NCAA Tournament Pool

NCAA TOURNAMENT POOL STANDINGS

Onto the Final Four

We lost another potential champion when Connecticut beat Michigan State.  The second game was just as important as several people had Michigan in the Final Four and a few hand them in the championship game.

The top of the charts tightened up as 89 people in the pool failed to earn any points yesterday.  That leaves only 8 who gained ground on everyone else, including Barkley Sosa, who picked Kentucky for the Final Four, and is the highest bracket with both teams in her championship game left in the tournament.  Barkley was joined in selecting Kentucky by Pepe Sosa, Mango Merchant and Kyle Henderson 1.

Not to be outdone, Connecticut had exactly four entries that thought the Huskies could get this far:  JC Carralero 1, Steffan Alexander, JC Carralero 2 and Alex Sotelo.

The Sosa and Carralero brackets just picked their favorite teams (although they likely actually thought their favorite teams had enough talent to advance this far), so the picks of the day go to Mango Merchant, Kyle Henderson 1, Steffan Alexander and Alex Sotelo.

I do have to give some - but not much (and not pool related) - credit to Adam Jorgensen, who in December declared at lunch that the Big 10 would have 3 Final Four teams.  They didn't, but they did come awfully close.  Of course, Adam was referring at the time to Indiana and two out of Wisconsin, Michigan and Michigan State - so he wasn't that close.

Three of the four remaining teams are selected as potential champions, with nobody having Kentucky winning it all.  I will try, if I have time, to send out the final calculations of the final standings on the 8 different outcomes of the Final Four later in the week, so everybody will be 100% clear on where they stand.

For now, Cesar Gonzalez still leads, but the pack is charging up on him!

On to the standings:

1. Cesar Gonzalez – 111 Florida/Arizona
2. Barkley Sosa – 108  Florida/Kentucky
3. Jason Spuhler – 106  Florida/Louisville
4. Karen Katz – 101  Florida/Louisville
5. Jane Reynolds – 100  Iowa State/Wichita State
6. Brent Bellinger – 99  Michigan State/Louisville
Robert Tanen – 99  Louisville/Michigan State
8. Pepe Sosa – 98  Michigan State/Kentucky
9. J.C. Carralero 1 – 97  Connecticut/Louisville
10. Steffan Alexander – 96  Florida/Arizona
11. Alvaro Gonzalez – 96 Arizona/Florida
Ava Manon Gonzalez – 96 Florida/Arizona
13. Jacey Fowler I – 95  Michigan State/Louisville
Michael Litsey – 95  Florida/Louisville
15. Meredith Tanen – 94  Wichita State/Florida
16. Cheryl Spuhler – 93 Florida/Wisconsin
17. Adam Jorgensen – 92  Michigan State/Duke
Mango Merchant – 92  Michigan State/Baylor
19. Colleen Hamilton 1 – 91  Florida/Wichita State
Marc Rodney – 91  Florida/Louisville
21. Kim Bancsi I – 90  Michigan State/Louisville
22. Erin Devlin – 89  Florida/Arizona
Abigail Sosa – 89  Michigan State/Wichita State
24. Debbie Igdaloff Nieman – 88  Florida/Wisconsin
Train Zimmerman – 88  Arizona/Michigan State
26. Willa Fearrington 2 – 86  Florida/Louisville
Carolyn Fowler – 86  Florida/Louisville
Carolyn Fowler & Jane Reynolds – 86  Wichita State/Michigan State
29. Kyle Henderson 1 – 85  Arizona/North Carolina
Greg Kummerlan – 85  Florida/Arizona
31. Trouble Kroesen – 84  Wichita State/Florida
32. Megan Kossove – 83  Florida/Louisville
Anthony LaPira – 83  Arizona/Michigan State
        Ashley Poer 1 – 83  Michigan State/Louisville
35. Albert Harper III – 82  Michigan State/Louisville
Melissa Lazaerchick – 82  Florida/Michigan
37. Kyle Henderson 2 – 81 Louisville/Michigan State
Rich Samuels – 81  Villanova/Duke
39. Jacey Fowler II – 80  Florida/Michigan
        Hershey Zdrowak – 80  Kansas/Arizona
Keith Zdrowak – 80  Florida/Michigan
42. Silas Nichols – 79  Michigan State/Duke
Hannah Sosa – 79  Florida/Wisconsin
44. J.C. Carralero 2 – 78  Louisville/Kansas
Allison Parker I – 78  Michigan State/Louisville
Jonathan Wasserman I – 78  Florida/Arizona
47. Ashley Poer 2 – 77  Wichita State/Florida
George Walks 1 – 77  Arizona/Florida
Katie Zdrowak – 77  Louisville/Florida
50. Matt Hopps – 76  Florida/Arizona
51. Kim  Bancsi 2 – 75  Michigan State/Arizona
         Stacia Wilkaitis – 75  Florida/Wisconsin
Michael Williams 3 – 75  Arizona/Virginia
54. Jack Henderson – 74  Florida/Wisconsin
Kyle Henderson 3 – 74  Florida/Louisville
Philip Kroesen – 74  Wichita State/Florida
Antonio Marinucci – 74  Florida/Louisville
Allison Parker 2 – 74  Virginia/Duke
Jonathan Wasserman 2 – 74  Michigan State/Duke
60. Willa Fearrington 1 – 73  Louisville/Florida
Martha Kroesen – 73  Villanova/Michigan
62. Sam Lozier – 72  Wisconsin/Kansas
Matt Nemo Nieman – 72  Arizona/Florida
64. Kingfish Parham – 69  Florida/Duke
65. Sean McInerney 2 – 68  Michigan State/Louisville
Michael Williams 2 – 68  Arizona/UCLA
67. Bridget Talley –67  Florida/Arizona
Ryan Whitten – 67  Arizona/Villanova
69. Hilary Kroesen – 66  Arizona/Kansas
Mac Kroesen – 66  Virginia/Arizona
Katie Butler Litsey – 66  Florida/Creighton
72. Eric Inge – 65  Syracuse/Arizona
Ty Leatherman – 65  Duke/Florida
Alex Sotelo – 65  Louisville/Kansas
75. Griffey Parker – 64  Michigan State/Wichita State
76. Arlene Hopps – 63  Massachusetts/Syracuse
George Walks 3 – 63  Florida/Duke
78. Bill Lazarchick – 62 Florida/Louisville
Colin White – 62  Virginia/Wisconsin
        Day Yi – 62  Florida/Wisconsin
81. Sean McInerney 1 – 61 Florida/Louisville
Sasha Moon –  61 Michigan State/Arizona
Justin Yung – 61  Duke/Virginia
84. Colleen Hamilton 2 – 60  Wichita State/Florida
George Walks 5 – 60  Kansas/Duke
86. Hilary Grace – 59  Louisville/Iowa State
87. Amy Zdrowak – 58  Virginia/Creighton
Joshua Zdrowak – 58  Michigan State/Arizona
89. Chris Kroesen – 57  Louisville/Virginia
Michael Williams 1 – 57  Florida/Arizona
91. J.C. Carralero 3 – 54  Kansas/Louisville
Tanya Fresneda – 54  Florida/Michigan
Christina Pagdilao – 54  Duke/Virginia
94. George Walks 4 – 52 Florida/Michigan
95. Kristen Bolton – 51  Duke/Florida
96. George Walks 2 – 48  Virginia/Creighton
97. Steven Usma – 39  Duke/Villanova