The last four days have been kind of a blur for the Lunatic.  Normally, I stay ahead of the Handicapping so it is not that bad, but when I fall behind, it gets tough to catch up.  Thank goodness for Sunday.

I was able to finally get a full night’s sleep last night, even with the Alabama game going to close to midnight.  Alabama kind of ran away with the second half, so I honestly drifted in and out of the game.

And I was able to then get a lot of the administrative work done while Xavier ran away from Pitt.  And managed to get most of it done before the 2nd half started of the exciting Kansas State / Kentucky game (Kentucky just went on a 9-0 run to take a 4 point lead).

At this point, I believe I have caught up the site with all payments that I have received.  So, if you know you paid and the site says differently, send me an email and I will look at what happened.  The Lunatic Collection Agency is not known for its excellent accounting services, so just give me a heads up.

A special thank you to long time pool supporter Jim Carini.  He noticed that in the standings files, I had mixed up the West and Midwest regions.  I think I have fixed that error on the site (although please let me know if there are any other issues).

The handicapping site has been updated with results.  I am surprisingly doing amazingly well.  I am down 6 imaginary dollars picking against the spreads (24-20 overall – so the vig is what has me down).  But I am crushing the totals – up 282 imaginary dollars (30-14).  Of course, I already lost 60 on the Xavier game, so maybe everything is coming back to normal.  I should learn never to lock any of the games.  But at least I don’t have 8 new lines of games to have to predict – it is nice to know that I will have 4 full days to make the next 8 picks.

I also did amazingly well on the bracketology before the start of the tournament.  I think I actually beat some of the press experts, which makes me happy.  I have more research to do on that – which might have to wait for a game that isn’t as exciting as the Kansas State / Kentucky game – Kentucky just had a huge dunk to take a 41-39 lead.

And of course, at 7:45 pm Purdue will be playing Florida Atlantic.  Oh wait.  Guess not everything is going well.  I keep hoping in my sleep-deprived state that it was just a dream that FDU won.  It had to be – right.  Still, enjoy the 2nd round games on a wonderful Sunday.