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HIGH POINT, N.C. - The High Point University men's basketball team's game at Vanderbilt on December 6 will be broadcast live on SEC Network Plus.

The contest between the Panthers and Commodores will tip at 8 p.m. inside Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tenn. It will mark the second meeting between the schools and HPU's 14^th all-time game against an SEC opponent.

Vanderbilt returns nine letter winners and three starters from a team that won 19 games in 2015-16 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. The Commodores will be under the direction of first year head coach Bryce Drew, who comes to Nashville after five seasons and two NCAA Tournament appearances at Valparaiso.

About the Panthers: The High Point University men's basketball team is coming off another record-breaking season in 2015-16 that saw the Panthers set a new Div. I program record for Big South road wins (7) while tying the school record for overall league wins (13). The Panthers won 21 games overall, marking the first time HPU had won 20+ games in back-to-back seasons since 1994-95. The Panthers advanced to the NIT for the second time in three years and made their fourth-consecutive postseason appearance overall. HPU is the winningest Big South program over the past four years and is one of just four schools nationally to have won a regular season conference title in each of the past three campaigns (Gonzaga, Kansas, Stephen F. Austin).

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