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Vanderbilt basketball will host an exhibition against Virginia on Oct. 16, the program announced in a release.

New coach Mark Byington thinks he can turn around Vanderbilt basketball − and do so relatively quickly. But he said he's not a miracle worker: "I'm not good enough to coach bad players." ...

A couple of weeks ago was Mark Byington’s 48th birthday. For the occasion, he enjoyed a shrimp po’boy sandwich, eaten alone. “It sounds sad,” he says, “but I mean, it was another day.” ...

Vanderbilt basketball is facing a rebuild under new coach Mark Byington. The Commodores finished 9-23 in 2023-24 and will lose their leading scorer, Ezra Manjon, who is out of eligibility.

When coach Mark Byington left James Madison to take the job with Vanderbilt basketball, he was ultimately left with only one scholarship holdover. Sophomore JQ Roberts, who played sparingly as a ...

Byington had swung and missed when Bickerstaff came out of high school — he chose then-CAA rival Drexel instead — and again when Bickerstaff transferred from Drexel and chose Boston College.

As Mark Byington reflected on the 2024-25 season and evaluated where he wanted to go in the transfer portal, he realized how tired he was of standing on the sideline and watching his team fade ...

It’s Mar. 24 and each member of Mark Byington ’s Vanderbilt staff has a few names in mind as they walk into their first-floor office room outside of the practice court at the Huber Center.

My mentality is probably the same with Mark Pope, you do the best you can at that time." Byington's team still shows some tells of being a year-one roster, but Pope has noticed other things more.

The market for Mark Byington, who led JMU to 32 wins this season, has never been better. And now that Byington’s JMU squad is out of the NCAA Tournament, bounced by Duke, 93-55, in the second ...