There wasn’t much for UCF basketball fans to cheer about on Saturday as the Knights ran into perhaps one of the best shooting teams in the country, as Vanderbilt cruised to a 105-93 win at Addition Financial Arena.

The Commodores shot 61% from the floor in the first half, connecting on 10 3-pointers as they built a 19-point lead. They extended that lead to as many as 27 points in the second half before UCF cut it to 9, but the Knights were never able to get any closer.

UCF (1-1) opened the season with an 82-78 win over Hofstra on Monday night, but had no answers for Vanderbilt’s offense.

“We gave up 105 points tonight and that’s not who we want to be as a team,” said coach Johnny Dawkins. “They’re a high-scoring team, we knew that, but our defense has got to be better.”

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