Check Out the Tournament Highlights on YouTube

Nobody Perfect After 1st Round: Here's the Top 5

Place	Mover/Loser	Name Last,First	Total	Champ	%
1t	NC (0)	Crisco	29/32	Kansas	91%
1t	NC (0)	R Wilson	29/32	Florida	91%
3t	Mover (+10)	Ludwig, Mike (Laz)	28/32	Georgetown	88%
3t	Mover (+10)	Bluto	28/32	Ohio St	88%
3t	NC (0)	Anderson, Christopher	28/32	Kansas	88%

The Round One Standings are Up . . .

Current Standings

Round One is Over . . .

All in all not a very exciting 1st Round. Only two double digit seeds are left in the tournament, Winthrop and VCU. Frankly, VCU is not that much of a surprise either.

Day two was a little more exciting with Virginia Tech making a impressive late game comeback to edge Illinois, while Oregon survived a late upset bid from Miami (OH).

The Current Standings will be posted very soon.

My Hokies Squeak by Illinois

A Little Humor from Day One . . .

Introducing Duke's Greg Paulus and how NOT to take a "charge" (thanks to the Duke Basketball Blog)

Day One is in the Books!

Day one of the NCAA Tournament has come and gone. I'm sure I'll remember much about it. Kinda boring really. The VCU upset of Duke was the exception. The rest of the games were really ho hum and mostly blowouts.

Hopefully tomorrow will bring more of the Madness this tournament stakes its reputation on.

BTW, you can now check out the Current Standings after day one.

Here's another look at how VCU finished off the dookies:

The First Upset of the Tournament!!

2007 Champions Summary

Here is who you have selected to win it all in 2007!!

The Monkey Madness field is set . . .

We have 86 entries into this year's contest!

The first few games are over and there will be an update as soon as we get to the end of round one (32 teams).

Good Luck!

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Homer has now made his picks . . .

Not to be outdone by his housemate, the MadnessMonkey, Homer has put his picks together. As you can see from his picks, he goes waaaay out on a limb. But that's what he does every year.



So, now you can judge your performance against two standards:

1. The advanced coin-flipping technology of the Monkey.
2. Homer's advanced method of ALWAYS picking the higher seed.

Now, let's see how you do! Game on.

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We are up to 60 entries!!

Keep them coming . . .



The play-in game is over and now the field of 64 teams is set!!



Congrats to Niagara for the 77-69 victory over Florida AM

I should also send congrats to the Rattlers also. NPR did a good story on them last week. That team and their coach seem to be doing the right things, the right way. Good luck to them next year!!



Remember, the fun starts tomorrow. By Sunday evening, we'll have the Sweet 16.

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One day left until the Tourney begins . . .

Don't forget to sign up! Tomorrow the fun begins.

The Monkey has made his picks!

Using the very latest in coin-flipping technology, the Madness Monkey has made his selections.

He has picked Georgia Tech to win it all. Now don't laugh too loudly. The Monkey has picked the champion before!! So, come on and join to see if YOU can "Beat the Monkey!"

Sincerely,
MM Admin and Cheif Trainer, Madness Monkey

The Hall of Fame . . .

These are the Champions and members of the Hall of Fame for the previous Monkey Madness Contests (2002 and 2001 records were lost):

2008

Records Lost ... Monkey was punished.

2007
Champion: Kevin Sanders (168)
Runners Up:

• Kevin Sanders
• Daley Speer
• Tony Blanton
• Heather Hicks
• Steven Hood

2006
Champion: Mello (90)
Runners Up:

• Kenneth Gamble (82)
• BamaBall (80)
• 12lookingfor13 (79)
• Bo Wilcoxson (78)

2005

Champion: Bill Sprinkle, Jr. (145)*

Runners Up:

• Kal Varnsen (145)
• Mike Blank (143)
• Kennedy Ross (142)
• William Torkelsen (137)

*won on tiebreaker

2004

Champion: Sid Smith (155 pts.)

