Vanderbilt basketball's season slipped away in March Madness with painful end | Estes
Vanderbilt basketball lost 74-72 to Nebraska in the second round of the Men's NCAA Tournament second round.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Rapid reaction from fifth-seeded Vanderbilt’s 74-72 loss to No. 4 seed Nebraska in a second-round Men's NCAA Tournament game at Paycom Center: A painful end to a wonderful season Badly outnumbered against a hostile crowd, Vanderbilt played hard enough to hang all night with a difficult opponent in a very difficult atmosphere. It just didn’t quite shoot well enough – from the perimeter or the foul line – to win in the end.
Nebraska’s Braden Frager drove for the go-ahead basket with 2. 2 seconds remaining after Chandler Bing missed with the shot clock expiring on the other end. Tyler Tanner’s desperate heave at the buzzer rimmed out.
It sent fourth-seeded Nebraska (28-6) to the Sweet 16 and made a painful finish to a wonderful season for No. 5 seed Vanderbilt (27-9). How it got away When they look back on this one, they’ll remember Tyler Tanner’s 27 points.
They’ll remember the tenacity with which the Commodores rallied to take their first lead of the evening with 8:22 to play and nearly pull this off in the final moments. But they’ll also remember an uncharacteristic 11-for-19 performance for Vanderbilt at the foul line, when that has been a Commdores strength this season. They’ll also remember another slow start.