Good Golly It's Guinness & Whip Cream!!

After significant investigative work, I now know where my IU roommate (Right Lane Wags - Jeff Wagoner) found his inspiration for Guinness Whip Cream beers - it's right here!  Closest thing he could come to re-create the bed time whispers that I threw his way back in the day I guess!

Wags' stout fettish has been the catalyst so far for his son Joe Wagoner's entry Guinness & Whip Cream to move to the top of the Hopski Leaderboard!! Joe's UConn / Gonzaga picks on Thursday night were enough to nudge into the #1 spot!

Silicon Bankin' It Into the Valley from David Lowery also matched young Joe's UConn/Zags combo to move from 3rd to 2nd on the podium, followed by a 1 spot move up from Big Ten March Sadness (The Sloth - Tom Utroske) as well.

SIX entries managed to get 3 of the 4 winners last night.... Hopski kudos for this to:

• 5th place Princess of Darkness #12 (ex-Warsaw expat Mark Conlon of Minneapolis)
• 8th place Just Tall....eh? (Chicagoan Dave Foster, everyone's favorite Boiler though a grad of Indiana - I mean seriously??!!  On a positive note - we were able to take him off suicide watch this past Tuesday after the Boilers early exit)
• 14th place Zero Ducks Given from Adidas man and LA Resident Nick Adam, also the nephew of the neverending WTNY Jack Bell of Budapest fame!)
• 18th place Kencik (Kent Holding of Warsaw - long-time CE&E expat)
• 69th place J Petermans Favorite Shirt (Kelly Peterson.....?????)
• 69th place 36th Anniversary (Julie Grundberg - last year's Toilet Bowl winner and 20 year + Hopski veteran);

Though only 1 entry picked the Elite Owls of Florida Atlantic into the Elite 8 - the Slackerufl entry from Thomas Stevens, moving it from 51st to 18th!

LEAVE THOSE NAMES BE......

A quick note on the topic of entry names...... DO NOT CHANGE YOUR ENTRY NAMES ONCE POOL HAS STARTED!  The moment of creativity and inspiration has pass (I am talking to you NoHorseInDaRace, Brian Gimotty of Michigan - and yep - agree that the new entry name is far better but too late) and Andrew Palka (Sad Hoosier).  Name changes mess with the internal analytics program my reporting team utilizes to run The Hopski and they get angry at any change to the system.   SO - please do not change entry names.

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ENTRY NAME OF 2023!!!!!!

We have some really good ones this year - so vote either on the pool message board or via email to me.  Limit yourself to 2 entry name votes and also you cannot vote for your own (The Susan Rule!).

A few of my favorites include:

• Silicon Bankin' It Into the Valley (in the news with a hoops twist!);
• Zero Ducks Given (who gives a duck really anyway!);
• My Bracket Called for Floppin (well done!);
• Woody - I've Got a Diamond Cutter (what can I say);
• Better Call Ball (awesome final season);
• You Can Dance If You Want To (surprised this is the first time for this awesome song reference!);
• Grady Dick In A Box (love that SNL ski);
• The Philly Phatty & Kermit the Frog (wtf??);
• No 3 & No D (Bill - are you still playing??!!);

THE GREENE JAGUARS - 2023 6TH GRADE LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!!!

I cannot post a picture but my girls won their league championship yesterday!!  They took year's off the Commish's life by blowing an 11 point 3rd quarter lead as our Ralston opponent had a player nail 4 threes in the final 7 minutes.  Luckily Ralston's 3 point heave at the end was air mailed and the Greene Jaguars won by 2!!!!  WHEW!!!