It is a tradition here at the Stomp the Lunatic blog, including a sad year when I was so sleep-deprived that I accidentally copied an old version. But since it is already 9:15 pm on the Wednesday before the Sweet 16, it is time.

Here are the top 10 reasons to do the Second Chance Pool!!!!!

• 10) Your chances for a perfect bracket disappeared after the first game when Creighton upset Louisville, and so you want a second chance to achieve perfection.
• 9) After laughing at the media pundits who picked a Final 4 of all #1 seeds, you are starting to realize that might be a really good choice in a year where the chalk keeps winning
• 8) You were so excited about the SEC semi-finals that you decided the Final 4 should be a repeat of it – just with the teams switched up as Florida would have to first play Auburn and Tennessee would have to play Alabama.
• 7) After all the favorites winning in the first two rounds, you know that March will strike back this weekend with massive chaos leading to #6 Ole Miss, #10 Arkansas, #6 BYU and #4 Purdue upsetting the favorites to head to San Antonio.
• 6) Because no one does a Pop Culture Jeopardy Pool – and then you realize why after binging the entire series of 40 shows at once.
• 5) Realizing that 18 of the 20 last national champions have had blue in their logos, you are sure that Michigan, Florida, Duke and Kentucky are guaranteed to play each other for the title.
• 4) You are losing to your daughter who has picked teams based on schools her family members went to and what mascot she likes the best, and so you want a chance to redeem yourself.
• 3) Knowing that Ole Miss, Tennessee, Duke and Maryland are the only 4 schools with both their men’s and women’s teams making the Sweet 16, it seems like fate that you could pick those 4 schools to the Final Four.
• 2) It is another – and more importantly, it is the last chance in 2025 to Stomp the Lunatic!!!
• 1) It is absolutely FREE!!!!

That’s right – your entry fee already covers your Second Chance Pool entry – and so there is absolutely no good reason not to do the Second Chance Pool. You even have all Thursday afternoon to do them since the games don’t start until 7:09 pm EST. And with the Lunatic going with his heart of picking three Big 10 schools to join Duke in the Final Four, it should be incredibly easy this year to thoroughly stomp him.

Everyone deserves a second chance – but you still have to take that second chance to win! Good luck to everyone in Stomping the Lunatic (a second time)!