| Rk | Entry Name | Score | Twitter | Nicknames | Location | School Affiliations | How you know Brendan / found this pool | Tie |
| 216 | Abby Kidd | 162 | @abby_kidd | | Pasco, WA | BYU 2007 | Don't know him; referred by Jeremy Kidd | 177 |
| 6 | Abby Newbold | 328 | | | Boston, MA | Villanova '04 | wife of brian newbold | 168 |
| 3 | Adam Feldman | 347 | | | | | | 85 |
| 137 | Adam Uthe | 231 | AUtheGFT | | Deep in the heart of Texas now | Went to Udayton with @juliaflyer, Constantly practicing Rule No.1 (Cardio) , and my favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard | Via @juliaflyer and TMM | 137 |
| 107 | Addison Cilli | 247 | cilli5280 | Cilli | Denver, CO | Colorado State. Owner of Mile High Hoops | Through Mile High Hoops. Mostly DU games. | 159 |
| 131 | AJ St. John | 233 | | | | | | 206 |
| 163 | Alan Kelly | 209 | MasonFanatic | | Fairfax, VA | George Mason University | Twitter follower / 800GP | 148 |
| 45 | Alec Taylor | 292 | @alectaylor | | | | | 135 |
| 66 | Alex Talcott | 276 | @AlexTalcott | | New England | Dartmouth College, Notre Dame Law School; teach at Div. III Newbury College (Go Nighthawks); St. John's fan | law school classmate | 153 |
| 164 | Alison Vargas | 208 | | Flargas | Covina, CA | Pepperdine Grad School of Education & Psychology
USC *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | | 95 |
| 64 | Amanda Rykoff | 279 | @amandarykoff | | New York, NY | Contributor for espnW.com. Proud UPenn alum (aka the team that almost forced a playoff with Harvard for the Ivy title. | Twitter friend/follower | 157 |
| 84 | Amir Sadaghiani | 260 | | Amir | Port Jervis, NY | Bucknell University 1999-2003
University of Notre Dame Law School 2003-2006 | I know Brendan from Notre Dame Law School | 144 |
| 162 | Amy Booth | 210 | | AmyB | San Diego, California | USC grad, but lots of love for SDSU since it is just down the freeway. | We have a USC connection mainly because of my favorite conservative Andrew Long. | 111 |
| 207 | Amy Greca | 169 | | | Newington, CT | Farmington High '00 | My husband went to school with Brendan | 139 |
| 183 | Andrew Baran | 197 | ajbaran | | New York, NY | St. John Fisher College graduate, Syracuse and Bills Fan | Twitter follower | 135 |
| 77 | Andrew Fielding | 263 | skyvan | Fielding | Denver | Depressed DU and Angry UCLA fan | | 155 |
| 90 | Andrew Hunter | 257 | | | Columbia, MO | Missouri Tigers | | 123 |
| 58 | Andrew Long | 285 | @OhMyNotThisOneAgain | AMLTrojan | Herndon, VA | USC | Saw a broken web link to this page from my favorite porn site. | 133 |
| 112 | Andy Glockner | 245 | andyglockner | aglock | Northern CT | #PennQuakers! | Twitter follower, budding in-person relationship, #ballz | 145 |
| 229 | Barbara Cross | 99 | | | Buffalo, NY | Go UB! *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | PS, 17th annual sounds REALLY old - what happened to our youths? | 231 |
| 195 | Becky Loy | 185 | | | | | | 148 |
| 22 | Ben Eng | 305 | | We Todd | Carbondale, IL | BA (2000)- James Madison University
MBA (2010)- Marshall University
Ph.D. (current) - Southern Illinois University
I like turtles. | I know Brendan from Kristy LaPlante and the great We Todd Controversy of 2004 (I think was the year). | 141 |
| 41 | Bill Hobbs | 294 | billhobbs | | Brentwood, TN | Worked for Belmont for a few years. | Read his blog, follow him on the twitter | 178 |
| 144 | Bill Huffman | 224 | | | | | | 125 |
| 224 | Bob Lutts | 143 | | | West Hartford, CT | | | 136 |
| 213 | Bonnie Stone | 166 | | | Newington, CT | SHS and CCSU alum, NHS retiree | I have know OF Brendan since he was in middle school and have known him personally since he came to NHS. | 187 |
| 66 | Brandon Minich | 276 | brando_minich | B. Minich | Frederick, MD | Indiana Unversity of Pennsylvania, 2004. I root for Penn State, which is depressing from a basketball standpoint. And a football standpoint too these days. | Probably came with the Katrina influx, stayed for the geekiness. I also know (and go to the same church as) someone he graduated from high school with, though we didn't realize we were both blog commenters until fairly recently. | 129 |
