Missouri Tigers vs Vanderbilt Commodores Match Player Stats On Feb 03, 2024

Ezra Manjon scored 17 points as Vanderbilt snapped a seven-game losing streak, topping Missouri 68-61 in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday afternoon.

Evan Taylor grabbed 11 rebounds to help the Commodores outrebound the Tigers, 42-31. Missouri was held to 37.3 percent shooting from the floor.

Freshman guard Isaiah West came off the bench to score 12 points on 4-of-5 shooting on 3-pointers, while Tyrin Lawrence scored 14 and added eight rebounds for Vanderbilt (6-15, 1-7 Southeastern Conference). Ven Allen Lubin added 12 and eight rebounds.

The Commodores held Sean East II -- the Tigers' leading scorer at 16 points per game coming in -- to just nine.

Noah Carter (20 points), Tamar Bates (17) and Nick Honor (11) led Missouri in scoring. The Tigers (8-14, 0-9) have now lost nine straight.

Honor took a pass from Carter and buried a 3 with 2:51 left, cutting Vanderbilt's lead to 57-54.

Honor then made two free throws to get the Tigers within a point.

But Taylor hit a turnaround jumper, Bates traveled on the other end, and Lawrence, with the shot clock running down, hit a jumper to extend Vanderbilt's lead to five.

The Commodores trailed by 11 twice in the first half, but took a 38-29 lead with 17:51 to play on a Taylor jumper.

The Tigers looked more prepared at the opening tip, though that dissipated late in the half.

Honor caught Vanderbilt napping when he threw a 50-foot pass to Carter for an alley-oop dunk five seconds into the game. Carter scored nine points in the game's first 1:50 as Missouri led 9-2.

By the first media timeout at 15:08, Missouri led 15-6 with all but a Carter 3 coming in the paint.

East was carried off the floor after he came down awkwardly on a baseline drive with 11:09 left in the first half, allowing Vanderbilt to seize momentum.

The Tigers then hit 1-of-5 from the floor until East returned to hit a jumper at 6:08.

Vanderbilt took its first lead on Lawerence's layup with 4:53 left in the half, part of a 20-9 run that put the Commodores up 32-29 at the break.

--Field Level Media