| Rk | Name | Score | Nickname | Location | School(s) | How you know Brendan | Other info |
| -- | *AGGREGATE PICKS BRACKET* | 341 | This is not a real contestant, it is the aggregate picks of all contestants. | | | | |
| -- | *ALL FAVORITES BRACKET* | 339 | This is not a real contestant, it is a bracket with all the top seeds winning. | | | | |
| 79 | Amy Aemisegger | 267 | AKA33Brit | Hillsdale, MI | | | |
| 71 | Andrew Long | 280 | Andrew | Long Beach, CA | USC | Brendan and I both share a strong appreciation for lesbian-dominated sports. | Michael Beasley is my girlfriend's friend's cousin. |
| 21 | Becky Loy | 346 | | Knoxville, TN | | | |
| 17 | Bill Pancoast | 352 | Billy P | Rocky Hill,CT 06067 | Xavier High School 1983 | His Blog | UCONN Huskies |
| 78 | Bob Lutts | 270 | | W. Hartford, CT | | | |
| 68 | Bonnie Stone | 289 | Bonnie | Newington, CT | | | |
| 64 | Brandon Minich | 297 | | | | | See Men's Pool |
| 34 | Brendan Loy | 335 | | | | I am Brendan. | |
| 60 | Brian Dupuis | 300 | DUP | Baton Rouge, LA | LSU | | |
| 35 | Carol LaPlante | 334 | | Buffalo, NY | | | mother of smart girls who knew I would be choosing UNC for choosing my girl! |
| 31 | Carolyn Blessing | 338 | internatlgirl | | ND Law School | | |
| 51 | Chris Aemisegger | 320 | | | | | |
| 55 | Chris Bravo | 316 | cdbavg400 | Tucson, AZ | USC class of 2007, current grad student at UofA | regular blog reader since the Bush Push | Classics student... |
| 26 | Chuck Wessell | 343 | AlphabeticalAT | Raleigh, NC | B.S. and M.S. from NC State University ('85 and '89). Currently enrolled in the mathematics Ph.D. program at NCSU. | Did a web search looking for women's and/or NIT pools. | Girl Power! |
| 26 | Colleen Duggan | 343 | | norfolk, va | Newington High School/St Paul Catholic High School 2001
Sacred Heart University - 2005
Old Dominion University - 2009 (hopefully!) | | |
| 48 | Conor Sullivan | 321 | | Newington, CT | NHS '07
RPI '11 | Reader since '03 | |
| 4 | Dan Port | 372 | Dan | Los Angeles, CA | USC 2000-2004
Bennington College 2004-2006 | Wrote for the Daily Trojan | I'm from Wisconsin originally, so I'm a big fan of Wisconsin and Marquette. I worked for the USC men's team for 3 years so I definitely have ties there too. |
| 72 | Danny Pilz | 278 | | | stonehill | | |
| 28 | Dave Whelan | 340 | Dave | Newington. CT | NHS | know of him from my sister | UCONN |
| 54 | David Kreutz | 318 | David K. | Seattle, WA | USC, UW | | |
| 43 | Don LaPlante | 328 | | Buffalo NY | | Thru Becky - via Kristy (go SHA) | |
| 3 | F.X. McGahee | 374 | FX | Aiken, SC, USA | University of South Carolina | Reader since Katrina. | See Men's pool. |
| 35 | Gary Atkinson | 334 | | | | | see mens pool entry |
| 44 | Gary Kirby | 326 | gahrie | San Bernardino Calif | | | |
| 29 | Gerry deSimas | 339 | | Avon CT | UMass | | |
| 81 | Ginny Zak | 258 | MumZ | Phoenix | | | |
| 15 | Greg Kagan | 354 | | Ft. Lauderdale, FL | Nova Southeastern University | | UCONN |
| 55 | Greg Plank | 316 | gfish13 | Tempe, AZ | | | see Men's NIT entry |
| 14 | Ian Auzenne | 355 | | Princeton, New Jersey, by way of Lafayette, Louisiana | Princeton '10 | From the blog when searching for the NCAA men's pool last year. | Ian "Da Man" Auzenne enters the women's pool for the second year in a row in an attempt to win at least one of the three Living Room Times pools this year. His ultimate goal is to win the triple crown, but we'll get to that bridge when we cross it. Ian looks to finish better than his 31st place finish last year. |