| 196 | Brendan Loy | 184 | brendanloy | #PANIC | Denver, CO | Dammit, Denver. (This game will hurt you.) | I am Brendan | 141 |
| 61 | Brett Hein | 281 | @bhein3 | | Utah | BYU, Weber State | Twitter Follower | 111 |
| 15 | Brian Brown | 316 | theBrarian | | Annapolis MD | Trojan football, UCLA basketball
UCLA grad | Follow on twitter from his weather reports | 137 |
| 2 | Brian Kiolbasa | 355 | | | Portland, OR | ASU '03
NDLS '07 | Law school, derp. | 144 |
| 165 | Brian Neudorff | 207 | @BrianNeudorff | boilerwxman | Twin Falls, ID | Purdue University and the Big Ten (except Indiana) Also partial to other Indiana schools that get into the tourney. | I met Brendan through his blog and weather (specifically hurricane) coverage. Finally met him in person when he was traveling through NW PA. Am also a Facebook and Twitter follower. | 144 |
| 53 | Brian Newbold | 289 | | | | | | 148 |
| 100 | Bridget Saviola | 252 | | | | | | 156 |
| 65 | Cam McLachlan | 278 | | | Rancho Palos Verdes | | Good friend of Ginny and Fred Zak | 157 |
| 169 | Carol LaPlante | 205 | | | Cheektowaga, NY | Attended SHA, then a SHA Mom, married an athlete, bore an athlete. Personally athletically challenged, I would rather dance anytime, anyplace. | | 132 |
| 166 | Casey Conner | 206 | | Oh the Humanity | Racine, WI | Attended Wisconsin for 3+ years, finished school somewhere else, became a mailman (don't sneer, I like my job). Twice won Amateur section of Wisconsin closed Chess Championship (not as bigf a deal as it sounds). Other than that I'm pretty boring | I was browsing for contests to get into last year and I saw your link | 152 |
| 220 | Casey Zak | 152 | @caseyzak | Basketball Jones | Rochester, NY | USC
University of Rochester | I created Brendan out of a puddle of organic goo | 171 |
| 38 | Cathy Doo | 296 | | | vero beach | iu | weather blog, ND | 142 |
| 202 | Charles Fenwick | 175 | clfenwi | | Jacksonville, FL | | | 141 |
| 140 | Chris Bennett | 228 | @denverctb | | Denver, CO | BS GWU 1989
MBA DU 1997
Intersting basketball-related story:In high school, where I was 10th man off bench, I was both dunked over and had what I thought was an uncontested layoff blocked into the stands by Danny Ferry, all within a span of about a minute and half. | Twitter follower and fellow DUHoops supporter. | 183 |
| 4 | Chris Bossman | 342 | cbos54923 | CJ | Tampa | ND MBA 1990 | Blog reader from way back | 167 |
| 218 | Chris Evans | 158 | | Doc | Jinan, China | USC | Regular blog reader since the old days. | 110 |
| 129 | Chris Newbury | 234 | @cjnewbury | cnewbury | Alexandria, VA | North Carolina | Blog reader, twitter follower. | 165 |
| 13 | Chris Palmer | 319 | chrispalm | | Long Valley, NJ | UVM class of 2010, proud keeper of Bally #23 as well as UVM #BALLZ | We're twitter pals. | 146 |
| 90 | Chris Schreiber | 257 | @seasolicitorcjs | Gimlet, CJS, BostonBarrister | Seattle, WA | Law school attended: Vanderbilt
Former collegiate rugby player | Twitter follower (by way of following blog posts via Instapundit). | 135 |
| 112 | Christina Sullivan | 245 | | Shaun's girl | Frederick. MD | University of Maryland Grad 2000 | referred by husband | 162 |
| 47 | Christopher D'Lauro | 291 | cog_nerd | D'Lauro | Monument, CO | PhD - CU Boulder
Dickinson College undergrad
Carnegie Mellon post-doc | Follow on twitter from LONG ago - pre-hurricane days | 131 |
| 47 | Cody Groeber | 291 | | | | | | 123 |
| 115 | Colin Pedicini | 244 | @cmpedicini | | Fort Worth, TX | NMSU '09, TCU '13
spotter for NWS Dallas/Fort Worth and CBS 11 | Regular reader since Katrina | 136 |
| 201 | Colleen Duggan | 176 | colleenduggan | | Newington, CT | Newington High School
St Paul Catholic High School (MVP of the Class S State Championship in 2001)
Sacred Heart University - 4 years of Division I basketball
Trinity College - 2 years as an assistant coach | Good ol Newington High School basketball | 141 |
| 123 | Craig Smith | 240 | smithcp1 | | | IU grad, Wisconsin fan | | 151 |
| 45 | Dan Ginsburg | 292 | | DanG82 | Chicago, IL | University of Wisconsin | Google | 136 |
