The sleep deprivation of the Lunatic has begun. I was nodding in and out of consciousness as #14 Colgate was trying to pull an amazing upset against Wisconsin. I remember at one point trying to finish the handicapping for Saturday’s games and having something written like “Gonzaga has been beating everyone by 10 points this season so I have to exppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp”. Then, I’d look up to see 4 minutes had passed in the game, and realized I had fell asleep mid-sentence with my hand on the laptop keyboard. Sadly, this happened multiple times.

Time apparently ran out on Colgate as well. I saw Johnny Davis lead Wisconsin on a 10-0 run to finally take the lead from Colgate with around 4-5 minutes left in the game (it was all a blur so I can’t be sure). The next thing I knew, John Cena and Nicole Byers were on the screen talking about the next contestants on Wipeout. I checked the ESPN app to see TCU finished their double digit victory against Seton Hall and Wisconsin won by 7 over Colgate – I assume it was exciting but to be honest, I have no clue.

I quickly added TCU and Wisconsin to the winners list so the standings would update and went to bed. I will probably do a quick check to make sure my dreaming didn’t put an incorrect winner in. But lets assume that I at least did that correctly last night.

Congratulations to Rob Nesbitt – he is tied with himself at the top of the pool as both of his brackets predicted 28 of 32 games correctly. Five others are just 10 points behind in a tie for third, as TJ Acuto, Nick Kindig, Jen Miller, Ted Hatcher, and Ann Hawkins all impressively got 27 games right. And surprisingly, the Crazed Lunatic’s insane picks and his son, Charlie both were in the 6 way tie for 8th – along with Red Shepley, Mike Mullins, John Franklin and Julia Dull.

As you can expect with the leaders doing well, they also lead the Upset pool – but here the ranking is based on what upsets they were correct on. There is a two way tie for the lead at 150 points between Ann Hawkins and Rob Nesbitt. Nick Kindig is just one point behind in 3rd place, while Red Shepley and Rob Nesbitt’s second bracket is tied for 4th at 144.

Only 7 people are beating the Lunatic!!!!!!! Now I am sure I am still asleep and dreaming!!!!! I will have to check again after Katie’s rugby game to make sure this is all true.

Good luck to everyone with their second round picks!!!!! And please, no one wake up the sleeping Lunatic – he is enjoying his dream at the moment. It is nice in this dream – a 15 seed is playing for a chance in the Sweet 16, he did well with his first round picks, and there have been plenty of exciting, close games to cheer about.