GVSU Basketball Weekly Report: Beating Your Rivals

The Grand Valley State Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams wrapped up the 2025-26 regular season with a pair of rivalry battles last week against the Davenport Panthers (road) and Ferris State Bulldogs (home) to complete a stretch run of four games in the span of a week.

After the four games were completed, it was The GVSU Men and Women that seized complete control of the “Crosstown Showdown” and Anchor-Bone Classic by going a perfect 4-0 for the week and both capturing regular season sweeps over their rivals.

Here’s how the regular season concluded for both teams:

*GVSU MEN’S BASKETBALL*

*GVSU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL*

GLIAC Women’s Basketball still goes through Allendale as the Laker Women captured its fifth consecutive outright conference regular season crown following their victory over rival Ferris State:

Both the GVSU Men and Women find themselves in good positions when it comes to locking up a spot in the upcoming NCAA Tournament with the women looking to host the Midwest Regional for the third consecutive season:

“March Madness” gets going this week with the GLIAC Postseason Tournament that begins on Wednesday night with a quarterfinal home doubleheader followed by the semifinals and finals taking place this coming weekend:

#2 GVSU WOMEN (27-1, 19-1 GLIAC)

• Wednesday, March 4th vs. Lake Superior State Lakers (8-20, 5-15) – 5:30 pm
• GLIAC Tournament Semifinal – Saturday, March 7th – TBD *IF NECESSARY*
• GLIAC Tournament Championship – Sunday, March 8th – TBD *IF NECESSARY*

#25 GVSU MEN (22-6, 15-5 GLIAC)

• Wednesday, March 4th vs. Wayne State Warriors (13-13, 10-10) – 7:30 pm
• GLIAC Tournament Semifinal – Saturday, March 7th – TBD *IF NECESSARY*
• GLIAC Tournament Championship – Sunday, March 8th – TBD *IF NECESSARY*

You can catch live coverage beginning 15 minutes prior to the opening tip on Thunder 107.3 FM (thunder1073.com), The Ticket West Michigan (106.1 FM, 1340 AM, and theticketmi.com), and Classic Hits 98.3 FM WLCS (983wlcs.com).