GVSU Basketball Weekly Report: Down the Home Stretch

The Grand Valley State Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams began a busy four-game week-long stretch to conclude the regular season on the road this past weekend in Saginaw and Sault Ste. Marie against the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals (Thursday) and Lake Superior State Lakers (Saturday).

The weekend featured the women’s team pulling off a weekend sweep away from home, while the men’s team suffered a pair of tough losses that eventually put them out of the top spot in the GLIAC standings with two games remaining.

Here’s how the weekend panned out for both teams:

*GVSU MEN’S BASKETBALL*

*GVSU WOMEN’S BASKETBALL*

Following their pair of road victories over the weekend, the GVSU Women were able to climb up one spot in the Coaches Poll nationally:

The GVSU Men and Women wrap up the regular season this week with a pair of rivalry tilts in the annual Crosstown Showdown on the road followed by the Anchor-Bone clash back at home:

#2 GVSU WOMEN (25-1, 17-1 GLIAC)

• Tuesday, February 24th at Davenport Panthers (7-19, 5-13) – 5:30 pm
• Thursday, February 26th vs. #13 Ferris State Bulldogs (23-4, 16-2) – 5:30 pm

GVSU MEN (20-6, 13-5 GLIAC)

• Tuesday, February 24th at Davenport Panthers (13-13, 7-11) – 7:30 pm
• Thursday, February 26th vs. Ferris State Bulldogs (10-15, 7-11) – 7:30 pm

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).