1st OFF, PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE
YOUR ENTRY NAME IN THE MAIN POOL!!!!
Let's start by first mentioning the overreaction by Gator head coach Todd Golden last weekend to a very poor viewing angle of the Spaniard player NOT taking any kind of a swing at the FL player. Not saying I would be above such a reaction myself, but Golden just lost it - clearly forgetting to channel his inner Brad Stevens......
Todd Golden in reaction to ref explaining to him the double technical call following the scuffle between Alvaro Folgueiras and Alex Condon: “Are you fucking kidding me? You mother fucker, man.”You want some of this??
The final 10 seconds of the game showed coaching composure under pressure by Iowa's Ben McCullum when, with each coach facing a similar defensive situation (ahead by 1 or 2, other team with ball out opposite end and single digit seconds to go) - McCullum keeps the ball in front on the indbounds while Golden goes aggressive and immediately upon inbound Iowa has a 3 on 2 for the victory. Golden with a big and well deserved lesson there!! LOVED IT!!
ON TO THE PRE-SWEET 16 LEADERBOARDYes - as an added bonus the old +/- movement within the Hopski standings has been added to the Leaderboard!!!
Wish I Was In Sitges (Jay Baum, SF Bay area resident and Cal Berkeley alum) stretched his round 1 lead a bit further in Rd 2 and takes an 8 point lead on the Hopski field into the Sweet 16. Jay leads the pool in dog points, pick %, scoring, and had picked 14 of the Sweet 16. Just an all around impressive first weekend for sure!
Taco Trader (David Miller of Muscle Shoals, AL - son of Steven Miller - my boss while at IU) is another former champion that is contending this year and slipped to 2nd with his 12/16 effort.
Moving 2 places into 3rd is Gone Zagging (Matt Powell - no - NOT that Matt Powell but another Matt Powell that I know little about aside from he is not THAT Matt Powell that many of us know from Indiana days!).
Iowa's knockout of defending champion Florida was certainly a knock-out as well of quite a few Hopski entrants, as 27 entries had Florida into the championship game and 13 had them picked as Champion. Adios to those folks. Aside from the Gators, 3 entries had Gonzaga picked and single entries had picked Wisconsin, Virginia and North Carolina to win the title this year - so a total of 19 entries are OUT (pretty certain anyway that they cannot win the thing!!!).
Kudos to 5 entries that picked Iowa into the Sweet 16 - a shout out to A Modern DAy Chambo, Mean, Mean Stride (Jeff Chamberlain), Kelly 2 Much Time on My Hands #surgery (Kelly Peterson - get well soon BTW!), March Crabness (Chris Miller), Triple Yaxel (Susan Grundberg and oh I LOVE THE ENTRY NAME!!) and finally Trump & Iran Up Uncle Hop's Bar Tab (nice work by my Godson - Elliott Achepohl).
At the bottom of the standings - Wall-E Szczerbiak (Aaron Jackson) has taken the Toilet Bowl lead from The Russian Judge (Mark Iantosca by the slimmest of 1 point margins, though the odds on favorite for this year's Toilet Bowl appears to be DBAR (Deb Baratz) - who has set a low bar of 70 max points for her entry, already guaranteeing a no toilet bowl chance for 70 entrants!! DBar as well as Niparoo 10 both managed to pick just 4 of the sweet 16 - OUCH!!
It is time to get to bed here - but below is a full Leaderboard Format of the entire pool standings along with max, min, average and STD DEVIATION no less!!! Hopefully you do not have to look too far down to find your entry!!!
Adios - The Commish
Oh and why not toss in our historical pool stats by year as well:
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