By Teresa M. Walker

AP sports writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Vanderbilt has a roster loaded with seniors. LSU starts a couple of freshmen and sophomores, and the Commodores showed what experience can mean in crunch time.

Senior center Festus Ezeli matched his season-high with 21 points in helping Vanderbilt beat LSU 76-61 Wednesday night and snap a two-game skid. 

"I was proud of my team," Vanderbilt Coach Kevin Stallings said. "I thought we

News travels fast. When that news concerns LSU football, it travels faster.

Jeryl Brazil, a junior athlete from Loranger High School and the first commit in the LSU class of 2013, learned that the hard way.

When he tweeted "I decommited from LSU" on Jan. 29, he sent fans into a frenzy. They sounded off on the popular message board Tiger Droppings, worrying LSU could no longer recruit and that the program's prestige had taken a hit after the BCS Championship debacle.

Brazil didn't expect the reaction to be so severe.

"People freaked out thinking I didn't like LSU anymore, and that I wanted to go somewhere else," Brazil said. "That wasn't the case. I knew people were going to jump the gun and think otherwise without actually knowing anything."

The truth was Brazil hadn't actually decommitted . He had expressed interest in checking out other schools and wanted

The experts already have declared the upcoming NBA draft will be a deep one, full of talented players, gushing with potential, perhaps possessing a franchise changer or three.

But they haven’t yet identified this year’s Derrick Rose. There’s no consensus on whom, if anyone, is the singular player that teams are crossing fingers and loading up on good-luck charms to draft.

That’s not to say a member of the Class