The Final Recap

We lost to this guy. Embarassing.

Thank God it’s over. The Tyler Hansbrough era in college basketball has finally ended. Four years of commentators and media hyping this guy as the greatest college basketball player ever to play to the game. You have to listen to it no more! Now we can laugh when he gets posterized in the Association by the Big Cactus Shaq-Fu.

I don’t want to hear a word from you Carolina supporters. The Villanova game was decided in the first 6 seconds. There was no need to even watch. North Carolina some how won the tip, gained control of the ball, made their way down the court, got the ball to Hansbrough, and Psycho T was fouled while in shooting motion all in 6 seconds. There’s 19:54 left in the first half and this clown is shooting 2 shots. It was obvious at that point how the game was going to play out. The NCAA wasn’t letting their best player in history leave without a championship. Good riddance.

Anyways, the standings will reflect all of those who had UNC winning. Ten of the top 11 had UNC. The only one that didn’t was EEB, who had Ville going all the way. Congrats for being the best non-UNC bracket this year.

While we may have defeated Cro rather easily this year, we do have reason to be ashamed. We lost to Nico T. This guy is a minor league mascot for crying out loud. He dresses up as a stupid bull. The only reason he picked UNC is because he lives there. I guarantee you that if he takes in a job in say, Kentucky, he’ll have them winning. It’s a fluke. He says living in North Carolina has taught him a lot about college bball. Big False. It taught him how to hype the ACC and Carolina schools. You got lucky this time. I’ll consider you a legit champion if you can win the pool again.

We had our first ever tiebreaker come into affect this year. Third place came down to Mike Smith and Jake Hoffman. Both had UNC winnings. Both have 138 points. The tiebreakers were even close, only separated by 4 points! Here’s how it broke down:

North Carolina 89
Michigan State 72
Total 161

Mike Smith 105
Jake Hoffman 109

Jake Hoffman has taken Mike Smith for third! This is great news! Nobody wanted to see Mike Smith in the money. And I recently found out that Jake is in elementary school, which makes this victory even sweeter. The pool was topped by a mascot, Boy Pierce, and a kindygartner. Amazing stuff.

Here are the final standings:

Nico T 154
Boy Pierce 140
Jake Hoffman 138
Mike Smith 138
Fritz Ablao 129
Chris Woody 128
Tom Moffa 123
President Obama 122
Brandon Gravett 119
Drew Smith 118
EEB 109
Michelle Folkerts 108
Phil Imbesi 104
Jenna Lawall 101
Chris Fusco 101
Big Mike 99
Shaun Askin 87
Uncle Kermit 87
Tony K 86
Sports Illustrated 85
Adam Tatz 84
Little Kermit 83
Mike Lambros 82
Dosh Whye 81
Mike Y 81
Pat Shields 80
Matt Atallian 80
CRO 79
The Dennis 61
Justin Romano 51

I want to thank everyone for making this tournament a tremendous success. We definitely can’t do it without you. Take the summer off, but can you better believe Cro will be studying up on his basketball in the Fall in an attempt to avoid going 0 for 7. We can only hope.

Enjoy baseball season. No Yankees. No Mets. No Red Sox.

Go Phils

Matt