Vanderbilt seniors match famed F-Troop with three 1,000-point scorers

Vanderbilt’s current senior trio joined the famed F-Troop of the 1970s in a 92-51 win over Alcorn State Friday as the only classes in program history to tout three 1,000-point scorers.

Matthew Fisher-Davis and Riley LaChance already topped 1,000 points in their careers last season. Fellow senior Jeff Roberson joined the club in the first half against Alcorn State. He entered the game needing 17 points to reach 1,000, and he scored 18 points with four 3-pointers in the first half.

Roberson said his mother, Pamela, alerted him that the 1,000-point club was in reach before he headed to his Houston home for a short holiday break.

After the game, his mom tweeted that she "told him to complete that assignment before he came home for Christmas."

Roberson finished with 21 points and a career-high five 3-pointers. LaChance had 16 points, and Fisher-Davis added 15.

Vanderbilt’s F-Troop, including Butch Feher, Joe Ford and Jeff Fosnes, each were in the 1,000-point club in 1976. They came to the Commodores in the freshman class of the 1972-73 season.

Fisher-Davis, LaChance and Roberson arrived at Vanderbilt in then-coach Kevin Stallings’ 2014 signing class, which also included Wade Baldwin and Shelton Mitchell. Baldwin left Vanderbilt after his sophomore season and became the No. 17 pick of the Memphis Grizzlies. He is now with the G League team of the Portland Trailblazers. Mitchell transferred to Clemson, where he is the starting point guard.

"If you look at our class, if Wade stayed one more year, he would've gotten (1,000 points) too," LaChance said.

Comparing F-Troop to current Commodores

So how does Vanderbilt’s current trio of 1,000-point scorers stack up to the F-Troop?

Fosnes (1,579), Feher (1,345) and Ford (1,193) scored a combined 4,117 points. They posted a 74-33 record over four seasons with an SEC regular-season title and a bid to the NCAA tournament bid, which only included 25 teams at the time.

Fisher-Davis (1,165), LaChance (1,161) and Roberson (1,004) have scored a combined 3,330 points and 19 regular-season games remaining in their senior year. Over three-and-half seasons, they have a record of 64-51 and two NCAA tournament appearances in a 68-team field.

The current trio of 1,000-point scorers does not have a nickname like F-Troop, but LaChance said "someone will have to tweet us" a few suggestions.

3-point turnaround

Vanderbilt's struggles from 3-point range have disappeared in in its first back-to-back wins of the season.

The Commodores made 12 of 30 treys in an 81-48 victory over Houston Baptist Wednesday. That season-best performance was topped by their 17-of-35 outing from 3-point range against Alcorn State.

"If only we would shoot like that every night, you'd feel a lot better as a coach," coach Bryce Drew said. "I thought it was our best game of the year."

Vanderbilt entered the night with the worst 3-point percentage (29.8) in the SEC after leading the league in the same category last season (37.6). It will try to keep up the hot shooting in its Dec. 30 SEC opener at Florida (3 p.m., ESPN2).

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