| 110 | Dan Port | 246 | @DanPort | | Los Angeles, CA | Born/raised in Wisconsin, so like the Badgers and Marquette. Went to USC. Also bit of a Kansas fan. | Worked with Brendan at Daily Trojan. | 135 |
| 174 | Daniel Dinunzio | 204 | dinunziodjd | | Newington,CT | UCONN | Newington! | 134 |
| 176 | Daniel Pilz | 202 | | | Newington, CT | NHS/Stonehill College | | 181 |
| 96 | Danielle Forko | 255 | | Dani | Newington, CT/USA | UCONN | My brother went to High School with Brendan (Matt Thomsen) | 140 |
| 12 | Danielle Rock Davis | 320 | | Rock | NEW YORK, NEW YORK | Notre Dame | Law School Torture | 122 |
| 141 | Dave Roberts | 227 | | | Washington, DC | Georgetown, Notre Dame | Personally know him from NDLS | 189 |
| 148 | Dave Simon | 222 | nyillini311@gmail.com | Dave | Queens, NY | Illinois '05 Graduate | Twitter follower. | 159 |
| 115 | David Hodges | 244 | dehodges | dehodges | new york, ny | chapel hill alumni, kentucky and duke hater, acc loyalist, the big east sux. | twitter follower | 152 |
| 87 | David Kreutz | 259 | davidkreutz | | Seattle, WA | UW, USC | College roommate, groomsman, etc. | 157 |
| 219 | Deanah Kim | 154 | | Ball of String | Rochester, NY | | I was present when Brendan was created from a puddle of organic goo | 151 |
| 181 | Deanna Schneider | 198 | deanagabriel | deannagabriel | Pittsburgh PA | Columbia University, Niagara University, SHA. I'll be at the first round games in Pittsburgh this year! Followed Pitt more closely this year since relocating to Pitt from NYC! | Through Becky and the other SHA girls! :) | 119 |
| 73 | Derek McDonald | 270 | | Dmack | Newington, CT | Newington High School-1999
Central CT State University-2008
Go Notre Dame and UCONN | I went to high school and graduated with Brendan. | 110 |
| 119 | Diane Krause | 242 | | | | | | 162 |
| 192 | Don LaPlante | 188 | | DJ | Cheektowaga NY/USA | Graduated from LeMoyne College - Go Tar Heels | Kristy / Becky | 146 |
| 157 | Doug Mataconis | 216 | dmataconis | | Warrenton, VA | Rutgers, George Mason | | 165 |
| 203 | Eddie Regan | 172 | | | washington | Alum of WVU and St Marys | | 133 |
| 32 | Elizabeth Styles | 299 | | RandysWife | South Bend, In | Notre Dame 2003
Mom of one little girl and one kitty. | Blog reader since 2005, Met Brendan thru my BFF, Miss Lisa Velte, law school classmate. My husband, WolfmanBC, is a regular reader and pool junkie... Oscar pool, brackets, etc. One of these days I'll beat him. | 122 |
| 160 | Elliot Caplin | 211 | | Big E | Weldon Spring, MO | | Cousin | 139 |
| 100 | Eric Morisset | 252 | | Denver Gator | Denver, CO | University of Florida, Denver University, bass player for 3 Star Monday | Our daughters are in the same ECE class | 136 |
| 35 | Eric Schmoldt | 298 | ericschmoldt | E | Laramie | Graduated from Wisconsin. Beat writer for Wyoming. | Twitter | 145 |
| 68 | Erik Nell | 274 | eriknell | | Indianapolis | Purdue student, reader/follower of Mid Majority | | 145 |
| 144 | Esteban Coca | 224 | | | Katy, TX | New Mexico State Alumnus | | 135 |
| 94 | Flaco Wetherill-Webster | 256 | | Flaco WeWe; El Flaco Loco | Round Hill, VA USA | I am El Flaco Loco-12.5lbs of Latino Fury. Unlike my namesake, I don't drink. I was a bumble bee for halloween and stung many pit bulls. (Rachel Wetherill & Yvette Webster's chihuahua.) | I don't know Brendan but does he have any pupperoni? | 169 |
| 119 | Fred Silva | 242 | dartfred | | San Antonio, Texas | *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | don't know him, was referred to this pool by Alex Talcott | 145 |
| 158 | Gary Atkinson | 214 | | | Boyce, VA | Loudoun County High School; home of the Raiders! | Introduced by a co-worker | 123 |
| 87 | Ginny Zak | 259 | | MumZ | Old Canyon, AZ | | | 99 |
| 100 | Greg Habegger | 252 | | | South Bend, IN | I live about 1000 yards from ND campus | regular blog reader | 152 |
| 14 | Greg Kagan | 317 | | | Newington, CT | Nova Southeastern University, D2 Athlete | Brother went to HS with Brendan. | 151 |
| 189 | Greg Shtraks | 193 | | Edmont Dantes | Montclair. New Jersey | George Washington University ('05, '09).
