Merideth Marsh tied a school record with eight 3-pointers and finished with a career-high 26 points as #24 Vanderbilt upset ninth-ranked Florida 84-68 Thursday night, snapping the Gators' seven-game winning streak. Vanderbilt (19-6, 8-2) pulled into a tie with Florida for second in the Southeastern Conference with its second win overall and fourth straight in this series. The preseason favorite to win their first SEC title this season, the Commodores opened the game by scoring the first 10 points and never trailed in routing the Gators.

Marsh went 8-of-13 from 3-point range and tied Abi Ramsey, who also hit eight 3s against Florida in 2005. Christina Wirth finished with 20 points, Hannah Tuomi added 17 and Jennifer Risper 12. Sha Brooks, the SEC's second-leading scorer, finished with seven points before fouling out for Florida (22-3, 8-2). Azania Stewart led the Gators with 16 points, and Steffi Sorenson had 11. Florida, coming off a rare win against Tennessee on Sunday, missed a chance at its best start in SEC play in what is a homecoming game for Gators coach Amanda Butler, who played high school ball in nearby Mt. Juliet.

Brooks, a native of Jackson, Tenn., scored 29 points in each other previoius two games and was averaging 16.4 points. This was her first game not in single digits since Dec. 10 against Coppin State. Vanderbilt couldn't have started much better, hitting seven of its first 11 shots from 3-point range. The Commodores, fifth in the country in shooting, shot 26-for-58 from the field - including 13-for-23 on 3s.

The Commodores led 24-7 when Wirth hit her third of four 3s in the first half with 11:49 to go. The Gators tried to make a game of it as Brooks capped a 12-2 spurt with a layup to pull Florida to 31-25, but the Commodores led by eight at halftime. Then Brooks picked up her third foul within the first 2 minutes, and the Gators couldn't stay out of foul trouble. Vandy just kept padding its lead with Marsh hitting five 3s in the second half, and the Commodores led by 27 in the final minutes.