NCAA Tournament Pool - FINAL RESULTS

It was a hard-fought, close battle to the end, but after the Finals, we have crowned an almost wire-to-wire champion.  Congratulations to longtime participant Kingfish Rod Parham from Atlanta, Georgia – who it should be noted joined us for a portion of the 2007 Final Four festivities.  Finishing in second place was first time entrant Si Nichols.  For the first time ever, we had a tiebreaker for the money.   Congratulations to first time entrant Paul John Reichert IV from – at least he last I knew, Atlanta, Georgia.  Losing the tiebreaker for the money was George Walks 1, from West Palm Beach. To the winners, I am taking a break from basketball for a couple of days, and I will organize the pool money (I am still waiting on a couple of payments), and then contact you about sending you the winnings.  The final tally is $255 for first, $106.25 for second and $63.75 for third.

A hearty non-congratulations to Braeden Helland of Jacksonville, Florida for finishing in 86^th place.  He wins his money back!

The pick of the weekend goes to Team Sheehan, consisting of Traci and Kyle Sheehan of Jupiter, Florida, who correctly selected Duke over Wisconsin in the Final game.  They were the highest team to have selected both finalists and a Duke champion.  Rumor has it that this was truly a collaborative effort in that both Traci and Kyle would select who they wanted for each game, and if there was a difference, they selected Traci’s choice!

For those that still need to pay, PayPal can be sent to sosalaw@yahoo.com and for Google Wallet please use pepsosa21@gmail.com.

I apologize for the last standings, as it seems all entrants did not show on the website, but they did all show on the mobile version.  I am retyping this from scratch to try to avoid this problem.

Please check my math for any mistakes and let me know if you find a discrepancy, unless it does not affect the money – then don’t bother!

Thanks again for a great tournament.  I hope to see everyone next year.  I might be recalibrating the point system to make next year even more exciting, but don’t worry – we will still give bonus points for upsets!!!

NCAA TOURNAMENT POOL FINAL STADINGS

1.            Kingfish Rod Parham – 134

2.            Si Nichols 1 – 131

3.            Paul John Reichert IV 2 – 130 Wins via tiebreaker

                George Walks 1 – 130

5.            Adam Jorgenson – 128

6.            Paul John Reichert IV 1 – 123

7.            Silas Nichols – 121

8.            Debbie Nieman – 120

9.            Traci and Kyle Sheehan – 117

10.          Jacey Fowler II – 115

11.          Kim Bancsi Lumpkin 2 – 113

                Si Nichols 2 – 113

13.          Anthony LaPira – 110

                Steven Usma 2 – 110

15.          Joshua Zdrowak – 109

16.          Cory Mauro – 108

                Allison Parker – 108

18.          Greg Kummerlen  - 107

19.          Ty Leatherman – 105

                Day Yi – 105

21.          Carolyn Fowler and Jane Reynolds – 103

                Koma Gandy – 103

23.          Griffey Parker – 101

24.          Brent Bellinger – 99

                Brian Spatchek – 99

26.          Jacey Fowler I – 98

                George Walks 4 – 98

28.          Sasha Moon – 97

29.          Trenton May – 94

                Ashley Poer 1 – 94

                Stacia Wilkaitis 2 – 94

32.          Albert Harper III – 92

                Barkley Sosa – 92

                George Walks 2 – 92

35.          Colleen Hamilton – 91

                Kim Bancsi Lumpkin 1 – 91

                Noel Martinez – 91

38.          Steffan Alexander – 90

                Serena Davila – 90

                Jed Dorsey – 90

                Matt Hopps – 90

                Jonathan Wasserman – 90

                Amy Zdrowak – 90

44.          Hannah Sosa – 89

                Cheryl Spuhler – 89

46.          Alex King – 88

                Sam Lozier – 88

48.          Eric Inge – 87

                Karen Katz – 87

                Michael Litsey – 87

                Kareem Montague – 87

52.          Jessica Koch – 86

                Steven Usma 1 – 86

54.          Alvaro Gonzalez – 85

                Arlene Hopps – 85

                Matt Nieman – 85

57.          George Walks 3 – 83

58.          Rich Samuels 2 – 82

59.          Carolyn Fowler – 81

60.          Jen Mahoney - 80

61.          Ashley Poer 2 – 79

                Jason Schultz – 79

                Abigail Sosa – 79

                Steven Usma 4 – 79

65.          Mac Kroesen – 78

                Pepe Sosa – 78

67.          Kyle Henderson 2 – 77

                Stacia Wilkaitis 1 – 77

                Hershey Zdrowak – 77

70.          Steven Usma 3 – 76

71.          Erin Devlin – 75

                Katie Butler Litsey – 75

                Chad Upson – 75

                Katie Zdrowak – 75

75.          Rich Samuels 1 – 74

                Justin Yung – 74

77.          Vic LaPira – 73

                Jane Reynolds – 73

79.          George Walks 5 – 71

80.          Rich Samuels 3 – 69

                Keith Zdrowak – 69

82.          Martha Kroesen – 68

83.          Jason Spuhler – 67

84.          Kyle Henderson 1 – 65

85.          Chris Kroesen – 56

86.          Braeden Helland - 51