NCAA Tournament Pool Round 2 Day 2 Standings

Ladies and Gentlemen:

So we now know the entirety of the Sweet Sixteen, and we have lost more champions with Michigan State’s victory over Virginia and Wichita State’s defeat of Kansas.

Particularly hurt by the loss of Virginia is Justin Yung of Raleigh, NC, and Mac Kroesen of West Palm Beach, FL, who are the highest ranked brackets with Virginia as a champion, and nobody even remotely high had Kansas.

As a reminder, the champions selected this year are:  Arizona, Duke, Iowa State, Kansas, Kentucky, Notre Dame, SMU, Villanova, Virginia, Wisconsin.  As usual, bold teams remain in the tournament.

I would like to welcome Paul John Reichert IV, Allison Parker and Griffey Parker into the pool.  For some reason I never initially printed out Paul’s brackets, but when double checking all of the entrants I saw his timely sent e-mail.  Allison and Griffey Parker’s entries showed up in the mail, appropriately time stamped as being completed prior to the start of the tournament.  Paul and Griffey are doing very well to this point as they are tied for 5^th Place, and a second Paul entry is tied for 7^th.

Kingfish Rod Parham of Atlanta, GA maintains his lead with the help of going 8-0 on Sunday.  The only thing that kept him from maximum points is he had Michigan State defeating Belmont, not Virginia, and thus did not earn the 5 bonus points for that game.  Several entries did earn both bonuses and rocketed up the standings, most notably George Walks 1 of West Palm Beach, FL, who is now tied for first.  Anthony LaPira of Demarest, NJ, Day Yi of New York, NY, Brent Bellinger of Duluth, MN, Cory Mauro of West Palm Beach, FL Carolyn Fowler of West Palm Beach, FL and Steffan Alexander of Portland, OR all earned 10 bonus points for selecting Wichita State and Michingan State.  They, however, did not earn the picks of the day as three entries won their guaranteed bonuses in the second round.  This is even more impressive given the fact that there is no guaranty their preferred second round matchup will occur, as one of the teams could be beaten in the first round.  That being said, Cheryl Spuhler of Acworth, GA, Hershey Zdrowak of Orlando, FL and Brian Spatchek of West Palm Beach, FL won their guaranteed upset picks, Cheryl and Hershey for Wichita State and Brian for Michigan State.

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The Sweet Sixteen commences Thursday, so relax until then.  I will have at least one more update before then, showing how many of the Elite 8 and Final 4s each entry has left, along with identifying Champions.

As always, please double check your math as I may have missed something.  I corrected a few ballots from yesterday’s results, as yes, I even double-check myself.

Now, on to the standings.  Ties, for now, are listed alphabetically.

1.         Kingfish Rod Parham – 76

            George Walks 1 – 76

3.         Kim Bancsi Lumpkin 2 – 63

            Silas Nichols - 63

5.         Griffey Parker – 61

            Paul John Reichert IV 1 – 61

7.         Adam Jorgensen – 60

            Anthony LaPira - 60

            Paul John Reichert IV 2 – 60

10.       Carolyn Fowler/Jane Reynolds – 59

            Colleen Hamilton – 59

            Si Nichols 1 – 59

            Si Nichols 2 - 59

14.       Jacey Fowler 2 - 57

15.       Sasha Moon – 55

            Steven Usma 4 - 55

            George Walks 5 – 55

            Day Yi – 55

19.       Jacey Fowler I – 54

            Cory Mauro - 54

21.       Carolyn Fowler – 53

            Kyle Henderson 2 – 53

            Arlene Hopps – 53

            Brian Spatchek - 53

            Cheryl Spuhler – 53

26.       Ashley Poer 1 – 52

27.       Katie Butler Litsey - 51

            Ashley Poer 2 - 51

            Chad Upson – 51

            Katie Zdrowak - 51

31.       Debbie Nieman – 50

            Rich Samuels 1 – 50

            Rich Samuels 2 - 50

            George Walks 2 – 50

            Jonathan Wasserman - 50

            Justin Yung - 50

37.       Brent Bellinger – 49

            Alvaro Gonzalez – 49

            Eric Inge – 49

            Greg Kummerlen - 49

            Traci Lynn Sheehan and Kyle Sheehan - 49

            Hershey Zdrowak - 49

43        Steffan Alexander - 48

             Jed Dorsey - 48

            Albert Harper III – 48

            Jessica Koch – 48

47.       Karen Katz – 47

            Kareem Montague – 47

            Jason Schultz - 47

            George Walks 3 - 47

51.       Serena Davila - 46

            Mac Kroesen – 46

            Trenton May - 46

            Allison Parker – 46

55.       Kyle Henderson 1 – 45

            Michael Litsey - 45

            Kim Bancsi Lumpkin 1 - 45

            Noel Martinez - 45

            Matt Nieman - 45

            Jane Reynolds – 45

            Rich Samuels 3 – 45

            Stacia Wilkaitis 1 – 45

63.       Matt Hopps – 44

            Martha Kroesen – 44

            Steven Usma 2 - 44

            Steven Usma 3 - 44

            Amy Zdrowak – 44

68.       Alex King - 42

            Sam Lozier - 42

            Jen Mahoney - 42

            Steven Usma 1 - 42

72.       George Walks 4 – 40

            Stacia Wilkaitis 2 – 40

74.       Koma Gandy - 39

            Ty Leatherman – 39

            Abigail Sosa – 39

            Hannah Sosa – 39

            Jason Spuhler – 39

            Joshua Zdrowak - 39

80.       Barkley Sosa - 38

            Pepe Sosa – 38

82.       Vic LaPira – 37

83.       Erin Devlin - 33

            Keith Zdrowak – 33

85.       Chris Kroesen – 32

86.       Braeden Helland – 31