The top seed in the Midwest Region is Notre Dame, which has lost only two games all season. Even so, the Midwest does not appear to be the most difficult of the four regions. There are no bad teams left. The Commodores have been fine-tuning over these past two weeks, during which neither they nor any other teams have played a basketball game. Foster maintains that Vanderbilt has improved since the SEC Tournament.
Young teams continue to improve.
This is a hungry basketball team. One area where the Commodores could use improvement is their penchant for slow starts. They fell behind double digits in the first half to both Tennessee and Georgia in Memphis before coming back. You can't just play well in the second half. You have to play the whole game and work hard.