Runners Up:

• W. Brackens (146 pts.)
• Shane Borden (144 pts.)
  
• Mr. Crimson (141 pts.)
  
• Donny Donald (132 pts.)
  

2003

Champion: Ken McCoy (126 pts.)

Runners Up:

• Lauren Waters (107 pts.)
  
• Curtis Gadula (94 pts.)
  
• Derek WIlliams (92 pts.)
• Trey Wallace (92 pts.)

The Hall of Shame . . .

Each year the people who fail to "Beat the Monkey" get the honor of being listed as Madness Monkey Hall of Shamers (or HOSers for short). Here is a list of the past year's members of the HOS.

2008 HOSers

Records lost ... Monkey severely punished.

2007 HOSers
Here is the 2007 Hall of Shame:
Pokey Chatman (69 pts.)
Robert Ellis (67 pts.)
Suck Creek Wings (66 pts.)
Emily Williams (65 pts.)
Cam (64 pts.)
Keith W. (64 pts.)
Chris Brockman (64 pts.)
George Harris (64 pts.)
Jane Barr (61 pts.)
Jean Barr (58 pts.)

2006 HOSers

Monkey (53 pts.)

Cliff Mitchell (53 pts.)
Cheryl Thomasson (53 pts.)
Shalonna Williams (53 pts.)
Daley Speer (52 pts.)
George Kakoliris (52 pts.)
Ohio TideRoller (52 pts.)
Jonathan Pettus (52 pts.)
Brett Loftin (52 pts.)
Cullen Estes (52 pts.)
Joe B. (51 pts.)
Tommy Peacock (50 pts.)
Anthony Olive (50 pts.)
Rick Wilson (50 pts.)
Baneret (50 pts.)
Harold Baxter (50 pts.)
Michael Clay (49 pts.)
Token (49 pts.)
MADDOG (49 pts.)
Barry Crowell (49 pts.)
Doug Simpson (49 pts.)
Chuck Miller (49 pts.)
Skydog102971 (48 pts.)
Jamie Carruth (48 pts.)
B Estes (48 pts.)
Dominic Angeles (48 pts.)
Dennis Harper (48 pts.)
Christopher Diffy (47 pts.)
James Hopper (46 pts.)
Hardcourt Harry (46 pts.)
Bert Lakin (46 pts.)
Jamie Couch (46 pts.)
Admiral Bubble (46 pts.)
Robert Herron (45 pts.)
Keith Kornegay (45 pts.)
Ronnie Bernard (44 pts.)
Butch Worley (44 pts.)
Rob Robertson (43 pts.)
UA82ND (43 pts.)
Pancake Eater (43 pts.)
Kevin Nelson (43 pts.)
Mr. Snowman (41 pts.)
Kenneth Barr (40 pts.)
Wingfield (39 pts.)
Bert Lakin (39 pts.)
Bama Gladiator (39 pts.)
Carrie Reitz (38 pts.)
Clark Griswold (36 pts.)

Rules of the Contest

Well, there aren't that many:

• Have Fun!!

• Please only one entry per person.
  

• You must include a name (doesn't have to be your real name) and an email (this must work) with your picks.
  

• Standard Scoring – To get points for Standard Scoring a player must correctly pick a team to win a certain game. Points are then awarded based on the points assigned for that round:
• First Round: 1 pt each
• Second Round: 2 pts each
• Sweet 16: 4 pts each
• Elite 8: 8 pts each
• Final Four: 16 pts each
• Final: 32 pts
• The Tie Breaker is the Total Points in the Finals; the second Tie Breaker is the number of players picks in the Sweet 16
  

DEADLINE FOR ENTRY

The picksheet is up!!

The deadline to enter is 12:15 p.m. on Thursday March 15!!

Enter soon and pass the word!!

MM

2007 Monkey's Madness!!!

Welcome to the 2007 Tournament!! Good luck this year!!