Vandy upsets No. 8 Texas A&M

Jeff Roberson scored 20 points to lead four Vanderbilt players in double figures, and the Commodores hit 13 3-pointers en route to a 77-60 upset of No. 8 Texas on Thursday night in Nashville, Tenn.

Wade Baldwin IV had 17 points and eight assists for Vanderbilt (13-9, 5-4 SEC). Luke Kornet added 14 points and nine rebounds, and Damian Jones finished with 13 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks for the Commodores, who shot 50.8 percent from the field.

Vanderbilt got off to a great start by taking a 14-1 lead on 6 of 7 shooting. Jones and Kornet scored 16 of the Commodores’ first 18 points.

Texas A&M responded with a25-9run that gave the Aggies as 26-23 lead. But Vanderbilt finished the first half with a strong push and held a 40-33 advantage at the break.

Tonny Trocha-Morelos had 13 points to lead the Aggies (18-4, 7-2). Alex Caruso scored 11 and Danuel House 10.

Self angered by KU player: Brannen Greene’s soft, twohanded dunk at the end of Kansas’ rout of Kansas State drew the ire of coach Bill Self on Wednesday night after it padded the Jayhawks’ 18-point margin of victory.

Self, disappointed overall in KU’s play despite the 77-59 victory, opened his postgame news conference by apologizing to “the KState team, their program, coaches (and) players,” according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.

Calling it “totally classless,” Self also addressed Greene’s dunk in a postgame radio interview and guaranteed “it will never happen again.”

“Brannen Greene, we’ve put up with him doing some stuff in the past, but that was probably the biggest (expletive) move I’ve ever had a player do during a game,” Self said, according to the paper. “To dunk the ball like tha twhe nthe other team — Even (Wildcats) their players (were) are going, ‘How disrespectful to the game.’ It certainly showed unbelievably poor sportsmanship.”

Greene was suspended by Self for five games earlier this season for what Kansas called conduct detrimental to the team.