Nashville, Tenn. ? The videotape reeled off the highlights and quiet moments of arguably the most successful duo ever at Vanderbilt — Chantelle Anderson and Ashley McElhiney.

Fans stopped to watch the touching sequence in Memorial Gym, where they came for an open house in conjunction with selection of the field for the NCAA’s women’s basketball tournament.

Anderson, 34 points short of breaking Vanderbilt’s career scoring record for women and men, and career assists leader McElhiney, paid little attention to the giant screen on the floor where they created so many memories.

“Once you sit back and think about it, we’ve had an awesome career,” McElhiney said Sunday. “We want a Final Four. We want a national championship, and that would be a great thing to end by.”

They want to leave their final mark on Vanderbilt in their final NCAA Tournament. The quest begins Saturday, when the 14th-ranked Commodores (21-9) play Liberty (26-3) in the East Regional. Could it end April 8 in the championship game of the 64-team tournament?

A berth in the Final Four and a national title are about the only things missing from the resumes of the senior duo.

The Commodores are 96-39 since they arrived in 1999. They returned Vanderbilt to the rankings and won the 2002 Southeastern Conference tournament title.

This is their fourth straight NCAA berth, and the Commodores have reached the final eight in each of the past two seasons. This season they are seeded fourth in the East.

“It’s an extremely high standard, and they have so much to do with that and they deserve a lot of credit for that,” Vanderbilt coach Melanie Balcomb said.

The 6-foot-6 Anderson was a highly recruited center out of Vancouver, Wash., a member of the Parade All-America team. But people wondered if she was too polite and soft to play in the physical SEC.

Vanderbilt's Chantelle Anderson, left, and Ashley McElhiney celebrate their win over LSU. The Commodores, who surprised LSU, 72-60, in Nashville, Tenn., are in their fourth straight NCAA Tournament.

The 5-6 McElhiney was Tennessee’s top player out of Gleason High School, but few besides then-Vandy coach Jim Foster thought she could play the point in the nation’s toughest conference.

“We’ve both been proving people wrong, and it would be great to end proving everyone wrong,” Anderson said.

This hasn’t been an easy season for either player. Last year, they had just finished their best season when Foster quit to go to Ohio State.

Replacing Foster turned into a circus when Tom Collen, now going to Louisville, was hired and then quit a day later over a resume flap. Balcomb finally filled the void in June.

Communication has never been a problem for Anderson and McElhiney. They quickly meshed on court and became best friends away from basketball.