Vanderbilt freshman pitcher Donny Everett drowned while fishing in Tennessee a day before the Commodores were to open the NCAA Tournament on Friday. The Coffee County Sheriff's Department said in a statement Friday that Everett was with two teammates and two other people when he tried to swim across Normandy Lake near a bridge on Thursday. Everett was halfway across when he asked for help, but friends told Deputy Charles Taylor that they thought Everett was joking because he was smiling.
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