NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Kevin Stallings, the insist he tries to warn his seventh-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores on Cleveland State.
Commodores had done from the end of the opening and loss, 71-58, Cleveland State on Sunday in a regional game in the legend of classic, taking a win streak nonconference home in 20.
"Parents need to know," Stallings said. "I told them we were getting ready to play a team that is very good. They won the game 27 years ago. You do not fall in truck turnips and a game-winning 27. And maybe, maybe we really are ready and has just been defeated by a much better team than we are.
Cleveland State has four seniors return from the Horizon League title last season, the team lost only Norris Cole, whose first-round pick in the NBA draft.
"I think the players are playing very difficult," said Vikings coach Gary Waters, who attended the Detroit Mackenzie and Ferris State. "They're playing our type of basketball. That's our identity which I think makes us win, but I also think they are playing together as a group and young children came from and do a good job, but I think our upperclassmen lead event.