Congratulations to the Baylor Bears, who completely dominated the previously undefeated Gonzaga Bulldogs. They played amazing defense and their guards scored at will. They jumped out to a 9-0 lead to start the game, and it never really got closer than that, as the Bears won the 2021 National Championship with a 86-70 victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Congratulations also to our 2021 Stomp the Lunatic Champion – John Greene. His correct prediction of Baylor beating Gonzaga gave him a 60 point victory over John Greene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Upset Pool. Gregg Farber managed to jump out to a lead thanks to predicting UCLA to the Final 4, and held off Joe Chapman by 3 points as Joe needed Gonzaga to win to pass Gregg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Second Chance Pool, Sarah Ahles and Chris Kelly tied for first place in the second chance pool by predicting that Baylor would beat Gonzaga. Based on the tie-breaker (Sarah missed the total score by only 3, while Chris missed by 26), Sarah is the second chance pool champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a list of all our prize winners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As for the Lunatic, he was thoroughly stomped this year. He was sadly sitting in a tie for 166th place – his picks did about as well as the Big 10 did this year. But despite the stomping, I am sure that the Lunatic will be back again to try to prove his ability (or inability) to predict college basketball games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you to all of you for continuing to make this such a fun basketball pool and giving me a chance to rant about the sport that I love to watch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Congratulations once again to all our prize winners, and congratulations to the Baylor Bears – the 2021 NCAA Champions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to the Baylor Bears, who completely dominated the previously undefeated Gonzaga Bulldogs. They played amazing defense and their guards scored at will. They jumped out to a 9-0 lead to start the game, and it never really got closer than that, as the Bears won the 2021 National Championship with a 86-70 victory. Congratulations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","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=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}STANDARD POOL<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 1)<\/td> John Greene<\/td> 1210<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 2)<\/td> Kelly Woods<\/td> 1150<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 3)<\/td> Karl Knox<\/td> 1110<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 4)<\/td> Andrea Zimmerman<\/td> 1100<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 5th Tie)<\/td> Lowell Isaacs<\/td> 1090<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 5th Tie)<\/td> Kelly Woods<\/td> 1090<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 7th Tie)<\/td> Cooper Bradley<\/td> 1070<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 7th Tie)<\/td> Christie Olenic<\/td> 1070<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 7th Tie)<\/td> Josh Glass<\/td> 1070<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 10)<\/td> Martin Poteralski<\/td> 1060<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> LAST)<\/td> Kyle Kelly<\/td> 170<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> UPSET POOL<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 1)<\/td> Gregg Farber<\/td> 269<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 2)<\/td> Joe Chapman<\/td> 266<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 3)<\/td> Ryan Callahan<\/td> 252<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 4)<\/td> Adam Davis<\/td> 240<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 5)<\/td> Hailey Peterson<\/td> 237<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 6)<\/td> Amy Hattaway<\/td> 236<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> SECOND CHANCE POOL<\/strong><\/td> <\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 1 TIE)<\/td> Sarah Ahles<\/td> 880<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 1 TIE)<\/td> Chris Kelly<\/td> 880<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 3 TIE)<\/td> Kevin Busby<\/td> 840<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 3 TIE)<\/td> Evan Goldstein<\/td> 840<\/td> <\/td><\/tr> 3 TIE)<\/td> Mark Horgan<\/td> 840<\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n