Welcome back, oh great and wonderful college sports fans, to episode 738 or a day of basketball. Yesterday, the GCR had 10 men’s games that we could predict going 5-5 (500) and bringing the season to 6-5 (545). As a reminder, in order to be able to predict, both teams must be in Division I (D1), both teams must have played at least two games, and both GCR algorithms must agree on the winner. If any of these rules fail, we list the game as NPre (No Prediction). After November, the rate at which teams play Non-D1 teams reduces. We are almost through the less than two games rule. The third rule will continue to have impact throughout the season, but is the least likely of the rules to be applied. The women had 36 predicted games yesterday going 26-10 (722) and 27-11 (711) for the season. That means the combined rate was 31-15 (674), which is really not bad for early November and 33-16 (673) for the year so far.
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Today, we have 49 men’s games with 27 passing all three prediction tests. 16 of the games involve a non-D1 team. Here’s the slate:
| Time | MBB November 9th (All Times Eastern) | Conf | Pred | TV |
| 11:00am | Cheyney (—) / Coppin St (0-2/170) | —/MEAC | NPre | MEAC Network |
| 6:00 | Hiram (—) / Canisius (0-2/294) | —/MAAC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 6:00 | Marshall (1-1/318) / Ohio St (1-1/17) | SUN/B10 | OHST | Big Ten Network |
| 6:00 | McDaniel (—) / Balt County (0-2/302) | —/AME | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 6:30 | Syracuse (2-0/101) / Indiana (2-0/208) | ACC/B10 | SYR | Fox Sports 1 |
| 6:30 | Howard (1-1/289) / Penn (0-1/94) | MEAC/Ivy | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 6:30 | Schuylkill (—) / Buffalo (0-2/264) | —/MAC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Long Island (0-3/329) / Towson (0-2/215) | NEC/CAA | TOW | FloCollege |
| 7:00 | Minnesota (2-0/34) / Cincinnati (2-0/42) | B10/B12 | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Fla Gulf Coast (1-1/154) / Georgia (2-0/182) | ASUN/SEC | NPre | SEC+ |
| 7:00 | Cleveland St (1-1/308) / Bowling Green (1-0/141) | HOR/MAC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Grambling (1-0/142) / Texas (2-0/63) | SWAC/SEC | NPre | SEC+ |
| 7:00 | North Florida (1-1/112) / Miami FL (1-1/51) | ASUN/ACC | MIAF | ACC Network |
| 7:00 | SC Upstate (0-2/300) / Coastal (0-2/286) | BSO/SUN | CCAR | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | SC St (2-0/350) / Chicago St (1-1/128) | MEAC/NEC | CHST | NEC Front Row |
| 7:00 | Radford (0-2/267) / Tennessee (1-0/85) | BSO/SEC | NPre | SEC+ |
| 7:00 | North Dakota (1-1/120) / Clemson (2-0/211) | SUM/ACC | NPre | ACC Extra |
| 7:00 | Washington MD (—) / Loyola MD (0-2/283) | —/PAT | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Brescia (—) / Ball St (0-2/347) | —/MAC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Stonehill (1-1/307) / Columbia (1-1/282) | NEC/Ivy | COLA | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Elmira Coll (—) / Le Moyne (0-2/186) | —/NEC | NPre | NEC Front Row |
