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Sunday, April 02, 2006
Then there were two
Just like the tournament itself, the 2006 version of the Hoop Time Bracket Challenge has come down to two entries vying for all the marbles when Florida meets UCLA Monday night.

Current leader TThomas has 124 points, and will win the contest if Florida wins the title, as he has predicted from the start.

But despite TThomas' 29-point lead over Bill H., the guy currently in seventh place, Bill H. can still pull out a win in the Bracket Challenge is UCLA wins Monday. Bill H. currently has 95 points.

A Florida win in the final will be worth 33 points (32 plus one bonus point for a 3 beating a 2). UCLA will bring 32 points to anybody who has the Bruins.

Best we can tell from a quick scan of the 55 entries, they are the only two who have picked UCLA or Florida to win in the final. It is possible we missed someone else who has picked one of those two to win it all, but if so, it would be someone more than 32 points behind the leader TThomas, so it would not matter anyhow.

At the other end of the standings, Kevin has clinched last place with 44 points, 7 behind No. 54 johnny. To add a little insult to injury, Kevin, who had Duke, North Carolina, Kansas and Ohio State for his Final Four, is 26 points behind first round leader imaputz, a "novelty" entry that picked every lower seed all the way through, except for Bucknell, who imaputz had winning it all (beating the play-in winner in the title game). Imaputz didn't pick up a point after the second round, yet still managed to score 70, better than 26 folks who actually put a lot of thought into their brackets.

For Kevin, we offer this glimmer of hope: Last year, Brother of Hoop Time SteveC. was awarded the Kansas postseason media guide for finishing dead last. This season he looks to finish fourth and actually held the lead going into the Sunday of Elite Eight weekend, when his beloved Villanova Wildcats went south, a loss that was the ruin of many a poor boy in the house of the Hoop Time Bracket Challenge.
Published at 7:20 AM by Hoop Time.
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