My apologies – but I decided to wait until the morning and a few hours of sleep to ramble about the leaders.   Normally, I would do it immediately after the last game, but I went from flipping to the Florida / St. Bonaventure game to noticing that they had moved on to another television show – without remembering what happened (although Florida was comfortably ahead, so I figured the Gators had won – turns out, so did Michigan).

I did give our leader Laura her own post – going 16 for 16 is pretty amazing.   But she is not alone on the leaderboard.  Both Christy Lindvall and Craig Mize went 15-1 to be just 10 points behind in the Standard Pool.  And there are 14 other entries who are just 20 points behind because they went 14-2 on Thursday.

In the Upset pool, Laura obviously leads as well – when you get every game right, you get the max amount of points.  Christy is 2nd at 81 points just 6 behind, and Craig is 3rd at 74 points.  Rounding out the top 5 is Joe Chapman at 70 points and Stacy Dooms at 69 points.

The Lunatic’s sleep deprived picks are lurking in with the many people at 13-3.  However, I did lose a Sweet 16 team when Arizona got knocked out – as I picked the Wildcats to also beat Kentucky – based solely on my dislike for Calapari.   Although I will have to use one of my wife’s quotes from last night.  As Davidson was close and we were rooting for the upset (because how can you not root for the upset – well unless it is your school who is the favorite), she said, I am pretty sure I have Davidson in both my picks.   And when I said – wow, you picked Davidson to beat Kentucky, and she replied, “I’d rather lose than pick Kentucky.”   I’m not sure that the Lunatic will go that far, but it looks like at least for one game on Saturday, I might be in the same boat.  Unless of course Buffalo continues to play the way they did last night – go Bulls!!!!

Good luck to our leaders in keeping their picks so perfect.   And good luck to everyone in Stomping the Lunatic!!!!!!!!   Enjoy the games!!!!!