The 2012–13 Vanderbilt Commodores Men's Basketball Team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2012–13 college basketball season. The team's head coach was Kevin Stallings, in his fourteenth season at Vanderbilt. The team plays their home games at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee, as a member of the Southeastern Conference.

Previous season 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. The Commodores advanced to their third consecutive NCAA tournament where they defeated Harvard in the second round before falling the third round to Wisconsin to finish the season 25–11.

Departures 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. In all, the Commodores lost 88.1% of their scoring from 2011 to 2012. Also, the Commodores' returning players had started a total of three games in the 2011–12 season. Of the 14 SEC teams in the 2012–13 season, Vanderbilt was one of only three that did not return a player who averaged double figures in points in the previous season, and the only team that returned fewer starts was Kentucky, which did not return a single player who had started a game in 2011–12.

In addition, for the second straight offseason, a Vanderbilt assistant accepted a Division I head coaching position. In the 2011 offseason, King Rice left to become the head coach at Monmouth. This offseason, Dan Muller returned to his alma mater of Illinois State. Stallings chose not to hire a new assistant. Previously, he had rotated the administrative role of director of basketball operations among his assistants. This season, he named former Commodores player Dan Cage as director of basketball operations and removed that role from his assistants. (paywall)

Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes 3 C 255 Benin City, Nigeria Graduated 5 G/F 230 Brooklyn, New York Graduated 12 SG 200 Lexington, Kentucky Graduated; did not return to team (paywall) 23 SG 210 Hendersonville, Tennessee Declared for NBA draft 14 SF 220 Fort Mitchell, Kentucky Graduated 44 G/F 225 Norrköping, Sweden Graduated 33 PF 245 Douala, Cameroon Graduated 1 PG 220 Oregon City, Oregon Graduated

Roster

Schedule

!colspan=12| Exhibition

!colspan=12| Non-conference regular season

!colspan=12| SEC Regular Season

!colspan=12| 2013 SEC tournament

| colspan="12" | *Non-Conference Game. Rankings from AP poll. All times are in Central Time.

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