Sept. 2, 2010

Quick Slant is an array of brief insights and occasionally opinionated overviews of collegiate athletics in general and the Vanderbilt Commodores in particular.

• Today's Question and Quiz: How competitive within the Southeastern Conference is Vanderbilt in the major sports of football, men's and women's basketball and baseball over the last two years (08-09 and 09-10)?
  
  Taking each of those four sports, give one point for each program that qualified for the NCAA Tournament during that year or appeared in a football bowl game. It would thus be possible for each school to earn four points per year, eight over the two years. Where would Vanderbilt rank? (answer at bottom)

• Southeastern Conference Player of the Year Marina Alex of our women's golf team will be introduced during the first quarter of Saturday's Northwestern game.

• How important is the Hall of Fame Weekend? One new inductee, Shan Foster, is flying in from Belgium to attend in person!

Answer to Quiz: You will surprise some people with this.
LSU - 7 points
Vanderbilt - 6 points
Florida - 6 points
Kentucky - 6 points
Georgia - 5 points
Tennessee - 5 points
Alabama - 4 points
Miss. State - 4 points
Auburn - 3 points
Arkansas - 3 points
Ole Miss  - 3 points
South Carolina - 3 points

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