| 7:00 | GA Gwinnett (—) / Alabama St (0-1/97) | —/SWAC | NPre | Hornet Sports |
| 7:00 | Simpson IA (—) / W Illinois (0-2/284) | —/OVC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Florida Bapt (—) / West Florida (1-1/271) | —/ASUN | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Wagner (0-2/237) / UCONN (2-0/29) | NEC/BE | UCON | truTV |
| 7:00 | Kansas City (1-1/62) / Jacksonville (1-1/158) | SUM/ASUN | KC | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Covenant (—) / Chattanooga (0-2/207) | —/SoCon | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | E Illinois (0-2/177) / Notre Dame (2-0/10) | OVC/ACC | ND | ACC Extra |
| 7:00 | Greensboro (1-1/280) / IL Chicago (2-0/349) | SoCon/MVC | GRBO | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Muskingum (—) / Akron (1-0/315) | —/MAC | NPre | — |
| 7:30 | Jackson St (1-1/52) / Mississippi St (2-0/59) | SWAC/SEC | NPre | SEC+ |
| 7:30 | Oakland (0-3/319) / Alabama (2-0/18) | HOR/SEC | ALA | SEC+ |
| 7:30 | Florida A&M (0-2/346) / UAB (1-1/96) | SWAC/AAC | UAB | ESPN+ |
| 7:30 | Biblical Sdy Hou (—) / McNeese (1-1/47) | —/SLAN | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 8:00 | SIUE (2-1/354) / Missouri (1-1/13) | OVC/SEC | MIZZ | SEC+ |
| 8:00 | LA Tech (2-0/254) / LSU (2-0/77) | SUN/SEC | LSU | SEC+ |
| 8:00 | Boston Univ (2-0/194) / Northwestern (2-0/6) | PAT/B10 | NW | Big Ten Network |
| 8:00 | ULM (1-1/281) / Texas A&M (2-0/25) | SUN/SEC | TAM | SEC+ |
| 8:00 | North Alabama (2-0/256) / Oklahoma (1-1/82) | UAC/SEC | OKLA | SEC+ |
| 8:00 | S New Orl (—) / Louisiana (0-2/332) | —/SUN | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 8:00 | Fisk (—) / TN St (1-1/277) | —/OVC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 8:30 | Illinois St (1-1/328) / Purdue (0-2/185) | MVC/B10 | PUR | Fox Sports 1 |
| 9:00 | Charlotte (2-0/32) / Seton Hall (2-0/251) | AAC/BE | CLT | ESPN+ |
| 9:00 | App St (2-0/323) / Auburn (1-0/36) | SUN/SEC | NPre | SEC+ |
| 9:00 | Alabama A&M (2-0/363) / Depaul (2-0/31) | SWAC/BE | DEP | truTV |
| 9:30 | E Washington (0-2/184) / Oregon St (2-0/288) | SKY/P12 | EWA | YouTube |
| 9:30 | Arlington (2-1/133) / Bethesda (—) | UAC/— | NPre | — |
| 10:00 | MS Valley (0-1/217) / Washington (1-0/223) | SWAC/B10 | NPre | Big Ten Network |
| 10:00 | Rice (1-1/150) / Stanford (2-0/210) | AAC/ACC | NPre | ACC Extra |
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The women have 39 games including 20 predictions. There are 14 games against non-D1 teams. We are sure you agree we are ready for those to be over. They create a lot more work for the staff (ok JoJo and G) at GCR HQ (ok G’s living room) and only hurts the teams playing down. Of course, many of the teams that play these games are teams in the lower ranks of D1 and often play up to lose by 80, so we guess there is a balance here. Again, the women play these games about 7.5% of the time while the men play 9.5%. Here is today’s women’s agenda.