| Through a mutual friend. I've been participating for 7 years and this pool always kicks ass. I was close one year! | 158 |
| 139 | Heather Gardner | 229 | | | | | | 178 |
| 81 | Ian Auzenne | 261 | @iauzenne | "The Man" | Lafayette, Louisiana | Princeton University, Class of 2010 | Former colleague is a former participant. Sixth-year player. Host of a public access TV show. Sports talk radio host and play-by-play guy. All-around nice guy. | 157 |
| 228 | Indy Tyll | 118 | @pamelatyll's dog | | Houston, TX | | | 143 |
| 40 | Jack Moore | 295 | jh_moore | jh_moore | Madison, Wisconsin | Graduated UW-Madison in 2011. Played on #3 Division 2 Club Baseball team for UW-Madison in 2011. | Follow on twitter. | 154 |
| 226 | James Young | 124 | | | Kansas | Currently attend K-State. | Reader of the current and former blog. | 120 |
| 107 | Jason Cowans | 247 | | JC | Chandler, AZ | UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | | 155 |
| 188 | Jason Rogers | 194 | | | Atlanta, GA | | | 144 |
| 186 | Jay Barasch | 195 | | | New Mexico | attended USC undergraduate
attended Duke law school
Attending the 2012 Final Four in New Orleans, LA | Know Brendan from USC | 140 |
| 217 | Jeff Brown | 160 | jeffbrown01 | Sweet Pickle McGee | Tuscaloosa, AL | University of Alabama. Also pull for Florida State. I don't dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. I do that in the burning sun. I like female entrepreneurs and football. Not in that order. | Twitter follower. My buddy @joesportswriter retweets you a lot..so since I was already seeing all of your posts anyway, I just followed you. You bring the lulz and I can respect that. | 149 |
| 127 | Jeff Freeze | 235 | @bigfreezer | | Burns Harbor, Indiana | | | 158 |
| 166 | Jeff Morrison | 206 | | JD | Iowa | Iowa State '04. Going to first four rounds of WBB tournament. | Regular since Katrina; met him in 2009 (was it that long ago?!) | 179 |
| 55 | Jeff Poor | 288 | @jeff_poor | | Washington, DC | | | 148 |
| 55 | Jeff Vaca | 288 | jvcalbear | | Elk Grove, CA | Cal '82 | Regular blog reader since the old days; Twitter follower | 165 |
| 123 | Jen Deschenes | 240 | just jeno7 | | Newington, CT | Attended Newington High School and CCSU, but an Oregon Ducks fan! | I wen't to NHS with Brendan. | 121 |
| 151 | Jenni Konrad | 219 | best_day_ever | plinko | Minneapolis, MN | University of Minnesota alum, but I only care about their hockey team. Proud co-owner of Bally Basketball, who travels around the world with us and makes friends everywhere he goes. | I know Brendan via my husband Matt (@noslowallgo), who introduced me to the Midmajority. | 133 |
| 10 | Jeremy Kidd | 323 | @BYUfootblog | tririte | Pasco, WA | BS in Elementary Education from BYU in 2007. Currently working on a masters degree in Ed Leadership at WSU. Grew up as a Hawkeye. | Brendan is my personal LOTR-CFB cross-reference guru (I know him from twitter) | 152 |
| 22 | Jeremy Lee | 305 | ULhothot | ULhothot | Rapid City, SD | Rooting Interest: Louisville Cardinals
Former NAIA athlete at Asbury College, KY (soccer) | Twitter | 138 |
| 16 | Jessica Cowans | 315 | @neion | jess | chandler, AZ | U of AZ grad | Worked w/brendan in phx. | 162 |
| 134 | Jessica Fortuna | 232 | @jessialli | | Enfield, CT | Newington High School
American International College
Big UConn and Texas fan
played NCAA softball in college | i know Brendan from high school :o) | 117 |
| 57 | Joe Hiegel | 286 | Jahiegel | | Greenfield, Wisconsin | | | 137 |
| 68 | Joe Kosek | 274 | | The Major | Colorado Springs | | Through the Major's Girl | 125 |
| 125 | Joe Swiderski | 236 | | | Washington, DC | Notre Dame (alma mater), Michigan State (grew up there). | | 162 |
| 90 | Joe Wright | 257 | Sctvman | Sctvman | Charleston, SC | College of Charleston student, go to almost all home games, student leader | From 800 Games Project. #ALLCAPSDAY | 134 |
| 84 | Joey Perucki | 260 | | | Newington ct | | | 125 |
| 146 | John Cary | 223 | KilroyFSU | KilroyFSU | Tallahassee, FL | Florida State University, DNG 1998
University of Akron, BA 2001
University of Central Florida, MPA 2004
Florida State University, JD 2009
Michigan State University, DNG 2011
| Twitter follower | 150 |
| 125 | John Presper | 236 | | Joe Mama | | | | 160 |
| 178 | John Ronalter | 201 | | | Newington, CT | Currently attending Providence College. | don't know him, was referred by a friend of his. | 131 |
| 221 | Jon Caplin | 150 | | JC | Chicago | Wisconsin '99. I am currently trending on twitter. | | 128 |
| 100 | Jonathan Bates | 252 | iampangean | Jonathan | Los Angeles, CA | USC | Twitter follower | 135 |
| 159 | Joseph Swanson | 213 | | | La Porte, Indiana | | | 138 |
| 166 | Josh Rubin | 206 | @terprubin | TerpRubin | Gaithersburg, MD | | | 153 |
| 7 | Joshua Guiher | 327 | @collegiatestdms | Josh | State College, PA | Penn State | twitter | 155 |
| 53 | Joshua Krause | 289 | | | New Britain, CT | | Know him through mutual friend Diane (Huffman) Krause. | 151 |
| 169 | Julia Prior | 205 | @juliaflyer | juliaflyer | Houston, TX | Attended Dayton. Own Bally #90 and a Dayton Balls. I once beat the devil in a fiddle duel. I sold the gold fiddle to pay for college. | TMM, YO. | 143 |
| 105 | Justin Vale | 249 | none | Justin | Vernon, CT | Eastern Connecticut State University, UConn. | Been playing the pool for years. Won it once a few years ago. | 165 |
| 178 | Karen Torgersen | 201 | vtktorg | KTorg | Raleigh, NC | Virginia Tech forever.... happy to have not had to sweat the bubble thing this year. | Regular blog reader and twitter follower | 166 |
| 180 | Kelly Strutz | 199 | | | Chapel Hill's Hippie Conjoined Twin, NC | GO TAR HEELS! I also really want the Bonnies to beat Florida State, but don't expect it to happen. *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | What is this "Brendan" of which you speak? | 159 |
| 134 | Ken Stern | 232 | | | Thomaston, Maine | Attended both USC and UCLA, practiced law in California....now a recovering attorney in Maine. | | 88 |
| 49 | Ken Wagner | 290 | | KenW | Nashville, TN | | blog reader since Katrina | 156 |
| 105 | Kevin Curran | 249 | KevinCurranX | Kcatnd | Austin, TX | Notre Dame '07 | Regular reader since 2005 pre-Katrina | 145 |
| 115 | Kevin Hauschulz | 244 | | | | | | 127 |
| 181 | Kevin Hauschulz | 198 | @khauschulz | | Vernon, CT | See other entry | Same as other entry | 168 |
| 35 | Kevin Heaslip | 298 | @kevinheaslip | Kevin | Logan, UT | I teach at USU. I have also worked at the University of Florida. I attended Virginia Tech and UMass Amherst. I own 2 Bally's | | 121 |
| 200 | Kevin Pilz | 178 | Kevin | Pilz | Newington | Manchester Community College | Brother/Father | 134 |
| 230 | Kevin Spencer | 95 | pezduh | Kev-Tubby | Roanoke, VA | UK Wildcats!
