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.
Vanderbilt Commodores head coach Mark Byington issued a bold, six-word warning to the rest of the league as the school in Nashville vies for a March Madness berth.