| Time | WBB November 9th (all times Eastern) | Conf | Pred | TV |
| 11:00am | Otterbien (—) / Ohio (1-0/77) | —/MAC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 11:30am | Pensacola Chr (—) / West Florida (0-2/285) | —/UAC | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 12:00 | Rogers St (—) / Oral Roberts (1-1/135) | —/SUM | NPre | — |
| 12:00 | Nwestern St (1-1/156) / Oklahoma St (2-0/119) | SLAN/B12 | OKST | ESPN+ |
| 12:00 | Asheville (2-0/346) / Samford (1-1/234) | BSO/SoCon | SAM | ESPN+ |
| 12:00 | TN Tech (1-1/133) / Missouri (2-0/13) | SoCon/SEC | MIZZ | SEC+ |
| 12:00 | Miles (—) / Alabama A&M (0-2/315) | —/SWAC | NPre | SWAC TV |
| 12:00 | Ark Bapt (—) / Ark Pine Bluff (0-2/262) | —/SWAC | NPre | — |
| 2:00 | Idaho (2-0/211) / Washington St (0-2/169) | SKY/P12 | WAST | — |
| 4:00 | Delaware (0-1/65) / Towson (0-2/340) | USA/CAA | NPre | FloCollege |
| 6:00 | Savannah St (—) / Ga Southern (0-2/294) | —/SUN | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 6:00 | Harvard (1-1/79) / Holy Cross (2-0/106) | IVY/PAT | HARV | ESPN+ |
| 6:00 | Fayetteville (—) / NC Central (1-2/199) | —/MEAC | NPre | MEAC Network |
| 6:30 | South Alabama (1-1/186) / UCF (1-1/34) | SUN/B12 | UCF | ESPN+ |
| 6:30 | E Stroudsburg (—) / Fair Dickins (0-2/172) | —/NEC | NPre | — |
| 7:00 | Lamar (1-1/320) / Texas Tech (1-0/225) | SLAN/B12 | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Apprentice (—) / Hampton (0-2/167) | —/CAA | NPre | — |
| 7:00 | Carolina U (—) / Queens (0-2/154) | —/ASUN | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Bradley (1-1/43) / Indiana (2-0/55) | MVC/B10 | BRAD | B1G+ |
| 7:00 | North Alabama (0-2/197) / Jax St (2-0/353) | UAC/USA | NALA | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Little Rock (1-1/162) / Memphis (2-0/250) | UAC/AAC | LR | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | MS for Women (—) / Jackson St (0-2/240) | —/SWAC | NPre | — |
| 7:00 | Penn St (0-2/189) / Dayton (0-1/148) | B10/A10 | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Longwood (2-0/351) / Charlotte (0-2/308) | BSO/AAC | CLT | ESPN+ |
| 7:00 | Coppin St (1-1/166) / C Connecticut (0-2/327) | MEAC/NEC | COPP | — |
| 7:00 | MS Valley (0-2/329) / Southern Miss (1-1/157) | SWAC/SUN | SMIS | ESPN+ |
| 7:30 | Morehead St (0-2/235) / Vanderbilt (2-0/95) | OVC/SEC | VAN | SEC+ |
| 7:30 | Kansas City (2-0/342) / Arkansas (2-0/73) | SUM/SEC | ARK | SEC+ |
| 7:30 | W Illinois (1-1/164) / Omaha (1-1/159) | OVC/SUM | OMA | Summit Network |
| 7:30 | C Arkansas (1-1/132) / ULM (1-1/283) | UAC/SUN | CARK | ESPN+ |
| 8:00 | Creighton (1-0/29) / North Dakota St (1-1/309) | BE/SUM | NPre | Summit Network |
| 8:00 | N NM (—) / N Colorado (1-1/165) | —/SKY | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 8:30 | Park Gilbert (—) / S Utah (1-1/321) | —/SKY | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 9:00 | Bethune (2-0/246) / Utah (2-0/28) | SWAC/B12 | UTAH | ESPN+ |
| 9:00 | Cal Poly (2-0/352) / Idaho St (1-1/134) | BW/SKY | IDST | ESPN+ |
| 9:00 | Seattle (2-0/75) / Santa Barbara (2-0/247) | WCC/BW | SEA | ESPN+ |
| 9:00 | Santa Clara (2-0/122) / Long Beach (0-1/66) | WCC/BW | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 9:30 | Cal St EB (—) / Sacramento St (2-0/123) | —/BW | NPre | ESPN+ |
| 10:00 | Oregon (2-0/193) / Grand Canyon (1-0/297) | B10/MTW | NPre | CBS Sports |
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That’s it for today. Tune in tomorrow for the first triple-header of the week as MACNation joins Tuesday basketball. Until then, thank you for reading, commenting, and sharing with others, JoJo and G.