| 44 | Jackie Wilson | 326 | | Hoboken, NJ | Duke 04
Notre Dame 07 | We went to law school together. | A student transfered from Duke to UNC. The grade point average of both schools increased as a result... |
| 51 | Jay Johnson | 320 | Jay Johnson | Loudon, TN | University of Memphis
University of Tennessee | Pure, unadulterated dumb luck. | Suck it, Geno. Pat Rules! |
| 1 | Jeff Freeze | 381 | Jeff | Portage, Indiana | Notre Dame, Michigan State, and IU (Class of '92) | Regular blog reader since Katrina. | ND RULES! |
| 62 | Jeff Morrison | 299 | JD | Des Moines IA | Iowa State '04 | Regular reader since Katrina | Went to 2nd-round game last year in Minneapolis; plan to watch ISU play in Des Moines this year |
| 6 | Jeff Vaca | 362 | calbear | Elk Grove, CA | Cal '82 | Regular reader since Katrina | |
| 89 | Jen Ham | 196 | Jen | Santa Barbara | USC, UCLA, UCSB | Information already disclosed. | I'd rather eat ice cream than watch basketball. |
| 51 | Jennifer Elam | 320 | | Marceline, MO | | Blog reader since Katrina | Live in the boyhood home of Walt Disney. |
| 58 | Jeremy Gist | 305 | | Lafayette Indiana | University of Evansville | regualar reader since Katrina | Notre Dame |
| 84 | Jessica Osborne | 253 | Ozzie | Denver, CO | School of Hard Knocks, Iowa (aka Da Cornfields) | I was relaxing on a park bench one autumn day when I spied a bus approaching in the distance. Meanwhile, I noticed a young man approaching from a south-westerly direction with a bag of what one could only assume was schoolbooks slung over his shoulder. As fickle fate would have it, I lept onto my feet in the onslaught of a fast approaching bus, in slow-mo, approaching fastly. The young man appeard to lose his footing, and his books, and his dignity, and came to rest sprawled out in the middle of the intersection. With lightning speed I responded by gathering up his books, and making a mad dash for safety while yelling over my shoulder words of encouragement for him to do the same. But do not worry, oh gentle reader: he survived. And killed my birds two years later. :) | I taught an Olympic gold-medal swimmer (Kirstie Coventry from So. Africa) how to play the Circle of Death drinking game. |
| 23 | Jim Hu | 344 | | | | | |
| 66 | Joanna Rubin | 291 | | Silver Spring, MD | University of Maryland, College Park
Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD | husband grew up with him | |
| 77 | Joe Loy | 272 | Joe | Newington CT USA | Georgetown et seq :} | | |
| 2 | Joseph Hiegel | 379 | Jahiegel | Greenfield, Wisconsin | As in my NIT entry | | |
| 40 | Josh Rubin | 330 | jlr | Silver Spring, MD | see NIT entry | see NIT entry | see NIT entry |
| 7 | Joshua Krause | 361 | | New Britain, CT | | see NCAA men's | |
| 83 | Joyce Kohler | 254 | Geojoy | Bethlehem,PA | | | |
| 74 | Katrina Lewonczyk | 276 | | Amerst, MA | Newington High School-- 2006
University of Massachusetts Amherst-- 2010 | I know Brendan through Angela Lewonczyk | |
| 29 | Kay Torg | 339 | vtktorg | Charlottesville, VA | Virginia Tech | | |
| 76 | Kelly Strutz | 274 | | | | | is on men's pool entry |
| 5 | Ken Stern | 366 | | | | | |
| 7 | Ken Wagner | 361 | KenW | Nashville, TN | | | |
| 62 | Kevin Curran | 299 | kcatnd | North Wales, PA | Notre Dame Alum (2003-2007) | Regular blog reader since early 2005 | Favorite teams:
1. Notre Dame
2. Nebraska
3. UNC |
