Tonight's NIT Championship Game at 7:00 PM EDT between Baylor and Penn State will decide the winner of the 5th annual BrendanLoy.com NIT Pool.

If Penn State wins, Robert Dokes will win the title. If Baylor wins, Jon Caplin will win the title. (Dokes has PSU beating San Diego State, which lost to Baylor on Tuesday, in the final. Caplin has Baylor beating PSU.)

Dokes is a resident of Beverly, Massachusetts, and a 2001 alumnus of Division III Gordon College (home of the Fighting Scots!) who knows pool administrator Brendan Loy through Loy's lifelong friend Diane Krause. Caplin, a Chicago resident and a 1999 Wisconsin alum, is Becky Loy's cousin.

Here are the final standings if Penn State wins, and the final standings if Baylor wins.

Meanwhile, I've been lazy about posting the scenarios for the 12th annual Living Room Times women's NCAA pool, heading into the Final Four (UConn vs. Stanford, Oklahoma vs. Louisville), but here they are:

• Michael Holtsberg wins if UConn wins the title, or loses the title game to Louisville.
• Andrew Long wins if Oklahoma wins the title.
• Michael Walsh wins if Stanford beats Oklahoma in the title game.
• Yvette Webster wins if it's a Stanford-Louisville title game (no matter who wins).

This would seem to make Holtsberg, a Broomall, PA resident and 1993 Penn alum, an overwhelming favorite to win the pool, considering that UConn is the overwhelming favorite to win the national championship.

The scenarios also mean that someone will clinch on Sunday (when the national semifinals are played) unless Oklahoma beats Louisville in the 7pm EDT game.