Thursday, March 16, 2023

The Hopski is LIVE and Dancing

2023 March Madness is off and running, well that is unless you are from Virginia as BOTH West Virginia and Virginia have been sent packing early.... along with this year's first bracket busted entry:  Kamran Koochekzadeh's Long Live Spartacus!  That was about all of 2 hours of Hopski madness Kamran - but have no fear, the Hopski 2nd Chance Dance is but 4 days away!

22:05 EST UPDATE:  Had to update this after being away this afternoon coaching and missed last minute of Princeton's upset of Arizona!!  Wow - seriously??  A great win for the Tigers - aka best since 1996 for sure (outing defending champ UCLA in Indy with me on the 6th row in tears!).

8 Entries gained Princeton's 13 point bonus gift - Hopski kudos to each:

AarUpThere (Aaron Jackson)

Better Call Ball, Bing Bang Ow AND Charles Barkley is FAT (Bill Doran with a HAT TRICK!!!)

King Slayer (Keir Novesky)

Running REBel #1 (Palo Alto's Rob Babcock)

Shead Show (Peter Pell - need to check and see if he and Keir are entering off of the same tip site again!)

Meanwhile - 61 entries picked AZ into the Championship game and 11 lucky entrants took an extra 2 hours to join Kamran in the Busted Bracket scrapheap!!


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So - kudos to the Furman Paladins and JP Pegues for delivering 52 of this year's 139 Hopski entries 9 underdog bonus points with the upset.



If you are receiving this but did not enter this year - no worries - I will update mail chimp late tonight or Friday morning with this year entrants.  On this note though - seriously - TOO BUSY TO JOIN THE HOPSKI???

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INDEED YOU ARE!!!  Better luck with that schedule next year Carole!

As mentioned, we have 139 entries but I have not yet received 139 payments and/or confirmations of donation made to Polish Humanitarian Action!  Thus, get those payments in NOW!!  The entry fee remains at $30!! Payment via paypal (markhopski@yahoo.com), venmo (@Mark-Hopper-27) or zelle (3175233988).

I should be able to get an update out Friday morning before heading to PISMO beach


for a hoops tournament this weekend and coaching my daughters' team, so be patient with the Commish this weekend as heck, I am just hoping to be able to watch a few games, let alone post cleverish updates!!  Unfortunately - Pismo will not be resembling the photo this weekend as it is supposed to be around 50 degrees and potential for rain - ugh!!!

Enjoy the games and the Hopski!




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