Also run a free-pool for three area schools (for math purposes, of course!) | I have done the bogus brackets and am on his email list. | 98 |
| 127 | Khalil Aboukhaled | 235 | | fezafou | Buffalo, NY | Indiana Univeristy (undergrad). Notre Dame (graduate)- ND basketball fan. | Been reading since Hurricane Katrina. Been in the LRT pool for 5-6 years, just wanna win it. | 146 |
| 185 | Kristy LaPlante | 196 | KristySez | KY | Denver, CO | UNC & Cuse forever. | Random Google Search | 146 |
| 62 | Kristy McCray | 280 | | | San Luis Obispo, CA | USC BA 2002
USC M.Ed 2007
potentially attending Ohio State in fall 2012 for a PhD (i've been accepted! i just need to make a final decision after visiting March 26-28) and I'm already conflicted about how/if I can root for the buckeyes :) | USC undergrad! | 135 |
| 99 | Kyle Bradley | 253 | BracketBlogCBB | | Ohio | Attending Cedarville University in Ohio. Big fan of Purdue Basketball, and a heart for the poor mid/low-major programs throughout the country. | Twitter follower. | 132 |
| 137 | Kyle Cologne | 231 | | | Los Angeles, CA | USC | College | 130 |
| 205 | Larry Caplin | 170 | None | Uncle Larry | Union lake, Michigan | U of Detroit Titans Graduate
Michigan State and Wisconsin fan
Boooooo Michigan |
Wife Becky's uncle | 97 |
| 150 | Laura Caplin | 220 | | | CHICAGO | Johns Hopkins, Stanford *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | Cousin | 110 |
| 80 | Laura Sobchik | 262 | yocreamlvr | | Santa Monica, CA | Notre Dame alum, cyclist US National Paralympic team, ultimate suckage at picking NCAA brackets | blog | 99 |
| 77 | Lauren Fowler | 263 | @ndlauren | NDLauren | Smyrna, GA | Notre Dame Class of 2004 graduate and former ND basketball band member; heading to the Sweet 16 in Atlanta in the South bracket this yar | Found Brendan's blog back during Katrina | 120 |
| 214 | Leanna Loomer | 164 | @oldawnie | oldawnie | Newington CT | Home teams: Western High Cardinals, Western Illinois University Leathernecks, University of Illinois Fighting Illini, University of Massachusetts Minutemen
| I gave birth to him. | 110 |
| 49 | Lief Olsen | 290 | | Roni | Denver, CO | I only watch or follow college basketball during the tournament, in short I know nothing about the teams | Our kids play together since the wives feel the need to socialize and thus I met Brendan. | 134 |
| 134 | Lionel Holmes | 232 | | | | George Mason University (Alum)
University of Virginia (Birth place) | | 142 |
| 72 | Lisa Velte | 272 | LittleBit12 | Major's Girl | Seattle, WA | I love ND, I like KSU and UT, I hate Michigan. | Brendan? Brendan who? | 121 |
| 118 | Logan Pugh | 243 | @loganpugh | | Wytheville, VA | | | 144 |
| 231 | Lorena Kidd | 89 | | | Pasco, WA | Currently studying potty training | Brendan is my dad's LOTR-CFB cross-reference guru. | 142 |
| 223 | Loyabelle Loy | 147 | | | Denver, CO | | Brendan & Becky's 8-month-old daughter. Picks favor teams where either the school or the mascot start with the letter S. Colorado schools & Notre Dame also favored. Ties generally broken by higher seed. | 128 |
| 17 | Loyacita Loy | 310 | | | Denver, CO | | I am Brendan's 2 1/2 year old daughter. I am utterly obsessed with Dora the Explorer. | 0 |
| 222 | Loyette Loy | 148 | | | | | | |
| 38 | Marcus Hill | 296 | @luckyleftyct | Lefty | Berlin, CT | | High School | 144 |
| 68 | Maria Tran | 274 | | | Irvine, CA | UCLA | through Mike Tran | 140 |
| 205 | Mark Gardner | 170 | mpg137 | | Fredericksburg, VA | Penn State | The 8 tries to get it to work and into the poll. | 178 |
| 112 | Mark Jordon | 245 | | | Goshen, NY | | I know Brendan from High School. | 135 |
| 107 | Mark Saviola | 247 | | the joe | Amherst, New York USA | | don't know him, through Bridget Saviola | 149 |
| 19 | Marty West | 308 | kramtsew | | Lansdowne, PA | LaSalle! | Teh interwbz | 134 |
| 191 | Matt Drachenberg | 189 | mdrache | mdrache | Fayetteville, AR | Kansas St (Alum), Wichita St (Hometown pride), Kansas (tolerable in small doses). My little home state, with less than 1% of the population, takes 5% of the tourney bids. Well done, indeed. *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | Reader since the olden days. Proud participant in the Katrina madness. | 155 |
| 90 | Matt Konrad | 257 | noslowallgo | | Minneapolis | Keeper of Bally Basketball and South Dakota State Ballz; alum of the University of Minnesota, which may or may not have a basketball team that may or may not be relegated to the Pac-12 some year for incompetence. Also a hockey fan. | Many years of midmajority. | 146 |
