To put into perspective what type of unexpected and amazing run this was for the Huskies \u2013 for the first time in the Lunatic Pool history, no one predicted the champion.\u00a0\u00a0 To add to it, no one was willing to take the Huskies in the Second Chance Pool either.<\/p>\n
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And now, the part you all have been waiting for – congratulations to our 2014 Stomp the Lunatic champion \u2013 Chris Franklin.\u00a0 Chris managed to play an unusual pool type of defense by taking the lead going into the Final 4, not score a single point in the last 3 games, and yet manage to hang on to the victory.<\/p>\n
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Our Upset Pool saw a similar feat \u2013 as Michelle Horgan\u2019s 279 points hung on to win.\u00a0 Her gutsy pick of taking the Dayton Flyers to make it to the Elite 8 helped gain Michelle enough upset points to coast to victory.<\/p>\n
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Then, there was the only part of the pool that was still up for grabs tonight \u2013 the Second Chance Pool.\u00a0 Thanks to the Huskies victory, Will Caldwell hung on to the victory with 640 points.<\/p>\n
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Here are the full set of winners:<\/p>\n
\u200b<\/span><\/strong>Standard Poo<\/span><\/strong>l<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chris Franklin \u2013 840<\/p>\n 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kyle Kelly, Chuck Brugh, and Amy Lancette \u2013 830<\/p>\n 5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Strange \u2013 820<\/p>\n 6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rob Bradley \u2013 810<\/p>\n 7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James Franklin \u2013 800<\/p>\n 8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Emily Vittum \u2013 790<\/p>\n 9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robert Shipp and Jerry Caldwell \u2013 780<\/p>\n LAST) Barbara Hodgson \u2013 210 (you should not have challenged Chris!!!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u200b<\/span><\/strong>Upset Pool<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Michelle Horgan \u2013 279<\/p>\n 2) Sarah Manley \u2013 265<\/p>\n 3) Clay Holloway \u2013 259<\/p>\n 4) Chuck Brugh \u2013 258<\/p>\n 5) Christy Lindvall \u2013 255<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u200b<\/span><\/strong>Second Chance Pool<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Will Caldwell – 640<\/p>\n 2) Edward Zhang – 600<\/p>\n 3) Chauncey, Jenn Carter, and Tonya Cole – 520<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Lunatic is embarrassed to mention that if leveraging the tie-breaker, 130 entries stomped the Lunatic \u2013 another thorough stomping!!!!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 Well done by everyone in the pool in putting the Lunatic in his proper place!!!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thanks to all of you for making this such a fun pool – hope that everyone enjoyed the games!!!!\u00a0\u00a0 Congratulations again to all our winners and of course, Connecticut Huskies – the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To put into perspective what type of unexpected and amazing run this was for the Huskies \u2013 for the first time in the Lunatic Pool history, no one predicted the champion.\u00a0\u00a0 To add to it, no one was willing to take the Huskies in the Second Chance Pool either. And now, the part you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}