| 7 | Kevin Hauschulz | 361 | | East Hartford, CT 06118 | already submitted | submitted | submitted |
| 7 | Kevin Pilz | 361 | Kevin | Newington | Newington High School | Brother/dad | |
| 87 | Kim Stone | 226 | | | | | |
| 48 | Kristy LaPlante | 321 | Legs LaPlante | Denver, CO | SHA! 2000
Ithaca College 2003
DMA Certification program at CSU (current) | I'm his baby's favoritest auntie EVER! I'm also his long-distance babysitter. | All-time favorite team is Duke (men's....women's is TN with a historical spot in my heart for UConn). This is, in fact, the very first time I haven't picked Duke to win it all... mostly because they were awful this year. I'm still a competitive bball and vball athlete, and may I add, basically champion-worthy snowboarder :) |
| 33 | Kristy McCray | 337 | NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZE; competing for pride only | San Luis Obispo, CA | USC undergrad 2002
USC master's 2007 | Know Brendan from USC, fight on! | I know Diana Taurasi from high school! She got me interested in women's hoops. |
| 91 | Larry Caplin | 128 | Big Turkey | Union Lake, Michigan | University of Detroit (Titans)
Grad. 1966 |
Becky's Uncle | Favorite Teams: MSU Spartans, Wisconsin Badgers, Depauw Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, University of Illinois at Chicago Lunatics |
| 35 | Leanna Loomer | 334 | Leanna | Newington CT | Pratt '03
U.Mass.
U.Ill. | his mother | U.Conn.
In 1938-39 my father coached girls' H.S. basketball in Iowa. |
| 60 | Lisa Velte | 300 | | | | I secretly stalk Brendan. And I'm an admirer of Loyette. | |
| 85 | Loyette Loy | 228 | Becky and Brendan's baby daughter; NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZE | Knoxville, TN | Mother Goose Program at the Knox County Library | He's my daddy. | I can grab things! I can also roll over! And I like milk. Mmmm, milk. My mommy and daddy say I'm the cutest baby in the universe. I picked Tennessee to win the championship because I saw them play and they're really good. All my other picks, I made with coin flips. |
| 82 | M.T. Swanson | 256 | | | Ball State | blog reader | swimsuit designer and consultant for Ashley Dupre |
| 23 | Mark Gardner | 344 | Gardner | Fredericksburg, VA | Penn State | Read the blog since thy thar 'cane ravaged the town under thy sea to Davy Jones locker. | |
| 18 | Matt Kagan | 348 | | Worcester, MA | SNHU | NHS | |
| 69 | Matt Thomsen | 282 | | North Chicago, IL | see men's pool entry | see men's pool entry | see men's pool entry |
| 23 | Matt Wiser | 344 | Mike's brother Matt | Baton Rouge, LA | Rochester 02, LSU '05, '09, a PhD sometime even later | Either you know my brother or have been playing an elaborate and bizzare hoax for years. | |
| 13 | Michael Rosenkrantz | 357 | Mike R. | Newington, CT | Cornell, Newington HS | Newington | As a Cornell Alum, I'd love to see them do well. On the other hand, they have zero probability of beating UConn. |
| 35 | Mike Wiser | 334 | | Lansing, MI | USC (2003), Stanford (2006), MSU (2011?) | Stalking his website has helped maintain contact | |
| 67 | Pat Caplin | 290 | | | | | see men's pool |
| 20 | Patrick Roach | 347 | Patrick | Washington, D.C. | Denison University, Notre Dame Law School | Law School | Xavier & Notre Dame |
| 47 | Peter Timbrell | 322 | Pete | Vernon, CT | Rockville High school | referred to this pool by a friend | Uconn |
| 18 | Rachel Wetherill | 348 | ditsyquoin | Bluemont VA | Dawn Staley is my hero. | Years of enjoying the living room times. Is the decor colonial? | Anybody else going to College Park on Easter Sunday? Sec. 116. |
