The Arkansas Razorbacks didn't need to become the primary Southeastern Conference team to lose to financier, and that they turned in a very dominating performance that left the Commodores coach apologizing.

Daniel Gafford scored twenty points, and Arkansas routed financier 84-48 Wed night to seal the Commodores' worst season ever.

"We weren't nervous," Gafford aforementioned. "We created a mentality to wherever we have a tendency to weren't visiting be the primary loss or the first win, thus we have a tendency to came in and did what we had to try and do to forestall that."

The Commodores (9-21, 0-17 Southeastern Conference) currently have the foremost losses at school history, and that they committed their home schedule at 8-10 for the primary losing record in sixty seven seasons at Memorial gymnasium. A loss Sabbatum night to No. ten LSU would build financier the primary SEC team to travel unsuccessful united play since Georgia technical school went 0-14 in 1953-54.

"It hurts in fact," financier freshman Aaron Nesmith aforementioned. "Everybody on the team's pain, everyone on the staff's pain."

Arkansas (16-14, 7-10) currently has won 2 straight once snapping its own six-game skid. The Razorbacks even have won four straight against financier, sweeping the season series once taking the primary game between these groups 69-66 in Arkansas.

Mason Jones adscititious sixteen points for the Razorbacks. Isaiah Joe had twelve, and Desi Sills eleven.

This game was solely that shut at break with Arkansas up 29-25. The Razorbacks outscored financier 23-4 over the primary eleven minutes of the half, taking advantage of the Commodores' worst shooting performance this season. They went seventeen minutes, thirty five seconds between field goals and shot a season-low twenty nine.6 percent.

"Our defense was specific, and once our defense was going, we have a tendency to clearly began to execute objectionably and so we created some shots," Arkansas coach microphone Anderson aforementioned.

Nesmith junction rectifier Vandy with eleven points because the Commodores additionally suffered through their widest margin of defeat this season. That's why coach Bryce thespian started off apologizing to each financier fan and people within Memorial for the result.

"I apologize for our ball-handling, our shooting and our passing," thespian aforementioned. "The fundamentals of basketball. Those are 3 things we've got to induce higher at."

Vanderbilt appeared able to finish their painful skid as they opened the sport with a 12-2 run and junction rectifier 15-5 on a 3-pointer by Maxwell Evans with 13:17 left. Then the Commodores didn't hit another field goal the remainder of the primary [*fr1], missing their last sixteen shots. Their 1st created field goal within the half was a goaltending invoke a jumper by Simisola Shittu with 15:42 to travel before Aaron Nesmith finally scored on a lay-up with 12:49 left.

Arkansas cask off its own poor shooting once missing 5 of its 1st six. After that, it absolutely was a reasonably simple night for the Razorbacks as they took the lead with their 1st 23-4 run of the sport.

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Arkansas: Joe created four 3s to grant him 104 this season and therefore the faculty record for one season, passing Scotty Thurman UN agency created 102 in 1995. ... The Razorbacks finished the sport touch their last eleven shots and finished at fifty two.6 % (30 of 57).

Vanderbilt: a minimum of the Commodores have managed to stay each of} solely 3 colleges to knock down a three in every game since the 3-point line was adscititious within the 1986-87 season. Senior Joe Toye, obtaining the beginning, hit a three for the game's gap bucket to increase the streak to one,061 consecutive games with a created three.

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The Commodores had twenty three turnovers, and Arkansas scored thirty three points off those mistakes. The Razorbacks had only one of their eleven turnovers once break. They additionally outshot financier outside the arc, going eleven of eighteen (61.1 percent). Anderson referred to as the points off turnovers a giant key.

"We chart deflections, we had twenty one at break in order that tells me we were active and that we terminated up with forty for the sport," Anderson aforementioned. "But we have a tendency to not solely touched it, we have a tendency to came up with them, thus that's Brobdingnagian."

UP NEXT

Arkansas: Hosts Alabama on Sabbatum.

Vanderbilt: Visiting No. ten LSU on Sabbatum night.