Thursday, March 21, 2019

2019 Hopski Is Up & Running, Day 1 Complete

Ja Morant - yes - the now household name led the Murray State Racers to a Trumpian HUGE victory over Marquette today - delivering a triple double in the box score and a healthy 8 points to the 97 entries picking this upset!!





Next up for the Racers.......the Florida State Seminoles on Saturday!!  Only 20 entries stuck with Murray State to get that upset while 95 have FSU moving to the Sweet 16!



Yes you too can see these types of stats by clicking on the Reports tab and then clicking on Tournament Summary report.  There you can see by round how many entries have picked each team!



Day 1 is in the books and please do not get used to updates :)  It did not take long to blemish the entire Hopski field as the best picking today was 15 for 16 from TEAM MO (Mike Modena - EY NYC Partner and Fairfield U alum - not a lot of March Madness there over the years) and MARCH SADNESS (Stan Kwitnieski, ex-Warsaw expat now chaperoning - aka stalking - his daughters' dates in Washington).  



These are our leaders - but special kudos as well to the WAVERLY STREET GATOR entry (Jacob Kivett - a Gator now living in Palo Alto and working with me at Cognicor!!  Shhh - don't spread the word but we did have a meeting today at a bar with lots of tvs!!) which also went 15 for 16 today!



In closing - get those payments in as there is a new COLLECTIONS SHERIFF in town - Jack Bell (Noble Rot owner and long-time mustard mock turtle neck wearing friend from Budapest days of '90s, wayyyyyyyy to many bruising battles on the court and at Oktoberfest bumper cars).  He WILL NOT be so tolerant as the Commish.  




A HUGE thank you to Jack and on that note - take note of a charity which he devotes a LOT of his time - NOURISH NOW at https://nourishnow.org/  Nourish Now strives to serve diverse populations through our Food For Families and Nonprofit Network programs in Montgomery County, Maryland, providing food assistance for people of all ages and living situations.

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