The team plays their home games at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee, as a member of the Southeastern Conference.

After a 21–10 regular season that fell short of lofty preseason expectations, the Commodores captured their first SEC tournament championship in 61 seasons on March 11, 2012, by defeating top-ranked Kentucky in the SEC Tournament finals.

Vanderbilt suffered devastating personnel losses after the 2011–12 season; of their six leading scorers, five graduated and the other declared for the 2012 NBA draft.

[3] In addition, for the second straight offseason, a Vanderbilt assistant accepted a Division I head coaching position.

This season, he named former Commodores player Dan Cage as director of basketball operations and removed that role from his assistants.