Stomp The Lunatic

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  • Congratulations to the 2015 Stomp the Lunatic Champion!!!!!

    Congratulations to our 2015 Stomp the Lunatic Champion – Troy Cole.  Troy was able to correctly forecast that Duke would beat Wisconsin in the championship, which led him to a 30 point victory!

    Congratulations also go out to our Upset Pool Champion – Will Shipley, who ran away with a 28 point victory thanks to great picks like Michigan State to the Final Four, and UCLA and Wichita State to the Sweet 16.

    Finally, we had a three-way tie for the Second Chance Pool.  Troy Cole won a three way at 920 points with Brian Lawson and Jim Sell.   Troy’s tie-breaker of 136 was 4 points better than Brian and 6 points better than Jim to take the title.

    Troy has one more claim to fame this year.   In a strange, unprecedented event, Troy Cole is the only person this year to successfully Stomp the Lunatic.   We are all thankful to Troy – since I am pretty sure that the Lunatic actually winning the pool might be one of the signs of the apocalypse.

    Without further ado – here are the final winners!!!!!

    STANDARD POOL

    1) Troy Cole – 1320

    2) CRAZED LUNATIC – 1290

    3) Michael Swinson (FUN) – 1260

    4) Rohit Kapoor – 1250

    5th tie) Cooper Ams and Michael Yuen (FUN) – 1240

    7th) Kyle Kelly – 1210

    8th) Joey Ams – 1190

    9th) Ann Hawkins – 1180

    10th) Ryan Zotti – 1160

    11th) Nathan Standley – 1150

    12th tie) Pam Ciejek and Thomas Cook – 1140

    LAST) Tracy Vail-Rhodes – 430

    UPSET POOL

    1) Will Shipley – 297

    2) Ann Hawkins – 271

    3) Joey Ams – 263

    4) Red Shepley – 262

    5 tie) Chris Hamson (FUN) and CRAZED LUNATIC – 261

    SECOND CHANCE POOL

    1 tie) Troy Cole, Brian Lawton and Jim Sell – 920

     

    Congratulations again to Troy, Will, Brian and Jim for winning (or getting a share) of one of our pools!!!!!    And of course, congratulations again to the Duke Blue Devils – our 2015 NCAA Champions.

    Thanks again to everyone for making this such a fun tournament!!!!!  Hope that you enjoyed the games, the ranting, and the brackets!!!!    Hopefully, everyone will come back next March, when our crazy resident basketball expert will come out again to give you all a chance to STOMP THE LUNATIC!!!!

  • No more double digit seeds

    Cinderella’s clock struck midnight for our two highest remaining seeds. Both UCLA and North Carolina State played valiantly, but in the end Gonzaga had two much strength in the middle and Louisville also found the abiliity to slowly pull away.

    Just the evil tired night caps remaining – at least the games have been close.

  • Arizona survives and Kentucky destroys

    I am angry with the Kentucky Wildcats and/or the NCAA schedule makers.

    That is because the Wildcats complete annihilation of West Virginia combined with it being 11:30 at night managed to lull me to sleep before the second half of the close game between Arizona and Xavier got started again.

    I woke up an hour and a half later to find that Xavier stuck with Arizona and had a 4 point lead with 9 minuted to play, before Arizona clamped down on defense and held the Musketeers to only one more basket from the field to fight to a 68-60 victory.

    If we are going to have games on at midnight, lets at least keep them interesting – good job by Arizona and Xavier, bad job by Kentucky. I would include West Virginia in that but in my sleep deprived state, I can’t be sure that the Mountaineers showed up for the game.

    So both Wildcats advance to the Elite 8.

    Congrats to Charlie – who by continuing to favor chalk, got all 4 games on Thursday right and now has the outright lead. This has created the difficult parenting moment of trying to explain to an 8 year old that while he is doing great, he has not won anything yet. Considering that Tony Bisese, Will Sharpley and Dominic Shaw are just 10 points behind, and 31 others just one Sweet 16 win from tying him, the adults here realize how perilous that lead is.

    Donna Woodburn’s picks continue to lead the upset pool with a 16 point lead over Will Sharpley.

