re: Roll call for basketball vs Vandy in the PMAC tonight!!!

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And they gave a Bama team that's better than Memphis all they wanted Saturday, lost by just 3.

Let's see if we've really made a paradigm shift in rebounding because that will be key to us building on that A&M game and beyond. For me it really is that simple. But if we slip back to what we were before Re: rebounding, Vandy absolutely can beat us.

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Alabama shot it notably better than Vanderbilt. They just had 16 turnovers to allow Vandy 10 or more FGA to hang around.

A few things really killed LSU in the non-conf. schedule

1. Turnovers
2. Poor defensive rebounding
3. Allowing far too many 3 pointers

Those numbers have significantly improved over the last 3 games. However, A&M is the only good team they played in that stretch.

Cook gives them stability at the PG spot. Hopefully that continues to lead to less TOs since there is less of a need to have Williams/Hannibal handle it and make poor decisions or Reed lazily turn the ball over.

Dean has been playing more minutes and has been a factor both rebounding and at least being a presence at the rim.

We'll see tonight if the 3 point defense had been a product of improvement or just bad offense because Vandy won't be too shy about launching them.