Congratulations to William England – who managed to go 7 for 8 in the Elite 8 to take a 10 point lead at 750 points over Nathan Standley and Audra Lifson.  It is a crazy tight tournament at the moment, as David Chamowitz and Michael Swinson are tied for 4th at 730 points, Mike Wassmer, John Bachmann and John Johnson are tied for 6th at 720 points, and Robert Ahles, Sharon Thornton, Bill Carter, Jack White, Cinde Johnson are all tied at 9th with 700 points.   What might be even more interesting is that within our top 10, our leaders disagree with who will win – while Kansas is the most common champion picked, 6 of the 8 teams remaining are picked by one of these leaders as their champion (only Notre Dame and Syracuse aren’t represented).   There are 48 entries within 80 points (or one Elite 8 correct winner), so with so many different picks and so many people close, anything could still happen!!!!

In the Upset pool, John Bachmann has taken the lead with 271 points.  He is closely followed by Rick Flynn at 267 points (who correctly got Notre Dame to win tonight), Doug Crowe at 264 points, Kelli Shonts at 261 points, and Kyle Kelly at 260 points (who correctly got Syracuse to win tonight).    So, this has the potential to go down to the wire as well.

In our Second Chance Pool, Jim Wambach has a small lead with the incredible job of going 8 for 8 in the first round.   But he is followed by 14 people (Mark Walsh, Tom Giroir, Bill Kahn, Chris Kelly, Drew Bradley, Rich Napolitano, Andrea Zimmerman, Cheri Searles, Andrew Murphy, Audra Lifson, Peter Lifson, Adam Searles, Brian Lawton and Matt Garda) who got 7 of 8 correct and are just 40 behind.

Some pretty impressive picks by everyone!!!!!!   Good luck to all in the Elite 8!!!