National Basketball Association
Vanderbilt 86, Mississippi 77
When: 9:00 PM ET, Saturday, March 7, 2015
Where: C.M. 'Tad' Smith Coliseum, Oxford, Mississippi
Officials:
# Kipp Kissinger, # Terry Moore, # Glenn Tuitt
Attendance:
8862
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Vanderbilt 86, Ole Miss 77: Riley LaChance scored 19 points - including five 3-pointers - and handed out all of his eight assists in the first half as the visiting Commodores won their fifth straight game.
Fellow freshman Wade Baldwin IV tallied 15 points, eight rebounds and four assists for Vanderbilt (19-12, 9-9 SEC), which was locked into the No. 7 seed in next week’s conference tournament and faces Tennessee in a second-round contest Thursday. James Siakam contributed 14 points and nine boards while Matthew Fisher-Davis had 14 points and five assists as the Commodores went 13-of-23 beyond the arc and recorded an assist on 25 of their 30 field goals.
M.J. Rhett finished with a season-high 18 points in his final home game for Ole Miss (20-11, 11-7), which dropped from a potential No. 3 to a No. 6 seed and play Thursday against the winner of a first-round game between South Carolina and Missouri. Stefan Moody added 14 points, seven rebounds and four steals while Jarvis Summers scored 16 points and Sebastian Saiz 12 for the Rebels.
Vanderbilt missed six of its first seven field-goal attempts before LaChance and Kornet combined for three of the Commodores’ nine first-half 3-pointers to fuel an 11-0 run. Rhett scored the last two of his 12 points before the break on a layup to make it 25-20 with just under nine minutes left, but five more triples by Vanderbilt over the remainder of the half – including a 30-foot runner by Baldwin at the buzzer – allowed the Commodores to coast into intermission with a 46-33 advantage.
Ole Miss opened the second half by connecting on five of its first six shots, but barely dented Vanderbilt’s lead before LaChance drilled two more 3-pointers during a 12-3 spurt that extended the margin to 69-52. Although the Rebels never allowed the deficit to grow any larger, they were unable to get any closer than the final margin thereafter.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Vanderbilt tied a season high with its 13 3-pointers and is 55-of-108 beyond the arc during its winning streak. … Moody finished 3-of-15 from the field and is shooting 16-of-58 over his last four contests. … Commodores 7-footer Luke Cornet, who went 2-for-4 from long-distance and scored 10 points, has connected on 14 of his last 21 3-point attempts.
Top Game Performances
| Vanderbilt |
|
Mississippi |
|
Riley LaChance 19 |
Scoring |
M.J. Rhett 18 |
|
Riley LaChance 8 |
Assists |
Stefan Moody 4 |
|
James Siakam 9 |
Rebounds |
Stefan Moody 7 |
|
Wade Baldwin IV 5 |
Free Throws Made |
Stefan Moody 7 |
|
Matthew Fisher-Davis 2 |
Steals |
Stefan Moody 4 |
|
Matthew Fisher-Davis 2 |
Blocks |
Sebastian Saiz 2 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
| Vanderbilt
|
86 |
54.5 |
13-23 |
13-19 |
25 |
31 |
4 |
3 |
12 |
| Mississippi
|
77 |
42.4 |
6-21 |
21-27 |
11 |
29 |
5 |
7 |
6 |
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