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Welcome back, college sports fans to the final Expectation of the GCR’s 2025-2026 season. Congratulations to the UCLA Bruins for winning their first ever NCAA championship game. They did it in splendid fashion, beating the Vegas-favored Gamecocks on both sides of the ball and from tip to buzzer. With the GCR’s correct prediction, we ended …
Welcome back, college sports fans. Yesterday, we had the Women’s NIT Championships and congratulations are in order for the Marshall Thundering Herd for besting Illinois St 66-41 to take home the title. With predicting that game correctly and just one Women’s game to go, the GCR is now 205-79 (.722) this postseason. The Men had …
Welcome back, college sports fans. What a crazy Women’s Final Four. First, and most important, congratulations to South Carolina and UCLA who won defensive-focused games to cement their spots in Sunday’s Championship game. Texas had no answer for Lauren Betts and the UCLA Bruins who held their best opponent to just 6 points on 3-23 …
Welcome back, college sports fans. Yesterday, there were four Men’s games (CBC Quarterfinals and NIT Semifinals). We were just 2-2 (.500) missing Tulsa over New Mexico (NIT) and West Virginia over Stanford (CBC). That brings the Men’s total to 190-92 (.674) and the overall record to 390-170 (.696). With just 14 games left, it is …
Welcome back, college sports fans. Because there are no Women’s games today, it is the first Men’s only gameday since March 17 which was the first day of the Tournament season (games in the NIT and NCAA). The Women started the next day. During that 16-day span, the Men have had three days with no …
Happy April Fool’s Day, oh great and wonderful college sports fans. With no games yesterday, we had the opportunity to clean things up a little bit, you know, correcting any input issues over the hectic few weeks of Tournament basketball. We had the day off before the final six-day push. There are only seven more …
Read More “G’s Expectation or A Final, Semifinal, and Quarterfinal Walked into a Bar”
Welcome back, college sports fans, to our 630th episode, including 160 this “fiscal” year which began last May. Counting today, there will be 8 more Expectations followed by a final Women’s Top 363 and then a Men’s Top 365. In May, we will have our annual Explanation talking about the football conference changes, promotions to …
Welcome back, college sports fans, as we jump into a 5-game slate today with all games in their respective tournament’s Elite 8 aka the Quarterfinals. Yesterday, the GCR was a perfect 6-0 which brought our overall total to 376-164 (.696). Our goal is .700 so we are inching close to it. ….. In the tables …
Read More “G’s Expectation or The Funnel Is Getting Smaller”
Welcome back, college sports fans to our latest episode (#628). Yesterday we had buzzer beaters (Duke over LSU), near upsets (Duke edging St Johns), actual upsets (Notre Dame over Vanderbilt), and the occasional blowout (UCONN over North Carolina). We now have 24 Women’s teams left (12 in the NCAA, 4 in the WBIT, and 8 …
Welcome back, college sports fans. Once the conference tourneys crowned their champions, we began our six-tournament postseason with 256 teams vying for six titles. That’s 250 games or, pessimistically, 250 teams that will end their seasons on a loss. After the 11 games played yesterday, we begin today with just 55 teams left. With just …
