Monthly Archive: April 2015

K Equals W

The Duke Blue Devils held off the Wisconsin Badgers to earn Coach K his fifth National Championship. Duke’s victory also means that John Fiasco is the 2015 HoopsHysteria.net champion. John correctly predicted all four Final 4 teams, both National Championship teams and the National Champion en route to his comfortable victory. John also finished third. It’s the second year in a row that a person has placed multiple winning brackets. Congrats John!

And congrats to the others that won including Jeff Warren, Deanna Manning and Tim Dougherty who was our winner last year.

Rank	Team Name	Score	Winnings
1	john fiasco	157	$330	Duke (146)
2	Jeff Warren	146	$150	Duke (146)
3	john fiasco (2)	142	$100	Duke (144)
4	Deanna Manning	139	$50	Duke (137)
5	Tim Dougherty	139	$25	Duke (143)

The winners will receive an email with instructions on claiming their winnings.

Thanks to everyone for another fun tournament season. See you next year.

38-Oh!

Notre Dame gave the Wildcats (and Big Blue Nation) a scare. Wisconsin gave both a nightmare ending Kentucky’s bid at history. The Badgers will square off against Duke on Monday night for the National Championship after the Blue Devils made easy work of the Spartans.

Now for the important stuff. The scenarios for this pool.

If Wisconsin wins ..

Rank	Team Name	Best Score	Best Correct
1	KIMBERLY AMMON (4)	156	50	Wisconsin (132)
2	thomas e. kakaris (2)	152	48	Wisconsin (155)
3	Joe Lapensee (2)	138	42	Wisconsin (119)
4	Allison Corcoran (3)	134	47	Wisconsin (151)
5	Al Schulte	132	41	Wisconsin (139)

If Duke wins …

Rank	Team Name	Best Score	Best Correct
1	john fiasco	157	44	Duke (146)
2	Jeff Warren	146	43	Duke (146)
3	john fiasco (2)	142	43	Duke (144)
4 or 5	Deanna Manning	139	45	Duke (137)
4 or 5	Tim Dougherty	139	45	Duke (143)

The tie-breaker would only come into play should Duke win to settle 4th and 5th place. Good luck to all in the running … including my dad.

In the last mail I sent out the breakdown of National Champion but included the 15 disqualified entries. Here is the corrected totals.

School	Entries	%
Kentucky	76	57.1%
Wisconsin	14	10.5%
Duke	14	10.5%
Arizona	12	9.0%
Villanova	8	6.0%
Gonzaga	5	3.8%
N. Carolina	2	1.5%
Wichita St.	1	0.8%
Oklahoma	1	0.8%
Total	133	100.0%

Below is the payout structure.

1st – $330
2nd – $150
3rd – $100
4th – $50
5th – $25

Thanks for another fun tournament. Once again good luck to all.