NCAA TOURNAMENT POOL

NCAA TOURNAMENT POOL STANDINGS

Round 2 Day 2 

With apologies to Billy Joel, Say goodbye to Hollywood; say goodbye to Krzyzewski!!!! Down goes Duke, and Kentucky, Oregon, and North Carolina narrowly avoided defeat as well.  No real buzzer beaters, and no real Cinderellas, but finally some exciting games to whet our thirst for quality basketball.  Updating our champions remaining, we have people that have chosen 10 different teams of the Sweet Sixteen, so lots more excitement to go.  Our champions: Arizona, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky, Miami, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Oregon, UCLA, Villanova, Wisconsin.  This list will remain the same throughout all of the updates, but I will remove the “bold” from teams as they lose.  Joshua and Katie Zdrowak is the highest placing entry that lost Duke.

Our leader remains the same, as Adam Jorgensen 2 correctly selected 7 of yesterday's 8 games; including the bonus points for Michigan over Louisville.  Also selecting Michigan was Christian Searcy, who vaults into second place.  Jennifer Armstrong is a solid third.  regains the lead, helped along by picking the Wisconsin upset of Villanova.  Yesterday's leader, Jonathan Wasserman, falls to third.

Speaking of picking Michigan, they are now undefeated (6-0) since the team survived a plane crash!  YES YOU READ ME CORRECTLY - THEY SURVIVED A PLANE CRASH!!!  I guess there is nothing like a team-wide near death experience to have the team focus on just playing basketball and having fun. The fact that this selection kept Adam Jorgensen 2 in first, and helped Christian Searcy, you would think that would be enough to earn them the Pick of they Day; and you would be incorrect.  Twenty-Five participants selected Michigan over Louisville.  Only one person selected South Carolina over Duke; Phil Doherty 3, earning him the Pick of the Day and 5 bonus points.  Runner-up is Eric Sain, who selected Duke to win, but for his entire bracket, spelled the team name as "Dook".  (Sorry Ty Leatherman).

The South bracket is the toughest remaining, as all top 4 seeds advanced; whereas the wildest is the East bracket where the remaining seeds total 22.  Many entrants have zero points remaining to earn out of that bracket.  If you have teams alive, that is a bonus for  you.

The mean point total from yesterday was 10 (Kansas, Oregon, North Carolina, UCLA, Kentucky), so if you scored more than that, you advanced; likewise if you scored less than that you fell in the standings.

Let us also welcome to our long-time player Karen Katz into the pool.  Part of the reason for waiting until now to post the standings was to see if her entry was in the mail - and it was.  Welcome!!!

As always, please review the standings and double check my math, as I may have missed something, missed an upset, or just simply miscalculated.  I try to be accurate, but sometimes I do mess up.  I will listen and change things as necessary.  If you point out a potential mistake, I will not take offense, but I will go re-score your entire bracket to make sure everything is accurate.

I will post more updates during the week to include the final picks of our entrants so you can start to gauge where you stand among the players that have selected your champion.

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Good luck to everyone, and happy game watching.  Now, on to the standings.

1.  Adam Jorgensen 2 - 89

2.  Christian Searcy - 77

3. Jennifer Armstrong - 76

4.   Steven Usma 3 - 74

5.  Thomas Bean 1 - 71
     Carolyn Fowler - 71
     Joshua and Katie Zdrowak - 71

8.  Greg Kummerlen - 70
      David Peterson - 70

10.  Adam Jorgenson 1 - 69
      George Walks 5 - 69
       Jonathan Wasserman - 69

13.  Jim Coleman - 68
       Matt Nieman - 68

15.  Katie Kollmeyer - 67

16.  Silas Nichols - 66

      Pepe Sosa - 66

      Measha Williams 3 - 66

19.  Alex King - 65

       Mac Kroesen - 65
       Vic LaPira - 65
        Rich Samuels 1 - 65

        Rich Samuels 2 - 65

        Day Yi 1 - 65

25.  Debbie Searcy - 64

26.  Phil Doherty 2 - 63

       Colleen Hamilton - 63

       Eric Sain - 63

       Steven Usma 2 - 63

       Measha Williams 5 - 63

 31.  Jeff Plamondon - 62

         Measha Williams 2 - 62

33.  Eric Inge - 61

       Karen Katz - 61

       Anthony LaPira - 61

       Roxy Sheehan - 61
       Steven Usma 1 - 61

       Biscuit Zdrowak - 61

39.  Measha Williams 4 - 60

       Amy Zdrowak - 60

41.  Steffan Alexander - 61

       Dan Barsky - 61

43.  Debbie Igdaloff Nieman - 59

       Emily Lawson 3 - 59

       Kyle Sheehan - 59

       Jason Spuhler - 59

       Hershey Zdrowak - 59

       Katie Zdrowak - 59

49.  Matt Hopps - 58

50.  Phil Doherty 4 - 57

       Samantha Sheehan - 57

52.  Kent Armstrong - 56

       Thomas Bean 2 - 56

       Jacey Fowler 1 - 56

       Eddy P - 56

       Kulwadee Yung - 56

       Joshua Zdrowak - 56

58.  Phil Doherty 1 - 55

       Koma Gandy Fischbein - 55

       Allison Parker - 55

       Hannah Sosa - 55

       George Walks 2 - 55

63.  Thomas Bean 3 - 54

64.  Chris Kroesen - 53

       Sasha Moon - 53

       A.J. Rippin - 53

       Day Yi 2 - 53

68.  Paul Cummings - 52

       Jane Reynolds - 52

       Cheryl Spuhler - 52

71.  Jessica Ervin-Hang - 51

       Arlene Amo Hopps - 51

       Martha Kroesen - 51
       Ty Leatherman 1 - 51

       Ty Leatherman 2 - 51

       Max Macon 1 - 51

       Jason Murray - 51

       Ashley Poer - 51

       Justin Yung - 51

80.  Phil Doherty 3 - 50

        Traci Sheehan - 50

        Jeremy Spuhler - 50

83.  Carolyn Fowler and Jane Reynolds - 49

       Max Macon 2 - 49

       George Walks 1 - 49

       Wes Wiggins - 49

87.  Brian Badger Spatchek - 48

       Albert Harper III - 48
       Jessica Koch - 48

       Abigail Sosa - 48

91.  Thomas Bean 4 - 47

       Brent Bellinger - 47

       Emily Lawson 1 - 47
       Glen Merchant (with Mango and Duncan) - 47

       Measha Williams 1 - 47

96.  George Walks 4 - 46

97.  Jamie Foreman - 44
       Jacey Fowler II - 44

99.  Alvaro Gonzalez - 43

100.  Colleen Hamilton 2 - 30

101.  Barkley Sosa - 41

         John Wiederhold - 41

103.  Kingfish Parham - 40
         George Walks 3 - 40

105.  Keith Zdrowak - 39

106.  Luke LaPira - 38
         Colonel Kareem Montague - 38

108.  Emily Lawson 2 - 36

109.  Philip Kroesen - 34