Welcome back, college sports fans, to the final day of the Conference Championship Tourneys. Congratulations the 11 men’s teams who won their conference and punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament: Duke (ACC), Balt County (AmEast), Arizona (Big 12), St Johns (Big East), Hawaii (Big West), Kennesaw St (Conference USA), Akron (MAC), Howard (MEAC), Utah St (Mountain West), Prairie View (SWAC), and CA Baptist (WAC). Additional congratulations are in order for the 8 women’s teams who earned the trophy and the ticket: UTSA (American), UC San Diego (Big West), Missouri St (Conference USA), Princeton (Ivy), Miami OH (MAC), Howard (MEAC), Southern (SWAC), CA Baptist (WAC).
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Today is nothing but finals, but much fewer than yesterday – just 5 for the men and 4 for the women. The men’s brackets reveal is tonight at 6:00 on CBS followed by the women’s breakdown at 8:00 on ESPN. Tune in tomorrow for a mega-episode in which we publish the final pre-tournament Top 363 and Top 365 for the season. They will be the last rankings until the NCAA champions are crowned. We will continue posting daily games and predictions (with current records/rank) as we have done for the conference tourneys.
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Yesterday, the GCR was 7-4 (.636) predicting the women’s games bringing the total to 108-42 (.720). Here are all the games today.
| CONF | Round | Game (All Times Eastern) | Tipoff | Prediction |
| Patriot | FINAL | Lehigh (17-13/162) / Holy Cross (22-9/96) | 12:00 | Holy Cross |
| Northeast | FINAL | Long Island (21-10/193) / Fair Dickins (29-4/92) | 12:00 | Fair Dickins |
| Coastal | FINAL | Hofstra (11-21/262) / Charleston (26-5/27) | 2:00 | Charleston |
| Missouri Valley | FINAL | Evansville (10-24/314) / Murray St (30-3/35) | 2:00 | Murray St |
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Likewise, the GCR was 14-6 (.700) predicting the men’s games bringing the total to 139-64 (.685). Overall, the 353 games we’ve predicted resulted in a 247-106 (.700) record – spot on our target success rate. The NO PRED for the SEC championship is because the GCR’s Score metric (one predictor) has Vanderbilt winning by 0.86 points while the GCR’s RPIF metric (the other predictor) has Arkansas winning by 1.34 points. Because they disagree, we cannot predict the game. Here are the men’s games today.
| CONF | Round | Game (All Times Eastern) | Tipoff | Prediction |
| Ivy | FINAL | Penn (17-11/100) / Yale (24-5/24) | 12:00 | Yale |
| SEC | FINAL | Vanderbilt (26-7/12) / Arkansas (25-8/13) | 1:00 | NO PRED |
| A10 | FINAL | Dayton (23-10/52) / VCU (26-7/27) | 1:00 | VCU |
| American | FINAL | Wichita St (22-10/78) / South Florida (24-8/42) | 3:15 | South Florida |
| Big Ten | FINAL | Purdue (26-8/16) / Michigan (31-2/2) | 3:30 | Michigan |
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That’s it for today. Thank you for continuing to read our posts. You can find all of them on website at http://bit.ly/2019GCR or on our Facebook page Gettys Computer Ranking – College Football or more recent posts on our LinkedIn page G. Robert Gettys. See you tomorrow, JoJo and G.
