Round 4 Update:

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What a weekend!

  • Sister Jean catapults #11 seed Loyola (Chi) over Kansas State!
  • The Wolverines improbable win streak reaches 13 after handling Florida State.
  • Humble and Hungry Villanova reaches their second Final Four in 3 years.
  • Jayhawks defeated The Brotherhood to reach their first final four since 2012.

New What If Scenario feature will show you where you’ll finish in each of the 8 remaining scenarios.

It’s down to 7 contestants for Two NCAA Championship tickets!  Possible outcomes:

  • Kansas beats Loyola- Jon Edwards
  • Kansas beats Michigan- Jon Edwards
  • Michigan beats Villanova- Pam O’Shaughnessey
  • Michigan beats Kansas- Julie Wingreen
  • Loyola beats Villanova- Micah Chapman
  • Loyola beats Kansas- Elly Kutrieb
  • Villanova beats Michigan- Bryan Torres
  • Villanova beats Loyola- Anna Carr

With 528 points Micah Chapman is our leader with 3 games remaining. He has a 12.5% change to win it all.

  • Teagen Jeffers picked Loyola Chicago to the Final Four. Unfortunately that was his only correct Final Four pick.
  • Our current leaders in 1st and 2nd place are in 6th grade and 7th grade respectively.
  • The following 23 brackets selected 3 of the Final Four teams-
    • Jon Edwards, Mike VerWay, Bryan Torres, Julie Wingreen, Raeanne Macklin, Chris Bond, Anna Carr, Anil Khan, Kyle Goodwin, Chad Williams, Michael D. O'Shaughnessey, Micah Chapman, Elly Kutrieb, Caleb Hughes, Kenn Kurowski, Jim Keenan, Chris Cavaliere, Rob McDorman, Steve Derdowski, Dominic Dickerson, Ron Hill, Clarke Spain, and Amanda Goodwin
    • 71% of us picked Villanova to the Final Four.
    • 27% picked Michigan to the Final Four
    • 27% picked Kansas to the Final Four
    • 0.1% picked Loyola to the Final Four
  • Sitting in 54th place, Pam O’Shaughnessey, still has a 12.5% chance to win the PYO Challenge. For some reason she was persuaded to pick Villanova and Michigan.
  • A few Final Four facts:
    • All four teams won their conference tournaments.
    • Kansas Jayhawks last National Championship came in 2008 at… the Alamodome.
    • No ACC, SEC, or Pac 10 representation in Final Four.

Getting to Know the Leaders:

  1. Who is your favorite NCAA basketball team?
  2. Where were you born & where do you currently live?
  3. Family?
  4. What is your occupation?
  5. Of all the people alive in the world today- who would you want to have lunch with and why?
  6. Advice you’d give to those contestants you’re beating? What was your strategy?

1st place- Micah Chapman

  1. Michigan
  2. I was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and I currently live in Lima, Peru. 
  3. I have two sisters, my parents, four goldfish, and a dog. 
  4. I’m in the 6th grade. 
  5. I’d like to have lunch with Coach Beilein of Michigan. 
  6. Pick some high seeds, and go with your favorites.

2nd place- Elly Kutrieb

  1. I don't have one but if I had to pick it would be ichigan.

  2. Midland, Michigan

  3. I have a mom and a dad and three younger siblings (Addy, 8, Isaac, 6 , Ethan, 2) 
  4. I am a 7th grader and I love playing soccer and acting.(To tell the truth I don't even really like basketball, I just like doing the brackets.😂)
  5. Probably the Studio C cast members, they are friends and they put on skits on YouTube(They are also on a TV channel called BYUtv) that are SUPER funny and they sound so nice and fun! Everyone should watch it. 
  6. I just picked the ones with the higher seeds but if they were close then I did the one that I have heard of or if I haven't heard of either of them I picked the team name that was cooler.😎 I guess my advice would be not to think about it too much and just do it. 

3rd place- Jon Edwards

  1. WVU Mountaineers!!!
  2. I was born in Charleston, WV and currently live in Greenville, SC
  3. I have both parents still, three older brothers with two nephews each and one little sister.
  4. I am currently at Hillcrest High school teaching math and assistant coach for Bob Jones University women's basketball, my passion is coaching basketball!
  5. I would love to be able to meet and talk to John Beilein. I loved the way he coached at WVU and how he has continued to actually coach and teach at Michigan. The elite 8 run we had back in 2006 was amazing!
  6. Hope the madness goes your well and pick with your gut. I've always felt like when I analyze it too much I end up not making picks and regretting it, but the hope the madness goes your way is more important.

4th place- Kenn Kurowski

  1. Duke

  2. Pinconning MI and now Flint MI

  3. Family lives in Bay City, MI

  4. Retired military, graduated University Alabama, "Roll Tide"

  5. Colin Powell.  The most impressive person I have ever met.

  6. Divide the season into two parts.  You want to consider overall record, but you also want to evaluate how a team ends their season.