In early November, had you asked any die-hard Vanderbilt basketball fan where the Commodores would be in mid-December, you’d have heard that the boys were going to turn quite a few heads, silence the critics, and make a lot of noise.

But Vanderbilt is 6-3, after posting respectable losses to Cincinnati and Illinois on the road and then a rather unfortunate loss to Western Kentucky.

And so the Dores remains off the radar, rank-hovering in the 30s, about where non-Vanderbilt fans expected. And yet, Commodore fans aren’t defeated. Deflated? Discouraged? Perhaps. You heard the occasional “Final Four” tossed around in some camps a month ago; you don’t hear that anymore.

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