NCAA Tournament Pool Round 1 Day 2

Ladies and Gentlemen:

So the first round is complete, and unfortunately day 2 was nowhere near as exciting as day 1.  Only 1 lower seeded team was victorious (more on that later), meaning chalk rules the day.  Let’s hope Round 2 starts off with a bang.

We have solved the nameless bracket, and I found 1 bracket which was more than timely.  My apologies to Karen Katz as her missing bracket was my doing, and not hers, and she even included her name and e-mail address, as per the rules.

Speaking of rules, I just have to include the body of an e-mail I received from Captain Kyle M. Meisner, an Operational Law Attorney with Army Special Operations Aviation Command – and I hope that she appreciates the shout-out and doesn’t put me on any type of “watch list”. 

“Please find my husband’s WINNING entry for the Tournament attached.  He apologizes for not sending it in himself and making his wife (me) do it for him, but those new-fangled printers and scanners are confusing to him, especially when he is on a crunch to, you know, get to the actual games.

In other news, you may owe me 15-20 minutes of my life back because Kareem forced me to listed to your ‘fantastic’ rules last night.  Yawn.”

You have a good one Kareem Montague, if she is willing to call both you and me out.  My wife and bracket participant Hannah Sosa, agrees with your wife’s entire sentiment.  Glad you at least thought the rules were as funny as I did typing them.

We lost no champions yesterday, so the champions in play remain the same.  As a reminder, he champions selected this year are:  Arizona, Duke, Iowa State, Kansas, Kentucky, Notre Dame, SMU, Villanova, Virginia, Wisconsin.  Bold teams remain in the tournament.

For yesterday's games we had only 2 unanimous selections, duke and Gonzaga.  Yes that means somebody picked Coastal Carolina over Wisconsin.  Tough break Braeden Helland.    We had 11 entries select Dayton, with three of the picks being guaranteed.  The pick of the day goes to Kim Bancsi Lumpkin 2 of West Palm Beach, Florida, Adam Jorgensen of Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Katie Butler Litsey of Redondon Beach, CA.  Katie correctly selected 15 of the 16 games from yesterday as well, with Davidson being her only downfall.  Davidson – by the way – was an extremely popular pick.

The antithesis of the pick of the day goes to two separate entries:  Jason Spuhler of Acworth, GA and Albert Harper III of Pahokee, Florida.  Jason Spuhler simply forgot to select a winner in the Wichita State – Indiana game and Albert Harper III selected Robert Morris.  Now Tournament Host, you may be thinking, how can that be if you said that Duke was a unanimous pick.  If you are thinking that, and chose to ask me, I would answer you by saying that Albert selected Robert Morris to win the San Diego State – St. John’s game.  Boy would that have been an upset!

Have fun watching the second round.  Remember today’s game count for two points each, plus bonuses.

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 - 45

2.  Carolyn Fowler/Jane Reynolds – 39

       Silas Nichols - 38

4.  Colleen Hamilton – 37

5.  Karen Katz – 37   

6.  Kim Bancsi Lumpkin 2 – 36

7.  Adam Jorgensen 35

     Katie Butler Litsey - 35

     George Walks 1 - 35

10.  Jacey Fowler 2 - 34

      Jessica Koch - 34

       Ashley Poer 1 – 34

       George Walks 2 - 34

14.  Chad Upson – 33

15.  Arlene Hopps - 32

      Si Nichols 1 - 32

      Si Nichols 2 - 32

     Steven Usma 4 - 32

     George Walks 5 - 32

      Jonathan Wasserman - 32

21.  Alvaro Gonzalez - 31

      Greg Kummerlen - 31

      Stacia Wilkaitis 1 - 31

24.  Albert Harper III - 30

       Kyle Henderson 2 - 30

       Anthony LaPira - 30

       Sasha Moon – 30

      Rich Samuels 1 – 30

      Kyle Henderson 1 – 30

30.  Eric Inge - 29

       Debbie Nieman – 29

       Jane Reynolds – 29

       Rich Samuels 2 - 29

       Cheryl Spuhler - 29

       Day Yi – 29

36.  Jacey Fowler I – 28

       Martha Kroesen - 28

       Cory Mauro - 28

       Ashley Poer 2 - 28

40.  Jed Dorsey - 27

       Michael Litsey - 27

      Justin Yung - 27

43.  Matt Hopps - 26

       Mac Kroesen - 26

        Traci & Kyle Sheehan - 26

      George Walks 4 - 26

       Katie Zdrowak - 26

48.  Carolyn Fowler – 25  

       Koma Gandy - 25

       Kim Bancsi Lumpkin 1 - 25

       Rich Samuels 3 – 25

       Hannah Sosa - 25

       Brian Spatchek - 25

       Steven Usma 2 -25

       Hershey Zdrowak - 25

56.  Alex King - 24

       Sam Lozier - 24

       Kareem Montague - 24

       Jason Schultz - 24

       Steven Usma 1 - 24

       Stacia Wilkaitis 2 - 24

62.  Serena Davila - 23

       Vic LaPira - 23

      Ty Leatherman - 23

       Jen Mahoney - 23

      Trenton May  23

       Jason Spuhler - 23

68.  Brent Bellinger - 22

       Chris Kroesen - 22

       Noel Martinez - 22

71.  Abigail Sosa - 21

       Steven Usma 3 - 21

       Amy Zdrowak – 21

      Keith Zdrowak – 21

75.  Steffan Alexander - 20

       Matt Nieman - 20

       George Walks 3 - 20

       Joshua Zdrowak - 20

79.  Erin Devlin - 19

       Braeden Helland – 19

81.  Barkley Sosa - 17

        Pepe Sosa - 17