Dame has earned a grand total of $750,000 (from a single Hawaii Bowl appearance in 2008). By comparison, even lowly Vanderbilt, as a member of the SEC -- which routinely lands two teams in the megabuck BCS bowls -- has been entitled to a share of nearly $150 million over that same period."
- From Yahoo!'s Dr. Saturday blog.
Thanks to the awesomely named Gumbercules for the tip. Gumbercules? I love that guy!
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Train Island
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Seth Davis's 2010 All-Glue Team
No Vanderbilt players on the list, but I'd like to nominate our own: Andre Walker. Not a superstar, but does everything well and keeps his team in the game. Any other suggestions? Let us know in the comments!
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Ginyard said that was apparent from the moment it walked onto a court together.
"That was terrible," he said of the Vanderbilt scrimmage. "That was like the whole season right there. That's exactly the way this whole year's gone down."
Vanderbilt won the scrimmage by more than 30 points, and Ginyard said the Tar Heels didn't seem ready to play, didn't even seem all that concerned.
"At the time, you think there's no way we're not even ready to play and got beat by Vanderbilt by 30 points," he said. "It was the very first time we were all playing. It was like, how are we not super-pumped to be playing? As soon as we got back we had a meeting in the locker room. We were like, 'This isn't how it's supposed to go down. We've got to play better than this. We've got to play more together than this, blah, blah, blah.' But again, even more indicative of the year, nothing really changed after that."
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(updated 3.8.2010 at 2:55 AM EST)
| East | Conf | Overall | ||
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| W | L | W | L | |
Kentucky Wildcats
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14 | 2 | 29 | 2 |
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Vanderbilt Commodores
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12 | 4 | 23 | 7 |
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Tennessee Volunteers
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11 | 5 | 23 | 7 |
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Florida Gators
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9 | 7 | 20 | 11 |
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South Carolina Gamecocks
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6 | 10 | 15 | 15 |
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Georgia Bulldogs
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5 | 11 | 13 | 16 |
| West | Conf | Overall | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | L | W | L | |
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Mississippi Rebels
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9 | 7 | 21 | 9 |
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Mississippi St. Bulldogs
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9 | 7 | 21 | 10 |
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Arkansas Razorbacks
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7 | 9 | 14 | 17 |
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Alabama Crimson Tide
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6 | 10 | 16 | 14 |
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Auburn Tigers
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6 | 10 | 15 | 16 |
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LSU Tigers
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2 | 14 | 11 | 19 |
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