{"id":1257,"date":"2018-03-16T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T11:57:45","slug":"congratulations-to-all-our-first-day-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=1257","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to all our first day leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies &#8211; but I decided to wait until the morning and a few hours of sleep to ramble about the leaders.\u00a0 \u00a0Normally, I would do it immediately after the last game, but I went from flipping to the Florida \/ St. Bonaventure game to noticing that they had moved on to another television show &#8211; without remembering what happened (although Florida was comfortably ahead, so I figured the Gators had won &#8211; turns out, so did Michigan).<\/p>\n<p>I did give our leader Laura her own post &#8211; going 16 for 16 is pretty amazing.\u00a0 \u00a0But she is not alone on the leaderboard.\u00a0 Both Christy Lindvall and Craig Mize went 15-1 to be just 10 points behind in the Standard Pool.\u00a0 And there are 14 other entries who are just 20 points behind because they went 14-2 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In the Upset pool, Laura obviously leads as well &#8211; when you get every game right, you get the max amount of points.\u00a0 Christy is 2nd at 81 points just 6 behind, and Craig is 3rd at 74 points.\u00a0 Rounding out the top 5 is Joe Chapman at 70 points and Stacy Dooms at 69 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Lunatic&#8217;s sleep deprived picks are lurking in with the many people at 13-3.\u00a0 However, I did lose a Sweet 16 team when Arizona got knocked out &#8211; as I picked the Wildcats to also beat Kentucky &#8211; based solely on my dislike for Calapari.\u00a0 \u00a0Although I will have to use one of my wife&#8217;s quotes from last night.\u00a0 As Davidson was close and we were rooting for the upset (because how can you not root for the upset &#8211; well unless it is your school who is the favorite), she said, I am pretty sure I have Davidson in both my picks.\u00a0 \u00a0And when I said &#8211; wow, you picked Davidson to beat Kentucky, and she replied, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather lose than pick Kentucky.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure that the Lunatic will go that far, but it looks like at least for one game on Saturday, I might be in the same boat.\u00a0 Unless of course Buffalo continues to play the way they did last night &#8211; go Bulls!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to our leaders in keeping their picks so perfect.\u00a0 \u00a0And good luck to everyone in Stomping the Lunatic!!!!!!!!\u00a0 \u00a0Enjoy the games!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My apologies &#8211; but I decided to wait until the morning and a few hours of sleep to ramble about the leaders.\u00a0 \u00a0Normally, I would do it immediately after the last game, but I went from flipping to the Florida \/ St. Bonaventure game to noticing that they had moved on to another television show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}