Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington and Kentucky coach Mark Pope, who will meet up on Saturday, have defied the perceived challenges of inheriting a college basketball program in year one. Pope's ...

Vanderbilt is off to its best start in a decade and a half, sitting at 15-4 on the year with a statement win over No. 6 Tennessee this past weekend in Mark Byington‘s first season in Nashville. That ...

Tennessee basketball and Vanderbilt play Saturday in Nashville for the first meeting since Mark Byington was hired as the ...

Though Byington, 48, was an under-the-radar hire compared to high-profile moves elsewhere in the SEC, in particular John Calipari moving to Arkansas and being replaced by Mark Pope at Kentucky ...

Under coach Mark Byington, the Commodores’ pressure forced ... At the start of the season, Pope’s professed goal was to average at least 30 attempts, if not 35 attempts, from 3-point land ...

Pope said Butler is "giving us everything ... The Commodores, helmed by first-year coach Mark Byington, have defeated two top-10 teams in a season for the first time since 2006-07 after also ...

The Vanderbilt Commodores got back in the win column on Saturday thanks to a gritty second-half performance that saw the home team turn a 10-point deficit into a eight-point victory over the Texas ...

Byington's jump from James Madison to Vanderbilt ... including Kentucky's Mark Pope, Mississippi State's Chris Jans, Ole Miss' Chris Beard and Missouri's Dennis Gates. CHAZ:Why Rick Barnes isn ...