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 10:40 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 TCU beat Ohio State and so you want a second chance to achieve perfection.
- 9) You always wanted to pick teams by flipping a coin and figured that with 12 of the 16 teams being the top seeds, all the remaining games were probably 50/50 games to pick anyways.
- 8) You were so impressed that 6 Big 10 teams made the Sweet 16 that you decided to pick an all Big 10 Final Four in Indianapolis
- 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 #5 St. John’s, #9 Iowa, #11 Texas and #6 Tennessee upsetting the favorites to head to Indianapolis.
- 6) Because there are no pools on who will win the next 3 weeks of Jeopardy, and after watching an episode, you can’t get any of the questions correct – so you need an easier game to play.
- 5) Realizing that 19 of the 21 last national champions have had blue in their logos, you are sure that Duke, Illinois, Arizona and Michigan are guaranteed to play each other for the title.
- 4) You realize that your daughter is beating you by picking her favorite mascots so you figure if you can’t beat her, you should join her. Then you spend the next couple hours debating whether a Blue Devil or Red Storm would win in a mascot battle.
- 3) You did so badly in your original picks, and you heard that someone once won the Upset pool by picking teams by geography, so you put up a map of the United States, blindfold yourself, and throw a dart at the map so you can pick the schools closest to the city where your dart lands.
- 2) It is another – and more importantly, it is the last chance in 2026 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 7:10 pm EST. And with the Lunatic going with his 8th reason to pick only Big 10 teams in the Final Four, it should be incredibly easy this year to thoroughly stomp him.
In fact, here are the Lunatic’s entire Second Chance bracket:
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)!