The Leaders After Saturday's Games

Leading the way with 38 points is...

TD1

Don't worry that's a superficially high place for that entry, which will fall in future rounds.  TD1 has Pitt in the Final Four.  Dumb.

37 points
Devin1

36 points
Ben
Dylann
Healey
Tony

35 points
Johnson

34 points
Cantaloupe1

33 points
Joe
Matias
TD2
Wilson1

32 points
Ryan
TD3
Wilson2

30 points
Devin2
Regan
Oordt1
Serena

29 points
Hollah

28 points
Cantaloupe2
Cantaloupe3
The Champ
Steve A.

And winning the race for the Sombrero with 27 points...

Oordt2


Awards


The Rooting Against the Home Team Award goes to the Cantaloupe2 entry.  Our newest member of the Prod. Dev. team, Matt Cantele (a.k.a. Cantaloupe, a.k.a. NewMatt, a.k.a. Tiger, a.k.a. Baseball Mat, a.k.a...) turned in three brackets this year.  (Though, the second one, Cantaloupe2, was clearly written in a different, frilly, feminine hand.  Hmmm...)  One experienced at the art of bracket prediction knows full well that hedging is often a great strategy to maximize the chances to perform well.  In this case, having the only entry that picked Temple over the hometown Aztecs didn't do him any favors.  This bracket also went against BYU and Arizona.  Why so angry at your home region?

The 2009/2010 Kansas Jayhawks Memorial Bracket Buster Award goes to the Pittsburgh University Panthers.  Especially embarrassing for the Panthers is not only having arguably the easiest path to the Final Four of all the #1 seeds, but also the way they finished their game against the Bulldog Butlers.  First, a shot clock violation that set up Butler's go ahead layup, then missing the second free throw that would have put them back ahead after Butler stupidly fouled the inbound play, then finally handing the game back to Butler by fouling on the missed free throw.  Well executed.  (Not criticizing the refs.  Those are both fouls that have to be called.)  Crossing Pitt off of every bracket's Southeast Regional Semifinal line, not too mention many lines after that on more than a few brackets, ran my pen out of ink.  It was pulled from a fresh box of Sanford Uni-ball (who says the double entendres have to end now that Morehead St. is out) Vision Exact micro point, metal tip red ink pens at the outset of this years bracket contest, and thanks to Pitt it has moved on to its place of eternal rest.  Adieu my writing utensil of choice.  You will be mourned.  (Seriously, Sanford, that is a comically small ink reservoir in those pens.  I don't care how smoothly it writes.)  Honorable Mention (tie): Georgetown and Michigan St.

Light posting the rest of the day due to what is likely to be endless trips to Home Depot for building supplies today.  There will be a score update tonight.  Enjoy the games.