| 62 | Matt Thomsen | 280 | | | | Been in the military for over 8 years | From highschool | 149 |
| 225 | Matt Wiser | 129 | | | Baton Rouge | Rochester '98-'02, LSU '03 to now. I've watched no basketball this year at all. That seemed to work in the past for me. | You and my brother Mike seem to be friends. Or this is all a massive scam to find someone in Louisiana to try to get to attend games for you ;) | 98 |
| 176 | Matthew Leach | 202 | MatthewHLeach | | StL, MO, USA | Harvard alum, Tallahassee native and lifelong FSU fan | Twitter | 156 |
| 49 | McClane Jugler | 290 | @MakJae9 | MakJae | Ogden, UT USA | Attended Weber State. Been a BYU fan since I was a fetus. I like to carry around a black briefcase with nothing inside but ritz crackers. | I'm a twitter follower of @brendanloy | 143 |
| 186 | Melanie Peralta | 195 | | woohooitsmel | los angeles, ca | | | 132 |
| 41 | Melissa Nunez | 294 | | Melissa | Newport Beach, California | UCLA, Notre Dame | Personally know Brendan from Notre Dame | 141 |
| 8 | Michael Holtsberg | 326 | | | Broomall, PA | | Won LRT Women's Pool a few years back. Still waiting on a t-shirt... | 135 |
| 175 | Michael Tran | 203 | | Mike | Irvine, CA | UCLA, Notre Dame | Law School Classmate | 135 |
| 131 | Michael Walsh | 233 | @uscfootballnews | | Irvine, CA | USC '91 | Fellow USC Blogger | 123 |
| 49 | Michael Watkins | 290 | | | Columbus, OH | I'm in High School (sophomore). I love Ohio St. | From my dad. | 133 |
| 32 | Mike Abbott | 299 | | thejuice | Boston, MA | | facebook | 144 |
| 81 | Mike Bonfanti | 261 | mikebonfanti | | Monticello, FL | FSU law grad slogging through life as an attorney with dreams of someday making it big as a food blogger. | Twitter through @KilroyFSU | 144 |
| 71 | Mike D'Amore | 273 | | Dookie | Clarks Summit, PA | UCONN - Class of 2002
Newington High School - Class of 1998 | know him from my high school days in good ole Newington | 135 |
| 28 | Mike Dagen | 303 | | Sarge | Vacaville, Ca | | | 137 |
| 151 | Mike Marchand | 219 | @michianacomedy | Mike Marchand (I'm boring like that.) | South Bend, IN | Notre Dame, class of 2001. As for interesting fodder, I did proclaim on Facebook that anyone who can't beat President Obama's bracket shouldn't fill out brackets, so this is generally when The Brackets humiliate me for my hubris. *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | I knew Brendan for more than a decade before meeting him due to our being on the same long-since-forgotten Notre Dame student online message board. Additionally and by complete coincidence, Brian Neudorff is my stepbrother-in-law. | 147 |
| 190 | Mike McGlynn | 191 | @mnmcglynn | | San Jose, CA | Graduate from the University of Denver and also a big Stanford fan. | Twitter | 135 |
| 98 | Mike Quinn | 254 | mikequinn78 | isuquinndog | Normal, IL | Illinois State '01 | Twitter follower, drew me in with hurricane coverage, met at Valley Tournament a long time ago in STL. | 163 |
| 192 | Mike Wiser | 188 | | Mike | Lansing, MI | USC, 2003
Stanford, 2006
MSU, Current *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | Brendan met me at the same lunch he met Becky. Both remember me being there; neither remembers the other. | 158 |
| 231 | Monique Wiard | 89 | @TABBYMO | tabbymo | South Bend, Indiana | Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. | longtime blog reader | 152 |
| 207 | MT Swanson | 169 | n/a | Hollywood | La Porte, IN | Ball State 1985
Daughter is now at BSU on the Dean's List as a Junior....Son is on the honor roll at LPHS...Mitch Daniels' real name is "Richard" | regular reader since old days | 97 |
| 73 | Nate Evangelista | 270 | psunate77 | psunate77 | PA | Penn State | Twitter | 142 |
| 131 | Nathan Bunton | 233 | mccook2002 | mccook2002 | Spartanburg, SC | USC Upstate alum, University of South Dakota attendee, University of Michigan fan, triple option aficionado. | Twitter friend of Brendan Loy, notorious Panicker. | 160 |
| 209 | Nathan Wurtzel | 168 | @NathanWurtzel | | Chantilly, VA | Rutgers '93 | We served together in 'Nam. | 153 |
| 194 | Nick Howard | 187 | nickhoward | | Indiana | | | 105 |
| 19 | Nick Manzione | 308 | nickwwe233 | | Newington | | Through High School | 175 |
| 32 | Nick Spring | 299 | | nwspring | marion,ia | iowa | | 162 |
