Four Factors
| Four Factors | Vanderbilt | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| Four Factors | Vanderbilt | South Carolina |
| e f G% | 60.17% | 58.06% |
| OR% | 35.29% | 25.71% |
| FOR% | 20.00% | 21.33% |
| FT Rate | 45.76% | 22.58% |
Well, that was fun, wasn’t it?
Vanderbilt achieved his first SEC win of the season and was never really in doubt, except for Vanderbilt fans, who have seen the reverse of this story happen many times. South Carolina hit a top three pair to take the lead 6-3, so Vanderbilt went on a 20-2 run to build a 23-8 lead. The defeat was not quite for now: Jerry Stackhouse took Dylan Disu and Scotty Pippen Jr. out of the game, and the Gamecocks would return to cut the lead to 33-29. But Vanderbilt would increase the lead to 52-37 in the break, and the final 12-point margin was actually the closer South Carolina was in the second half. This only happened after Jerry Stackhouse, sitting on a 93-70 lead in the media’s final timeout, decided that Pippen and Disu’s nights were over, and South Carolina narrowed the gap against a schedule that included Akeem Odusipe a little used and Max walk-ons Adelman and Isaiah Rice.
In other words, this It could have been much worse than it was. I don’t treat more / less like gospel, but in this specific game, it is notable that Vanderbilt was 27 points better than South Carolina with Maxwell Evans on the floor, 26 with Scotty Pippen Jr. and 26 with Dylan Disu (all three, is of course, they were on the floor together a little bit.)
Vanderbilt won all Four Factors and when you do, you will win most of the time. South Carolina committed 16 spins and I admit that much of that was the Gamecocks’ carelessness and nothing that Vanderbilt was doing defensively, but it made a big difference considering that Carolina still kicked the ball reasonably well, her 58% effective field the percentage of goals it’s not far from what an average SEC team did against Vanderbilt’s defense.
Anyway, this was a necessary victory to regain the team’s confidence, and now Vanderbilt has a series of games that can be won ahead. The trips to Texas A&M and Georgia are still road games, but these are probably the two worst non-Vanderbilt teams in the conference. A home game against Auburn is suddenly complicated with the emergence of Sharife Cooper, but this is followed by a road game in Mississippi and a home game against Kentucky, two teams that Vanderbilt narrowly missed last month. It is not absurd to think that Vanderbilt could obtain two or three victories in this section.
Individual Statistics
| Player | MIN | FG | FGA | 3FG | 3FGA | FT | FTA | BALL | DRB | REB | PTS | Federal Police | AST | FOR | BLK | STL | AdjGS | GS / Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | MIN | FG | FGA | 3FG | 3FGA | FT | FTA | BALL | DRB | REB | PTS | Federal Police | AST | FOR | BLK | STL | AdjGS | GS / Min |
| Scotty Pippen Jr. | 28 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | two | 23 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | two | 28.65 | 1.02 |
| Maxwell Evans | 34 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 1 | two | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25.41 | 0.75 |
| Dylan Disu | 27 | 5 | 10 | two | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 17 | two | 3 | 3 | two | 5 | 22.39 | 0.83 |
| Jordan Wright | 24 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.41 | 0.43 |
| DJ Harvey | 21 | two | 4 | two | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.15 | 0.25 |
| Myles Stute | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | two | two | two | 1 | 3 | two | 3 | two | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.01 | 0.13 |
| Issac McBride | 11 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.34 | 0.12 |
| Ejike Obinna | 16 | two | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | two | two | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.34 | 0.02 |
| Isaiah rice | two | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Max Adelman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Akeem Odusipe | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | two | 0 | two | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | -0.11 | -0.04 |
| Trey Thomas | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | two | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -2.01 | -0.34 |
| Clevon Brown | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | two | 1 | two | 0 | 0 | -2.57 | -0.23 |
- Yes, getting a 29-point Maxwell Evans exit alongside Pippen and Disu’s usual performances is a big deal, huh?
- In fact, this may have been better than Scotty’s 32-point performance in Florida the other night. In that case, Scotty managed 23 points, but he only needed 10 field goal attempts for that – and he also gave seven assists.
- Another solid game by Jordan Wright, which is a good fourth or fifth option on the ground. Finding some more good actors would be a big deal this time, because …
- … well, apart from DJ Harvey and Myles Stute, nobody else was good on Saturday night. There was a reason why South Carolina was able to take a run when Pippen and Disu hit the bench in the first half, and in the long run, relying on Maxwell Evans to explode by 29 points is simply not a viable solution for anything. . Vanderbilt needs Pippen and Disu to stay on the floor for more than 35 minutes a night, or they need someone else to climb.
What is the next
Vanderbilt travels to Texas A&M on Wednesday night. Texas A&M is currently 2-6 in the SEC, with the two wins being for a total of three points – and the six losses for a total of 100 points. The Aggies are not good and this is a game that can be won. (They achieved a victory at Kansas State on Saturday; Kansas State, however, is the worse energy conference team in the country according to KenPom, and they managed to keep it closer to A&M than Division II Fort Hays State, which is a real school and not one I just created.)