Vanderbilt basketball never led Friday night in Coral Gables as it fell 109-96 in its final exhibition game and now it's left to watch the tape and evaluate where that went wrong.

Miami led for all but 1:05 on Friday night and looked the part of a top 10 team while Vanderbilt learned it has some things to work through.

Vanderbilt's Friday-night exhibition wasn't televised, but Vandy on SI talked to a number of sources that were in the gym and consulted Friday's box score to get a relativley complete evaluation of Vanderbilt's performance.

Here's a few takeaways from that showing.

Mark Byington isn’t mad about that

Vanderbilt clearly has work to do coming out of a performance like that, but that’s what Byington wanted here. He is probably the happiest person in Vanderbilt’s program about his team losing Friday night.

Now, Byington has found out exactly where this Vanderbilt team–which was largely unscathed through two exhibitions–needs to improve and can hit it head on in the lead up to its Nov.…