| 11 | Owen Randall | 322 | owenrandall | FremontFred | San Francisco, CA | No rooting interest except for my D3 school that lost in the Sweet 16 last week. I'm just a fan of the purity of brackets. | Twitter Follower | 148 |
| 183 | Pat Caplin | 197 | | | West Bloomfield, MI | | admit to being related (Aunt Pat) | 147 |
| 21 | Pat McGriff | 306 | | | Boone, IA USA | | | 162 |
| 104 | Paul Freelend | 251 | paulfreelend | | Jakarta, Indonesia | Attended TCU and University of Nebraska-Omaha. Rooting for Creighton and Colorado State (a.k.a. Nebraska West). US expat since September 2008. Unlike Brendan, was not smart enough to get out of journalism while the getting was good. | Regular blog reader since before Hurricane Katrina. Twitter follower and followee. | 128 |
| 76 | Paul Huffman | 268 | | Uncle Paul | Wethersfield, CT. USA | WHS 1981 | I am Diane's uncle. | 148 |
| 41 | Paul Zak | 294 | | | Gainesville, FL | | | 141 |
| 30 | Peter Timbrell | 301 | pdtimbrell | Pete | Vernon CT | Rockville High, Stonehill College | From a friend | 139 |
| 169 | Puck Swami | 205 | | Puck Swami | Denver | University of Denver | Denver blog reader | 121 |
| 81 | Rachel Dulitz | 261 | @racheldulitz | QuakerHokie | NYC | Went to Penn, root for the Hokies because of an ex. This has been angstful for cfb, suicide inducing for cbb. (We're still friends) My sole goal in this pool is to beat Loyette and Loyacite. #IWillFail | How does one even answer this question? How did I first find Brendan? "Twitter follower" doesn't sufficiently capture our love. | 115 |
| 5 | Rachel Wetherill | 332 | | ditsyquoin | Bluemont VA | I'm a former Bruin who used to look up to classmate Lew Alcindor. | Found the LRT a dozen years ago in a random search and have been entering the pools ever since. This is the year for my first victory. | 163 |
| 87 | Ralph Rotfus | 259 | | | washington, dc | | through Rick Boeckler | 130 |
| 31 | Randy Styles | 300 | | wolfmanbc | South Bend, IN | Bethel 03' IU 10' | | 143 |
| 154 | Rebecca Olgeirson | 217 | @RebeOlgeirson | Not Rebecca Loy | Denver | University of Colorado. Usually terrible at these things. | Friend of Becky from Stroller Strides! | 180 |
| 148 | Rhett Butler | 222 | @rhettlbutler, @tourneytrip | | Las Vegas, NV | Western Michigan University (Go Broncos!), UNLV (Go Rebels!). I also lean MSU, since choosing a side is mandatory when you're born in Michigan, so GO GREEN as well. *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | cause he posted it on twitter, duh! | 177 |
| 60 | Rhett Umphress | 282 | rhettumphress | | Southington, Conn. | Ball State alumnus (B.S. '09, M.A. '11)
Bally Basketball owner
Part-time Indiana Hoosiers fan (when not facing a mid) | Twitter follower/Mid-Majority | 135 |
| 146 | Rick Boeckler | 223 | | Uncle Rick | Silver Spring | I played chess for Fordham University | I know Brendan from a previous life when he was running a gladiator pool in Rome during the reign of Tiberius. | 134 |
| 110 | Robbie Law | 246 | @robbie_law | | Pleasant Grove, UT | BYU | Twitter | 154 |
| 154 | Robert Carlos | 217 | @USCarlos | USCarlos | La Habra, CA | USC class of 2000. I was a student trainer during the dark years of football and the renaissance of baseball. I received a 1998 College World Series ring for my work with the team that year. | I found Brendan on YouTube when I stumbled upon his video of the "Bush Push" from the perspective of the ND student section. | 138 |
| 25 | Robert Dokes | 304 | JerseyDokes | Dokes | Beverly, MA | Gordon College | Friends with Diane and Josh Krause | 147 |
| 22 | Ross Lancaster | 305 | @rosslancaster | | Carrollton, TX | North Texas BA '10, expected MA '12. Roots for North Texas and other mid-majors, especially Sun Belt Conference teams (#SunBeltRepresent). Attended 20 college basketball games this season. | Know Brendan through Twitter and The Mid-Majority | 130 |
| 154 | Russell Caplin | 217 | TriRussC | Russ | Weldon Spring, MO | Michigan State [#1 Seed]
Georgia [Not In] | Cousin | 159 |
| 119 | Ryan Morgan | 242 | rpm002 | | Brookfield | Wisconsin/Drake | | 134 |
| 198 | Ryan Neudorff | 181 | | Ryan | Twin Falls Idaho U.S | | Though my mom and dad | 95 |
| 209 | Sally Petterson | 168 | | | Denver, CO | Michigan State grad 1997, Wolverine-hater, vegetarian, cancer-fighter, Mom of two supremely gifted boys who lives in Stapleton | I know Brendan through my friendship with his beautiful and hilarious wife, Becky. | 98 |
