Basketball

After leading James Madison to its most successful four-season stretch in over 30 years, highlighted by a victory in the NCAA Tournament last weekend, Mark Byington was named men’s basketball head coach at Vanderbilt by Vice Chancellor for Athletics and University Affairs and Athletic Director Candice Storey Lee. Read More

The Vanderbilt women’s basketball team returns to March Madness after a 10-year hiatus, as the Commodores earned an at-large bid into the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Vanderbilt will be the No. 12 seed in Regional 3 in Portland, and will take on Columbia in a First Four contest on March 20 at the Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia. Read More

The Commodores will play nine home games and nine road games as part of the SEC slate, all leading up to the SEC Tournament. Vanderbilt opens the 2024 conference schedule with Alabama on Jan. 6 at home at Memorial Gymnasium. Discounted season tickets are available for faculty, staff and students. Read More

As part of the ongoing Vandy United campaign, Vanderbilt University today unveiled detailed plans for the men’s and women’s basketball operations center and practice facility. Read More

To shoot a basketball with precision requires countless hours of practice, usually under the watchful eye of a coach providing guidance on the right mechanics of each shot. Now, thanks to new research from Vanderbilt University, players may soon be able to use artificial intelligence technology to work on those same principles on their own.  Read More

In the spirit of the holiday season, Vanderbilt Athletics is offering free basketball tickets as a thank you to all Vanderbilt University faculty, staff and postdocs for their hard work within the campus community. Read More

The 1965, 1974 and 1993 Southeastern Conference regular season championship teams will be honored during three Commodore men’s basketball games this season, with the 1974 team to be recognized first this Saturday during Vanderbilt’s game with Texas A&M at Memorial Gym. Read More

Vanderbilt guard Darius Garland was selected fifth overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA draft Thursday night, becoming the eighth first-round selection and the second-highest pick in Commodore basketball history. Read More

For two hours on Monday, Nov. 26—Cyber Monday—Vanderbilt fans can purchase tickets for select men's and women's home SEC games at a discounted rate. Read More

Grab your friends and register a team to compete this summer in the Vanderbilt Recreation & Wellness Center's intramural softball and basketball leagues. Read More

The Horvitz YouthAbility program, a Cleveland organization that serves disabled and at-risk youth, has made a donation to the Perry E. Wallace Basketball Scholarship after its members read Wallace's biography and visited Nashville to walk in his footsteps. Read More

Vanderbilt Campus Dining was named the winner of the 2018 Vanderbilt Basketball Sustainability Competition. The group celebrated its title of “Greenest Group on Campus” at the game against Missouri Feb. 27. Read More

Vanderbilt alumnus and civil rights trailblazer Perry Wallace has been honored with a new scholarship that will provide support for student-athletes at the university. Read More

On the latest episode of "The Zeppos Report," Vanderbilt writer-in-residence Andrew Maraniss tells Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos about his personal journey to Vanderbilt and how it led him to write Perry Wallace's biography. Read More

Two former Vanderbilt basketball players who helped break the color barrier in the Southeastern Conference 50 years ago have been named recipients of the Michael L. Slive Distinguished Service Award, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced Thursday. Read More

Andrew Maraniss, who wrote Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South, is working with Vanderbilt students from a unique position this academic year. He is spending part of his time as a writer-in-residence at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons, where he is… Read More

Vanderbilt Assistant Women's Basketball Coach Carolyn Peck, BA'88—who in 1999 became the first African American head coach (at Purdue) to win the NCAA women's basketball title—was an influence on South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley, who last weekend became the second African American coach to win the title. Vanderbilt Athletics' Zac Ellis talked with Peck about that relationship. Read More

A reunion 50 years in the making made a significant impact on first-year students at the 10th annual Lawson Lecture Sept. 27, when Vanderbilt alumni Perry Wallace and Godfrey Dillard shared their stories of being young African American basketball recruits and students on campus in the late-1960s. Read More

Are you ready for some football and the Vanderbilt alma mater with a Nashville twist? Our 2016 public service announcement, featuring more than 100 students and the expertise of the Blair School of Music, will be part of the TV telecast as Vanderbilt hosts South Carolina Sept. 1. Read More

Peabody College alumna Nera White powered the first national women’s basketball dynasty and became the game’s first female superstar—a dominance that led her into the Basketball Hall of Fame as one of the first two women to be enshrined there. She died April 13 in Gallatin, Tennessee, from complications of pneumonia at the age of 80. Read More