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I don't really have much to say about the game. The Four Factors chart speaks for itself: an evenly-matched game against a team Vanderbilt should not have been evenly matched with. Perhaps this game is better summed up in GIF form:
Yeah, that about sums it up. Vanderbilt held a 61-44 lead with 13:32 to go. Mississippi State held a lead for a grand total of 14 seconds. If you're thinking to yourself "this sounds like a game that Vanderbilt probably won" then obviously you don't realize that Mississippi State, after leading 2-0 for 14 seconds early in the first half, did get the lead back eventually when there were zero seconds left on the clock. Matthew Fisher-Davis scored 17 points in the first half and then attempted two shots after halftime, because why continue doing what was obviously working well? And the Commodores weren't helping themselves by going 5-of-11 from the foul line in the second half.
Individual Stats
| Player | MIN | FG | FGA | 3FG | 3FGA | FT | FTA | ORB | DRB | REB | PF | PTS | AST | TO | BLK | STL | AdjGS | GS/Min |
| Matthew Fisher-Davis | 34 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.7 | 0.67 |
| Damian Jones | 34 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16.5 | 0.49 |
| Jeff Roberson | 39 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12.9 | 0.33 |
| Wade Baldwin IV | 38 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11.0 | 0.29 |
| Luke Kornet | 18 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5.8 | 0.32 |
| Josh Henderson | 9 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.5 | 0.28 |
| Nolan Cressler | 16 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.12 |
| Riley LaChance | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.05 |
- I realize that Ben Howland obviously made halftime adjustments. But were we even trying to get Matthew Fisher-Davis shots in the second half?
- Actually, no, that question is too obvious. Were we even running an offense in the last 12 minutes of the game?
- When Josh Henderson attempts as many shots from the floor as Jeff Roberson and Luke Kornet, something's not right.
- Are Joe Toye, Samir Sehic, and Camron Justice worse than the three bench guys that Stallings regularly goes to?
- It's telling that on Vanderbilt's last offensive possession, Ben Howland told his guys to wait until Riley LaChance got the ball to foul him.
Seriously, the less said about this game, the better. Vanderbilt welcomes Georgia to Memorial Gym, and calling it a "must-win" game at this point is redundant because that's going to describe basically all of them from here on out.