Vanderbilt will put the nation’s fourth-highest scoring offense on display when it hosts Texas Southern in Nashville on Thursday.The Commodores (4-0) are averaging 101.5 points per game, having reached triple figures in three of their four contests.Vanderbilt shoots 52.9% from the floor, 40.3% from 3-point range and 74.7% from the line.Duke Miles (16.3 points per game), Tyler Tanner (15.0), Tyler Harris (14.8), Tyler Nickel (14.0), AK Okereke (12.0), Frankie Collins (9.7) and Devin McGlockton (9.5) are part of a balanced scoring effort.The Commodores, who check in at No. 24 in the coaches’ poll, rank No. 4 according to KenPom.com in adjusted offensive efficiency.However, the schedule hasn’t exactly provided tough tests. Vanderbilt’s opponents are 4-14 against Division I teams.The Commodores’ relative weakness so far is interior play. With 6-foot-10 Jacksonville State transfer Mason Nicholson still out, an extra burden has been placed on 6-7 McGlockton, who leads the team in rebounding (7.8 per game).”In the first half, when he got two fouls, I thought it kind of set us back a little bit. We lost some momentum,” Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington said after his team’s 104-75 home win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Saturday.