| 57 | Randy Styles | 307 | | South Bend,IN | | | Notre Dame, Indiana |
| 46 | Rick Boeckler | 324 | Uncle Rick | Silver Spring, MD | | I met Brendan in one of my previous lives. | I lettered in College in Chess |
| 90 | Robbie Loy | 171 | Brendan and Becky Loy's dog; NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZE | Knoxville, TN | I used to run around a circular track chasing a mechanical rabbit thingy. It was very educational. This is why I picked Murray State, by the way: they're the Racers. I'm a racer, too! | Woof! Brendan is my dad. | There aren't very many teams with dog mascots in this tournament! But the Huskies are going all the way, baby. Oh, and I picked Robert Morris because my name is also Robert. |
| 88 | Rosalie Town | 215 | | Sana'a, Yemen | USC! 99-03
UT! 08-10
| USC, Freshman year, Trojan Hall. | See men's bracket.
Also, I've filled out both of these brackets while on drugs. Okay, a legal, mild stimulant (called qat), but still. :) |
| 69 | Rose Holden | 282 | | boyce, va/usa | st. joseph's college, emmitsburg, md...before it became the national fire academy/training center | i found out about brendan from the postmaster in bluemont, va. this is my second year in the pool. | i've always been a Terps fan! i wouldn't beat Dick Vitale up but i would buy him a huge lunch so he wouldn't be able to talk during the games. |
| 41 | Ryan Dalidowitz | 329 | | | | | |
| 41 | Sandy Berman | 329 | sandyb | Durham, NC | Northwestern University | | Love the mascots! I think conferences should be organized by mascots |
| 15 | Scott Loomer | 354 | Scotty | Kingston, PA | | Uncle | |
| 58 | Scott Paine | 305 | | | | | |
| 48 | Sean Sullivan | 321 | | | Amherst College | Discovered the blog through Katrina coverage | Occasional guestblogger |
| 31 | Soren Hammerschmidt | 338 | | Granta Grenadia, GG | CUSB | I jumped straight in, feet first. | Everything . . . everything is so lovely, so warm and fuzzy . . . won't you come run through cornflower fields with me? |
| 65 | Stacey Dubois | 294 | | Jefferson, NH | University of New Haven - 2006 Graduate | friend of Matt Thomsen | Go UNC! |
| 75 | Steve Duvernay | 275 | | Sacramento | The University of California ('03); Notre Dame Law School ('07) | Brendan taught helped me perfect my two-handed set shot. | [redacted] |
| 12 | Steve Leys | 358 | | | Notre Dame '05
Notre Dame Law '08 | I went to school with that damn blog writer named Brendan Loy. | |
| 39 | Ted Zak | 332 | phx | | | | |
| 85 | Toby, Sasha and Butter Zak Loy | 228 | Brendan and Becky Loy's cats; NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PRIZE | Knoxville, TN | Puh. As if. | Brendan is our human. | There aren't nearly enough cat teams in this bracket. Clearly the season was rigged. We suspect dog involvement. |
| 11 | Tom Caputi | 359 | stumpchamp | Granby, CT | See men's entry | See men's entry | See men's entry |
| 21 | Tyler Condon | 346 | | | | | |
| 73 | Weston Cross | 277 | | Buffalo, NY | UB graduate | Through Barbara | Like UB, pulling for kent St.
Hate SU, Ohio U and Miami, OH |
| 80 | Yvette Webster | 259 | Why Alice | | none that I want to claim | I don't know him but Rachel Wetherill makes me enter this pool every year so that she is assured that she won't come in last. | I make my picks based on random things like mascots or team colors and sometimes what my cat wants. |