Mark Byington can’t even make a coffee run to Starbucks without Vanderbilt fans around Nashville reminding the first-year head coach on his team’s dubious status on the 2025 NCAA Tournament bubble. Turns out everyone and their mother is a bracketologist — including Byington’s own,
This is unlikely to push Vanderbilt out of the NCAA Tournament completely. But the Commodores haven't looked in the last two games like a team that could put a scare into top seeds in March, and the problem becomes magnified if MJ Collins and Grant Huffman, who missed Saturday's game with injury, can't return soon.