Ace Glass Scores 19 as No. 22 Vanderbilt Routs Prairie View A&M 89-62

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Three days after Ace Glass waited until halftime to light up Memphis, the Washington State transfer skipped the warmup act entirely. Glass scored Vanderbilt's first eight points on Friday night, finished with 19, and No. 22 Vanderbilt buried Prairie View A&M 89-62 at Memorial Gym to move to 4-0.

The final margin undersells how lopsided the middle of this game was. Vanderbilt closed the first half on a 27-6 run, opened the second half on a 20-4 burst, and turned a 19-11 game into a 66-21 rout. Prairie View won the second half 45-43 once the outcome was settled, a footnote that matters only to the people grading the film.

Chandler Bing added 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting, Tyler Tanner had 14 points, six rebounds, four assists and five steals, and T.O. Barrett scored 12 off the bench. The Panthers fell to 2-3 with their second straight loss to a power-conference opponent.

Eight Points Before Anyone Else Scored

Glass opened with a 3-pointer on Vanderbilt's first trip, assisted by Bing. Fifty-nine seconds later Glass hit another off a Bing feed, then got to the rim for a layup that made it 8-0 with 17:48 left in the first half. Prairie View had not yet made a shot.

That start covered for a sloppy first ten minutes from everyone else. Berke Büyüktuncel had two early giveaways, and an Ant Brown Jr. bad pass turned into an Anthony Gause layup. Davis Bynum kept the Panthers close with a pair of jumpers and a layup, and Gause's basket at 11:04 cut the lead to 19-11.

Then both offenses stalled. Vanderbilt went just over four minutes without a point after Barrett's reverse layup at 11:51, a stretch that included a shot-clock violation and two missed Glass 3-pointers. Prairie View's drought lasted even longer, and Bangot Dak and Tanner each blocked shots at the rim during it.

The 27-6 Run That Ended It

Glass broke the dry spell with a layup at 7:47, and that basket started the run that decided the game.

Tanner made two free throws. Sebastian Williams-Adams hit a jumper off a Tanner pass. Barrett scored on a layup, then picked off a Micah Bell pass and threw down a dunk at the other end. Tanner finished a layup through contact, and when Barrett scored again with 3:26 left, the lead was 20.

The last three minutes belonged to Tanner's hands. The preseason All-American, as the AP described Tanner, picked Gause's pocket at 3:10 and found Dak for a dunk. Tanner stripped Bell at 2:23, and Bing finished a layup on a Glass assist. Tanner then took the ball from Davian Williams at 1:36, and a pass off the backboard set up a Bing dunk. Three steals, three baskets, six points in under two minutes.

Glass added a 3-pointer with 54 seconds left, and Dak scored on a Glass assist with 29 seconds left. Vanderbilt led 46-17 at the break, Glass had 13, and Prairie View made one basket after Gause's bank shot at 4:27.

The Second Half Started the Same Way

If Prairie View coach Byron Smith had a halftime adjustment planned, Vanderbilt never let it breathe. Bing opened the half with two free throws. Glass stole a Gause pass and fed Tanner for a dunk. Williams-Adams hit a jumper, Bing went back to the line, and another Glass steal became a Bing and-one chance.

Tanner then grabbed two more steals about 20 seconds apart. The first led to a Tanner dunk on a Bing assist, the second to a Williams-Adams layup on a Tanner feed. That made it 66-21 with 15:11 left, a 45-point lead, and meant the Commodores had outscored Prairie View 47-10 across the two runs that bracketed halftime.

What followed was the least flattering stretch of Vanderbilt's night. Mark Byington went deeper into the bench, and the turnovers came in clusters. Tanner coughed it up twice in about 30 seconds, and Barrett committed three in a little more than two minutes. Prairie View strung together a 15-4 run between 14:44 and 10:53, with Gause, Bryant Ajiero, Jaylen Lee and Jaylen Wharton all scoring. Glass ended the leak with a 3-pointer at 10:32 and added another at 8:01 to reach 19.

Bing, Barrett and the Supporting Cast

Glass gets the headline, but the most efficient night belonged to Bing. The wing went 5 of 7 from the floor and 5 of 7 at the line with four rebounds and four assists, and was involved in nearly every good first-half possession, either as the passer on Glass' opening 3s or the finisher on Tanner's steals.

Barrett made 5 of 6 shots for 12 points and had the steal-and-dunk sequence that helped launch the decisive run. The four turnovers are the asterisk. Williams-Adams was 4 of 5 for nine points with seven rebounds. Jayden Leverett made all four shots for eight points. Dak scored only four but pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds in 20 minutes.

The team numbers tell a two-sided story. Vanderbilt shot 34 of 60, 56.7 percent, won the glass 44-19 by the AP count and owned the paint 56-36, with 10 steals and five blocks. But the Commodores went 6 of 21 from 3-point range, and Glass made five of those six on 11 attempts. Everyone else went 1 of 10. Vanderbilt also committed 15 turnovers, four each from Barrett and Brown. Against a 2-2 opponent that was survivable. Against an SEC roster it will not be.

Prairie View's Long Week Gets Longer

For the Panthers, Friday was the second of three straight power-conference road games, and it looked a lot like the first, a 98-63 loss at SMU on Tuesday. Gause, who scored 26 in that game, had 13 on 6-of-12 shooting. Michael Eley came in averaging a team-best 16.5 points and had 11 on 3-of-11 shooting. Bynum added 11 on 16 shots.

The bright spot came off the bench. Elijah Mitchell scored 15 points on 7-of-10 shooting in a team-high 36 minutes, including nine of Prairie View's final 12 points. The Panthers shot 44.3 percent but went 2 of 8 from deep and attempted only eight free throws.

This is a program coming off its best season in years. Prairie View went 19-18 last season, its first winning record since 2020-21, beat Lehigh in the First Four and then lost to Florida. The road continues Monday at Ohio State.

What It Means for Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt is 4-0, and every win has come by at least 23 points. The school's preview noted the Commodores entered Friday with 21 straight nonconference wins, a program record, so that streak now stands at 22. The season-opening home stand continues Tuesday against Eastern Illinois at Memorial Gym, at 7 p.m. Central on SEC Network+.

Glass is the early story of this team, with 42 points and 10 3-pointers over the last two games. Tanner remains the engine, and five steals in 28 minutes showed how much the Vanderbilt defense can swing on a night with just 10 Tanner shots.

The questions are the usual November ones. The 3-point shooting outside of Glass was cold, and ball security slipped once the game was decided. Neither cost Vanderbilt anything Friday. Both will matter in January.

For more on the Commodores' start, revisit Glass' 23-point second half against Memphis and Tanner's double-double against Wake Forest. The full numbers are in the official box score (opens in a new tab) and the CBS Sports box score (opens in a new tab).

Sources: Vanderbilt Athletics, CBS Sports, Associated Press, Sports Illustrated. More men's college basketball coverage on Undrafted.

Nobody in Nashville will mistake this for a résumé game. But a team that can turn three straight steals into six points in under two minutes, and a 19-11 grind into a 45-point lead before the second half is five minutes old, knows how to end a game early. Vanderbilt did it again Friday and keeps making it look routine.

Photo: Beau Brune/Vanderbilt Athletics (file photo of Tyler Tanner vs. Wake Forest, Nov. 5, 2026).