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
Missouri | Vanderbilt | |
Noah Carter 20 | Scoring | Ezra Manjon 17 |
Sean East II 4 | Assists | Ezra Manjon 4 |
Noah Carter 6 | Rebounds | Evan Taylor 11 |
Noah Carter 4 | Free Throws Made | Ezra Manjon 7 |
Jordan Butler 2 | Steals | Tyrin Lawrence 1 |
Mabor Majak 1 | Blocks | Ven-Allen Lubin 1 |
Team | Points | FG% | 3PM-3PA | FTM-FTA | Assists | Rebounds | Blocks | Steals | Turnovers |
Missouri | 61 | 37.3 | 7-26 | 10-11 | 14 | 29 | 2 | 6 | 7 |
Vanderbilt | 68 | 40.0 | 5-22 | 15-20 | 8 | 38 | 3 | 4 | 9 |