FINAL EDITION Tue April 05 2005

Roy's Boys Squeeze Fizzlin' Illini
Roy Williams
"This one's for you all you Kansas Jayhawk fans.  How d'ya like me now???"
TAYCOOL and Mr. Meadowlark Lemon share first prize, estimated at $725 each.  This was another fine showing by all Pool participants, 57 of you correctly picked UNC to win it all.  Unfortunately, you screwed up royally in the early rounds when the cash is really won.

Thanks to all for playing.  See you next year.

Following the script as written by our Pool partipants, UNC went on to slip by Illinois for the NCAA Men's Basketball Title.  For those Pool money contenders that had Illinois to win, they suffered the agony of yet another comeback by the Illini, only to see them fizzle at the end.  $2k worth of heartbreak.  And if we thought you deserved it in the first place, we might feel for you.  But you didn't, so we don't.  You're one of us now, one of the long list of people who have never sniffed the jock-strap of victory...

And hey, Dick Vitale.  Keep your picks to yourself next year.  Idiot.

Click on STANDINGS to see Current Pool results.

Tentative Estimated Payout Schedule:
 

Place Amount
1 $1000
2 $450
3 $300
4 $120
5 $70

Why is this tentative?  Because we still haven't received all the cash.  We know it's out there, we just don't know where it is.  We have accounted for $1870 and we're waiting on a few stragglers who passed their money to someone upstream of us.  In short, we only pay out what we receive, no more, no less.  Final accounting is now underway.

Final Outcome -- Estimated Payout Schedule.  Final Accounting is underway, payments to be made week of April 11th.  

[01] NC vs [01] Illinois, Winner = [01] NC
 Contestant Payout Points
1TAY COOL $725 191
Meadowlark Lemon $725 191
2Panther Pilsner $300 189
3Manage THIS! - Lecture by acclaimed American humorist/former CEO WorldCom Bernie Ebbers $95 187
DPH 3 $95 187
4Copyboy (out of the money) $0 185
5UNCUNCUNC! (out of the money) $0 183
Click HERE for a more complete list of rules and Pool curiosities if you haven't played before.
Click HERE to download an Excel spreadsheet with everyone's picks.

Here are some stats from the picks we made:

Most popular NCAA Champion Picks:
Champ # Sheets Picking
[01] NC 57
[01] Illinois 52
[01] Duke 22
[02] Wake Forest 14
[02] Oklahoma St 12
[02] UConn 6
[04] Syracuse 5
[03] Arizona 4
[04] Louisville 4
[02] Kentucky 3
[01] Washington 3
[05] Georgia Tech 3
[03] Kansas 2
[04] BC 2
[07] Cincinnati 1
[04] Florida 1
[05] Villanova 1
[03] Gonzaga 1

 

Most popular Final 2 Combinations:
Semi 1 Semi 2 # sheets picking
[01] NC [01] Illinois 43
[01] Duke [01] Illinois 20
[01] NC [02] Oklahoma St 18
[01] NC [02] Wake Forest 17
[01] Duke [02] Oklahoma St 10
[04] Syracuse [01] Illinois 8
[02] UConn [01] Illinois 6
[01] NC [03] Arizona 6
[01] NC [04] Louisville 5
[04] Syracuse [02] Wake Forest 5
[02] Kentucky [01] Illinois 4
[03] Kansas [01] Illinois 3
[04] Florida [01] Illinois 3
[01] Duke [02] Wake Forest 3
[03] Oklahoma [01] Illinois 2
[03] Kansas [02] Wake Forest 2
[01] Duke [04] Louisville 2
[01] Duke [04] BC 2
[02] UConn [04] Louisville 2
[01] NC [05] Georgia Tech 2
[01] Duke [01] Washington 2
[01] NC [01] Washington 2

 

Haven't Paid Yet???  You need to find a way to get $10 for each sheet to one of the following people:  Mikie D, Moon Man, Robbie H or The Godfather on or before NOON Thursday March 17th 2004 -- NO EXCEPTIONS.  If you don't expect to see any of these guys before then, you need to EXPRESS MAIL YOUR CHECK TO:

R MOONEY
101 North Shore Rd. 
Derry , NH 03038

IF YOU ARE WRITING A CHECK FOR MULTIPLE ENTRIES -- INCLUDE A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER WITH THE NAMES OF THE PICKS THAT GO WITH THE CHECK!

IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING ONE $10 CHECK FOR ONE PICK PUT THE NAME OF YOUR PICK IN THE MEMO OF THE CHECK.

If all else fails use your noggin and apply common sense.

Questions to us by email only please!   This is a very low budget operation.