The No. 4 Vanderbilt Commodores (26-7) began the season at 16-0.

They enter the NCAA Tournament losing three of the last five games, including an SEC Tournament quarterfinal defeat against Arkansas.

Vandy coach Kevin Stallings wasn’t going to play fun with numbers. He said none of them will dictate how the Commodores perform in the first round against Siena.

‘’It’s not fair to take one snapshot and say you’re playing well or you’re not,’’ Stallings told the (Nashville) Tennessean. ‘’Last season, we’d lost our last two [before reaching the Sweet 16]. It didn’t seem to affect us.

‘’I’m not concerned with three losses in the last five games. The game before that, we beat the team [Tennessee] that was No. 1 in the country.’’