| 209 | Scott Loomer | 168 | | | | | Brendan's Uncle | 113 |
| 151 | Scott Ohm | 219 | | iSportsLinks.com | Coldwater, MI | Case Western Reserve University | Found via iSportsLinks | 144 |
| 94 | Scott Paine | 256 | | | Lebanon, PA | Giant Tarheel Fan | | 181 |
| 28 | Scott Schmidt | 303 | @sosweho | | WEST HOLLYWOOD | Georgetown '95, USC '96 | Formerly known as the BoiFromTroy | 127 |
| 77 | Seth Revels | 263 | | Revelry | Guadalajara Mexico | USC | personally know Brendan from USC | 185 |
| 197 | Shaun Howard | 183 | kingshaundiz | | Seattle | Carolina fan. Grew up in the Seattle-Area. | Twitter follower. | 170 |
| 160 | Shaun Sullivan | 211 | | | | | high school days | 135 |
| 233 | Snooki Uthe | 59 | @AUtheGFT's pet | | Deep in the heart of Texas now | See the men's bracket (I'm too lazy) | Via @juliaflyer and TMM | 137 |
| 169 | Stephanie Johansen | 205 | | | Wallingford, CT | | | 77 |
| 25 | Steve Vivier | 304 | Steve | Vivier | Connecticut | | | 131 |
| 84 | Steven Smith | 260 | @sesmithesq | Smythe | Sherman Oaks, CA | CAL (undergrad) / USC (Law), where I was a classmate of future Brackets maven Rick Neuheisel | Twitter/blogosphere | 140 |
| 227 | Sullie Sullivan | 123 | | | | *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | i don't, but my dad's already had an unhealthy amount of interaction with Brendan for a single lifetime | 140 |
| 215 | Suzanne Ogden Vannatter | 163 | None | SuzyQ | Vancouver, WA | USC graduate, baby! Double Trojan! I know nothing about basketball and based the picks on the fact that my nephew's name is Bayler/Baylor and my brother went to Duke. | I know Brendan from Trojan Hall adventures, and wish he, Becky, and the little Loys lived closer to me now! | 278 |
| 25 | Ted Kaiser | 304 | tek13 | | New Jersey | University of Southern California, die hard Trojan fan. What seed are we? oh wait, we lost to local AAU teams this year. At least we don't have Reeves Nelson...UCLA sucks | remember seeing IrishTrojan blog now twitter | 151 |
| 209 | Terry Corcoran | 168 | CorcoranNYC | | Brooklyn, NY | USC | Twitter | 108 |
| 142 | The Hartranfts | 226 | | Hart | Indianapolis, IN US | Purdue | 10 +/-, Becky's God mother | 152 |
| 1 | Tim Donahue | 378 | | Tim | Louisville, Ky | University of Louisville | | 142 |
| 169 | Tim Huffman | 205 | | | | Diane Krause entering for Tim; his and my mom's e-mail is coming up as invalid. Let me know if there's an issue.
Also, not sure if you know this, but he always picks Uconn to win it all :) | | 153 |
| 199 | Toby, Sasha & Butter Zak Loy | 180 | | | Denver, CO | | We are Brendan and Becky's cats. | 123 |
| 96 | Tom Greca | 255 | | | Newington, CT | NHS '99 CCSU '04 | Went to high school with Brendan | 120 |
| 143 | Tom Keck | 225 | | | | USC '03 | Old-school, former comment regular. | 171 |
| 37 | Tom McGriff | 297 | | | Boone, IA USA | | | 162 |
| 75 | Trisha Neudorff | 269 | mom2twinsplus1 | Trisha | TWIN FALLS | Purdue University, SUNY Brockport, Nazareth College, University of Phoenix (currently attend). I always root against Notre Dame. Always. Now root for Boise State since we live 2 hours away, though I'm only a passing fan... | Met Brendan through my husband, who met him through his blogging of Katrina. I forget how many years that's been! Met he and Becky - pre kids - in a Tim Horton's in Erie, PA once. Regular blog follower and twitter follower. And facebook, too. | 159 |
| 203 | V Wagner | 172 | | | Denver | | | 132 |
| 44 | Vernon Ringle | 293 | | | Kalkaska, Michigan, USA | | google | 141 |
| 129 | Vicki Huffman | 234 | | | | | Also entered by Diane | 148 |
| 58 | Weston Cross | 285 | #NoUseTwitter | | Buffalo, NY | University at Buffalo | | 164 |
| 122 | Will Green | 241 | Zagacious | Zagacious | Chicago | Penn undergrad, Northwestern grad, Gonzaga fan at heart | His Twitterverse omnipresence | 148 |
| 18 | Yvette Alice Webster | 309 | | the stomach | Round Hill, VA USA | *ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET* | Because Rachel makes me do this every year.
I do not know a thing about basketball & I select by (1)mascots - prefer birds & animals to anything "human." (2) Also may select by attractive team colors if it both teams are birds or animals or (3)and/or by team state location (ultra-conservative state laws may prejudice my selection against that team, for example) (4)toss of a coin | 151 |
| 9 | Zach Bloxham | 324 | @zbloxham | | Spokane WA | Go BYU! Go Zags! GaelTears! | | 120 |