    And there are 54 entries in the Second Chance pool that went 4 for 4 – so we won’t even go there.

    The East and South Elite 8 spots are up for grabs tonight – lots of basketball still to be played

  • Notre Dame and Wisconsin advance

    We have our first two teams in the Elite 8!!!!! First, Notre Dame used a large run to start the game and one in the middle of the second half to run away from Wichita State.

    Then, Wisconsin got pushed to the limit by the sharp shooting from UNC – as the Tar Heels had a 7 point lead in the second half. But the Badgers kept chipping away – and then used an 11-3 run to take a 5 point lead into the last 5 minutes. And then the #1 seed in the West withstood Marcus Paige’s three pointers by hitting their last 9 free throws to ice the game.

    Congratulations to the Irish and Badgers for getting one step closer to the Final 4 in Indianapolis

  • No more perfect brackets

    After Butler held off Texas and UCLA stole the game from SMU with a goaltending call on a three point shot with 10 seconds left, not even Laura and Donna could stay perfect with their picks

    That adds the Bruins to the list of Cinderella double digit teams moving on. How awesome that so many of the games are going down to the wire. We have upsets, heroic shots, controversial calls – and we are only 6 games into the tournament!!!

  • Cinderella has another name

    It is what makes the tournament special – the stars that are made.

    Down 2 points with just 11 seconds, Georgia State rebounded a missed free throw and RJ Hunter puts a dagger into the Big 12 from really deep to give Georgia State an improbable 1 point victory.

    Congrats to Laura Carini and Donna Woodburn for having the foresight and the courage to pick both upsets!!!

  • And the Madness begins

    Of our 360 entries, 358 of us have already lost their chance for a perfect bracket – thanks to #14 UAB’s 60-59 upset of Iowa State.

    So welcome to our first Cinderella who has stormed the dance.

  • Tale of two halves

    So, maybe the question about adjustments wasn’t a bad one after all. That is because Ole Miss took advantage of the fast pace of game and scored 62 points in the second half to steal the game from the Cougars.

    It is kind of crazy – there are teams who are going to win games in the next three weeks without getting 62 points in the whole game. So was a little sad to watch BYU’s 17 point quickly disappear.

    Congratulations to Ole Miss – for once again reminding us why they call this March Madness

  • Site being closed down until next year

    Sadly, the spam bots are back trying to break into my Word Press account – as they have posted 6 comments that are meant to take you to another spam site.  And some bold person even tried to create a subscriber account so they could post directly.

    Since I don’t have the time to deal with that nonsense, it is easier for me now that I have deleted the bad comments to just lock down the site from allowing any comments or users.

    It is really a shame that I would have to go to those types of measures to keep the website clean.  But since I don’t post while the college basketball season is over, it is too much of a risk that I won’t notice these bad things happening and someone might accidentally click on a dangerous link.

    My apologies to all the fans of the site.

  • Congratulations to our 3rd round leaders

    The night games really had no drama – as Tennessee, UCLA, Baylor, Virginia and Arizona dominated their games.

    So the Sweet 16 is set. At this point, Bernard Benson is our standard pool leader at 500 points. He is closely followed by Doomps, Michelle Horgan, Justin Gorman and Philip Ventrella – who are 10 points behind. Then, trailing by only 20 points are Steve O’Neill, Chris Franklin, Laura Carini and Steve Glass.

    In the upset pool, Justin Gorman has taken control with 243 points. Justin is followed by Michelle Horgan (12 behind), Laura Carini (16 behind), Bernard Benson (23 behind) and Philip Ventrella (23 points).

    The Lunatic is still lurking in the large group tied for 36th. So, it is not a thorough stomping just yet – but we have a full two more weekends of games to fix that.

    Also, for those of you who have already given up on your bracket because you had Wichita State, Kansas, Villanova, Creighton, Syracuse or Duke winning it all, there is still hope. That is thanks to the Second Chance Pool!!!! Don’t forget to login and enter your second chance picks – not only is it a clean slate, it is free to enter!!!

    Good luck to everyone – hope your favorite team is still playing!