Stomp The Lunatic

I can only hope the games continue like this – well except for the Purdue game where we blow out our opponents.Morehead   Stknocks offLouisvilleto be our first Cinderella candidate,TempleandKentuckywin on their final drives to the basket. And then of course, everyone’s favorite Butler Bulldogs found a way to get an errant shot and put the second chance in at the buzzer.

One can only hope that this madness continues!

If my site is correct (and considering the quote debacle – that is debateable), we have a record 346 entries. Normally, there is one or two e-mails waiting for me when I get home about picks that the system rejected – but that will only add to the total!!!!

At this point, there is nothing left to do but cheer for your teams. Or if you are a pessimist like me who knows his picks will get destroyed anyways – just cheer for the upsets and pure chaos to happen. That will totally mess up my picks which are sadly conservative this year – but I don’t care. Go Clemson!!!! Go VCU!!!! GoRichmond!!!!! GoBelmont!!!!! Go – put your favorite underdog here – !!!!!!!!

It is what March is all about. Hopefully, another Cinderella will provide us a similar excitement thatButlerdid last year. At a minimum, I am sure we will have lots of great basketball!!!!

So good luck to all – enjoy the games – and I hope that everyone STOMPS THE LUNATIC!!!!!!!!!

There seems to be a glitch popping up for a couple people. When you are on the entry page and entering your picks names, please do not use a single quote in the name (like calling them Tom’s picks). This creates a SQL error when loading the entry to the database because it ends the query.

I have also had a unknown error happen that I believe is being caused when two people submit exactly at the same time – shouldn’t happen often – but when people are entering at the last minute, it is always possible.

Worst case, if you are having trouble getting your entry in – print your picks and send me an e-mail – I will try to help you when I am not in meetings.

Well, the Lunatic has entered his picks – as he thoroughly is enjoying the game. So glad that VCU didn’t deserve to be in the tournament – now that they are stomping on USC. Although then again, I guess you could make your arguments about if USC was the right pick either. To be honest, I hate all the media work to try to criticize teams that they don’t believe belong in the tourney – and the teams they thought were snubbed. Do I believe teams likeColoradoor Virginia Tech should have made it – sure! But to be fair – you should not be blaming any of the Last 4 teams in. For some reason, 16 of the 37 at large bids went to two conferences – the Big East and Big 10. I understand that many believe these were the best two conferences this year, but there is a large part of me that just doesn’t believe you should be allowed to get into the tournament if you can’t even finish in the top half of your conference.But I digress.

In the Lunatic’s Sane picks, he really took a lot of the chalk. I had to convince myself to change one of the Elite 8 games just so I didn’t put all 4 top seeds through. In the end, I haveKansasbeating Duke, withOhioStateandFloridajoining them in the Final 4.

In the Lunatic’s insane picks, I had to back my Boilers to the Final 4. Then, reality sank in and I decided it probably was too gutsy of a choice to pick them to win. So, I took Duke to repeat as champions by beatingPittsburgh. Then, the Tar Heels from UNC joined Purdue as the other Final 4 teams.

So, there you go! Now you know what you have to do – I apologize in advance to Jayhawk and Blue Devils fans, we know what effects exist from the Lunatic choosing you to win it all. By the way, last time I checked, we have over 232 entries – lets see if we break 300! Good luck to all in Stomping the Lunatic!!!!