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Welcome to the 2012 Stomp the Lunatic Contest! In an attempt to continue to provide the best NCAA tournament bracket experience, I have tried to upgrade the site. This year’s upgrade includes improvements to the blog, fixes (“hopefully”) to the entry form that caused issues for some people last year, and some fixes that will make my life easier in keeping the site up-to-date.
Please feel free to browse the site (I will be adding comments and links to old pages over the next few weeks), and come back when the Selection Committee announces the 68 teams to enter the contest and STOMP THE LUNATIC!!!!
Tom, Thank you so much. What another wonderful wonderful few weeks you have given us. I have learned, well, actually, relearned, a terribly important lesson. All models are wrong. And, while some models are useful, not all are. I managed to build one of the useless ones this year. Every approach I am thinking about how to do better keeps leading me to having to learn some subject matter content. Argh. I don’t understand the game, don’t watch, and don’t enjoy watching. Also, don’t play it. I think I maybe have taken the pure numerological aspect of this work about as far as it can go. Thank you for taking me the edge. Next year I’ll need to read your musings more seriously. Congratulations to the real, and the pool, winners. Thanks too to your family for letting you give all of us so much of your time.
Thanks for a great first march madness picking experience everyone!!! I want to let everyone know that if you want to win the upset pool next year it helps to do the following: 1. Pick winners by mascots. 2. Actually pick upsets!!!! – The people who finished right below me had teams like Ohio State and Kansas and Connecticut in the final games. I had Temple and Louisville – I like birds!!! I’ll leave you with my mom’s favorite math quote: ‘If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them’
And now the time we all have been waiting for. It seems the perfect ending to this year’s tournament. We have not one winner – we have two!
Not only did Patrick Booth and Rebecca Shipp tie with 1050 pts, but they also both appear to have the same tie-breaker of 142 pts. And since I did not plan like in past years for this crazy scenario, it seems as the only fair thing to do is declare co-champions.
In the upset pool, Logan Horgan hung on to win the Upset Pool with 273.
And congrats also go out to Joshua Lacks for winning the Second Chance Pool with 680.
Butler was looking to go down in history – but not in this way. The 53 points scored by the Huskies was the lowest I ever remember – thanks to the fact that Butler shooting just 18 percent from the field being the worst shooting performance in history. The Huskies had been winning games in the tournament with their stiffling defense and tonight was not any different. The Huskies had a most improbable March – winning 5 games in 5 days to win the Big East, and parlaying that success into 6 more victories. Congratulations to the Connecticut Huskies – the 2011 National Champions!!!
Kentucky put up a valiant fight, but in the end there were just too many missed 3 pointers by the Wildcats – and the Connecticut Huskies did just enough to hold on to make it to the championship game. Give the Huskies a lot of credit for building the big lead in the first half and then holding off the Wildcats charges. So it will be the Big East Tournament Champions against the Horizon Conference Champions!
The battle of Cinderellas is over with and sadly for Richmond, the magical run of the VCU Rams is over with. There just was no answer for Shelvin Mack, and everytime VCU came back, Butler would put in another dagger. And so for a second year in a row, the Horizon Conference Champion – the Butler Bulldogs – will get to play for the National Championship. Congratulations to Butler for such an amazing achievement – and thanks to VCU for reminding us all about what the NCAA tournament is all about. It has been such a memorable tournament – and Butler and VCU are two of the biggest reasons why.
Could it be a sign of things to come. Regardless – congratulations go out to the Wichita State Shockers for winning the NIT. After being considered one of the top mid-majors all season – no one complained when the Shockers didn’t make the NCAA Tournament despite a 14-4 record in the Missouri Valley. Apparently, their biggest crime was not winning enough big games – although their losses by 4 to Connecticut and 1 to VCU don’t look as bad in hind-sight.
Tonight, Wichita State upset Alabama to take the NIT – after also beating Nebraska, Virginia Tech, College of Charleston, and Washington State. Even if it is the NIT, that is a pretty solid group of teams – once again, as much as I don’t like it, maybe expansion wasn’t that crazy of an idea.
OK – to be fair, I guess I should congratulate Santa Clara for winning the CIT. However, there was not a single major conference school in that tournament – so it doesn’t seem fair to say – Look at the mid-majors win the CIT – since it was kind of guaranteed.
That being said if Creighton beats Oregon at home on Friday night, the mid-majors will be 3 for 3….
Anyways, hopefully it will be a sign of things to come – and eitherButleror VCU will continue to help the mid-majors claim the championships.
continued… Ferget it–where’s my oiji-board? (Tom, next year give me a character counter so I know when I’ve run off the end in my self-pity)
The Crazed Lunatic is a crazy college basketball fan, especially for his Purdue Boilermakers!!!! Boiler Up!!!!
Every March, his passion comes out to rant and rave about one of the best sporting events in the world, the NCAA Basketball Tournament. While many of you will Stomp the Lunatic with your picks in our fun bracket picking game, this will not diminish the Lunatic’s crazed attempt at blogging about the tournament that he loves. Whether it will be trying to predict who will be in the tournament during Championship Week or his insane attempt to handicap all 67 games against the Vegas spreads, you can count on the Lunatic’s sleep-deprived rantings throughout the month of March.
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