G’s Exploration or Which Conference Was the Strongest?

Welcome back, college sports fans to the antepenultimate post for the GCR’s 2025-26 season. Just two more to go after today before we take a break as we prepare for the 2026-27 football season. Just in case anyone is wondering, aside from a little bit of down time from posting, the next six weeks will …

G’s Evaluation or The Final Top 365!

Welcome back, college sports fans. Yesterday we posted the final Women’s Top 363 and we come back today to focus on the Men. While congratulating Michigan, we skipped the final GCR prediction record. For the Men we ended 194-93 (.676) and overall were 400-171 (.701). ….. Many of the recent posts have been somewhat lengthy …

G’s Evaluation or The Final Top 363 for 2025-26!

Welcome back, college sports fans, for our first basketball post-tournaments’ day. Congratulations to the Michigan Wolverines who took down the UCONN Huskies, by a score of 69-63, for their 2nd title in school history. That, along with Indiana in football and UCLA in Women’s basketball gives the Big Ten the championship trifecta. Tune in tomorrow …

G’s Expectation or The Final Championship!

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 …

G’s Expectation or The Tri-State Championships

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 …

G’s Expectation or Final Four Part Two

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 …

G’s Exploration or Day One of the Final Four!

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 …

G’s Expectation or Let’s Hear It for the Boys!

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 …

G’s Expectation or A Final, Semifinal, and Quarterfinal Walked into a Bar

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 …

G’s Explanation or One Week to Go!

Welcome back, college sports fans. We have made mistakes before (much too often) with schedules and the occasional bit of information. We feel like we have owned those and tried to learn from them. Yesterday we posted that in addition to the seven Women’s games yesterday, there would be two more today (the NIT semifinals). …