I will have to send out emails on Monday – because I am exhausted. While I had a great day, it started super early so that I could golf and get back before the games today. And then of course, the UConn vs. Duke game was historically one of the best finishes I have seen in the tournament.

I started nodding off as I finished up my last blog piece, and so I will not risk sending a sleep-induced email tonight – it will give me an excuse to let everyone know that I have the scenarios up on the website (assuming I can get that done tomorrow night).

With UConn’s amazing comeback victory, we were left with 3 people who accomplished the amazing task of correctly predicting all 4 Final Four teams – congratulations to Bill Richter, Jim Carini and my son, Charlie Hodgson.

In a sad state of affairs, Duke’s loss will make it one of the worst stompings of the Lunatic in history, as he is currently sitting in a tie for 203rd place with no possible way to score any more points. But in an ironic twist of fate, that same loss and Arizona’s victory over the Lunatic’s Boilers has made it so that his son Charlie could be one of only 3 people to correctly pick all 4 Final Four teams. So, the Lunatic might not be able to pick teams well for himself, but he might have managed to teach his son so that Charlie could succeed where the Lunatic has failed.

At this very important time in the pool, here is how our leaderboard stands.

In the Standard Pool, congratulations go out to Bill Richter, who has taken the lead with 1030 points (and of course, all 4 correct Final Four teams). He is followed closely by Mark Walsh in 2nd place (1020 points), my son Charlie in 3rd place (1010 points), and Jim Carini in 4th place (960 points). Joe Chapman and Jimmy Lee are tied for 5th at 930 points, Ryan Zotti and Cinde Schumaker are tied for 7th with 920 points, and Marie Whittaker, Stacie Dooms and Debb Evans finish off the top 10 with a tie for 9th at 910 points.

In the Upset Pool, Mark Walsh leads with 267 points over Shirli Zelcer (262 pts for 2nd), Mat Reilly (260 points for 3rd), Mack Fournier (251 points for 4th) and Al Lester (245 points for 5th)

Finally, in our second chance pool, Sonny Mao has the lead at 600 points (as he got every game correctly except Texas over Purdue). Sonny is followed by a three-way tie between Drew Bradley, William E. Craft and Debbe Evans (all at 560 points).

I will try to get the scenarios pages out to everyone early this week (as well as send out some of the update emails). But for now, the Lunatic needs to fall asleep.

Congratulations to all our leaders in thoroughly Stomping the Lunatic!!!!