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Wednesday, Feb. 2 7:30pm ET
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Dan Langhi knows the importance of winning on the road, and he was the big reason Vanderbilt (No. 23 ESPN/USA Today, No. 24 AP) won at Georgia 67-58 Wednesday night. "You've got to get wins on the road to have any chance at postseason," Langhi said after scoring 26 points for the Commodores, who won despite 23 turnovers. "It really wasn't a pretty game," Langhi said. "We didn't do a great job of taking care of the ball." The Commodores (14-4, 5-3 Southeastern Conference) won on the road for the fourth time this season. They snapped a four-game losing streak in the series, overcoming a nine-point deficit with an 11-0 run that carried over halftime. Shon Coleman scored 19 points and D.A. Layne 16 to lead the Bulldogs (9-12, 2-6), who lost their third in a row. "We weren't taking care of the ball tonight," Vandy coach Kevin Stallings said. "I was disturbed more about that than our shooting. We really had no regard for the ball." Georgia built a 24-15 lead in the first eight minutes before Langhi scored 11 points during a six-minute stretch, cutting the lead to 34-33 2:23 before halftime. A 3-pointer by Atiba Prater put the Commodores in front 36-34 before Anthony Evans tied it on a tip-in. Sam Lekwauwa's basket with 1:15 left in the half gave Vandy the lead for good. Then Langi scored five points and Anthony Williams and Lekwauwa two each at the start of the second half to build a 47-36 lead. "I thought we started out well early in the game," Georgia coach Jim Harrick said. "We did some good things, but we wasted a lot of opportunities and could have been up a lot more than we were. We struggled tonight from the free throw line (10-of-21) and I think we got frustrated because of that." Georgia cut the lead to 53-48 on Badi Oliver's free throw with 8:02 to play, but the Bulldogs got no closer. Prater added 12 points and Williams 10 for the Commodores, who became the first team to outrebound Georgia since the start of the new year, 45-32. Evans had 10 points and 14 rebounds for Georgia.
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