Here are the final standings for the Outsports/ESPN Tournament Challenge. Thanks to all who played!!!


Le Champion!!!

sportin life 1110
Way to go Sportinlife!!! Nice bracketeering!!!


First Runner Up

Chicago UW Fan 1090
In the event Sportinlife is unable to fulfill his duties as champion, or if some questionable photos surface, you will be crowned champion!! Nice job!


Bronze Medal

DClaremont entry 1080*
Perhaps if we discover a French judge was in cahoots with another and gypped you out of some points you may move up. But I think you'd best settle for third! Great going!!


The Rest of Us Schlubs

USC Trojan110 1060

Berkhouse Entry 1040*

Dick Vitale Is A Moron 1000

lescavage Entry 990*

Jersey njred 970*

Cross Entry 920
Rex's Insanity 920*

Duck Boy 910

SJ TexasEX 900

Iowa State Cyclones 890
Go LaTech Bulldogs 890*
LA SportsGyMarc 890*

New York TwinsFan 880*

Portland musicalnuke 870
Zeno Rookies 870*
Cowboys HskrFan 870*

NEOhio osufan 860

Duke Fan 4 $$ 850
Riley Entry 850*
Chicago Jdog 850*

Martin jsm 840*

Spinosa spin70 830

DC BballDC 820
sparty on 820
San Fran Joey Joe Joe 820*

On Court GoMonica 810
Ramsfanxx 810*
Yellow Muffins 810*

NYC Skeletons 790*

Wichita Itsplaytym 780
Theo 780

Go Stanford 770
Arizona Devilsfan 770
MiamiDr 770

Go Terps pat125 760
Denis's Definites 760*

DC SportsNut 750
Quaker Fan 750
Quinn in DC 750
Stickney Entry 750*
California Uclaute 750*
Durham, NC Ian at Duke 750*

Housman Entry 740

Shore Entry 730
omaha huskerjock 730*

MikeyB 710
Manhattan PS151 710

Amsterdam Windmills 700

Palm Springs Schwenk 690
zeigler Entry 690*

Kobe's Boobirds 680
Bronxville B Man 680
Jim@ Outsports 680

Gamecock 650
Bike Jocks 650*
SCU Top Fan Entry 650*

McNamara Entry 640
Wichita Jayhawks 640*

P CC 630*

Scottttt 620*

Gonzaga George 610
Goyanks4868/ dukerepeats 610
UCLA Jono 610
Garrett Entry 610*

Pittsburgh David 600
Oswalt Entry 600
AZ Cat 600

MunsonMan 580*

Bloomington IUFan1975 570
PurdueFan's Entry 570
Carey Entry 570*
Raleigh RobGinNC 570*

Iowa City GymDog 550

chicago clueless 540*

Breesboys Flyin Illini 530
Indy Other Daryl 530*

faydman 520

DC DCBucky 510

Tampa Ribbie 500*

Chicago Rian 490*
LA jfcubfan 490*

Sparty 420*

We had 19 players correctly predict Maryland would win it all. Granted many of us took decidedly odd ways to reach that conclusion but these are the few, the proud:

DClaremont
Berkhouse
lescavage
Jersey njred
Rex's Insanity
LA SportsGyMarc
NY TwinsFan
Chicago JDog
NYC Skeletons
Sportinlife
ChicagoUWFan
USC Trojan
Dick Vitale is a Moron
Cross Entry
SJ TexasEX
NE Ohio osufan
Spinosa spin70
sparty on
Go Stanford

ARRRGGH!

Just one place away from being on the medal podium. Can't the judges award one more medal? I can share...

Do I get a date with Juan Dixon as first prize?...platonic of course!

Oh..and no photos please, wouldn't want to blow his chances to get a good spot in the nba and lots of ad revenue. However I wont swear not to blow other things..

[ April 02, 2002: Message edited by: sportinlife ]

I am just glad to get out of the cellar (sort of). Congrats to the winners!!!

Also a BIG THANKS to george for putting the whole thing together!

Excellent job pal!

Great job as usual, George (not that we expected anything less, of course )....btw, in reviewing your list (I won't even mention where I finished in the standings thanks to Gonzaga's early outster ) it looks like the team named "Go Terps" did NOT pick Maryland to win the title?!....that seems odd to me but big kudos to sportinlife -- well done guy!

Aw shucks guys you got me blushing!

Anyway, I live to service, er, I mean serve. I really enjoy running these things, so no thanks are necessary. But if you insist...

[quote] it looks like the team named "Go Terps" did NOT pick Maryland to win the title?!....that seems odd to me

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Gamecock, I'm the odd one here. I'm a pretty big Terps fan, but I thought Kansas would beat Maryland in the semifinals. It cost me 280 points, but it was worth it. Congratulations to my fellow Terrapin fan sportinlife for winning the pool and having more faith in the Terps! And thanks to George for running the pool! Doing the pool on the Internet was definitely the way to go.

Now what I want to know is who the Go Stanford person that picked Maryland to win is.

[ April 03, 2002: Message edited by: pat125 ]

Hey pat125 it was in the numbers (numerology) two thousand second game in two thousand second year.

Terrapins are slow as everyone knows.

Seriously though, I simply went with the odds, and a vague memory of what has happened in past years, with respect to most of the other teams; and took Maryland to win it all based on blind faith and a desperate desire to see them finally do it.

Not PURE luck, but certainly nothing magical.

Ugh! Last place?...no freekin way!

Too funny,

I stopped checking after the first round.

[quote]Originally posted by pat125:

Now what I want to know is who the Go Stanford person that picked Maryland to win is.

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That would be one of our fearless leaders Cyd!!!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by George_vikingfan:
[QB]

That would be one of our fearless leaders Cyd!!!


George, did Cyd give you permission to reveal his "hidden" identity?....it was a great contest anyway....and kudos to pat125 to having the cajones to admit he didn't pick his Terps to win it all....I guess Pat wasn't too disappointed to see Kansas lose in the semis, though

I, too, picked the Jayhawks to win it all (for about the fifth time in the last decade I think) and one of these years I will be proven correct....but in the meantime I'll continue to enjoy watchin these cute student-athletes runnin around playin in their shorts.

I had Kansas going all the way, too. I'm just so relieved to have climbed out of the cellar in the final standings that I FEEL like I won!

Big round of applause for the champ Sportin life, UW fan and DClaremont. It was a close one. With the number of guys entering this challenge, you are the very best.

Thanks to George_vikingfan for another fun challenge.

What was I gonna do, pick Stanford to win it all? I may be a loyal fan, but I'm not THAT loyal.

And now that Jacobsen and Borchardt may be leaving - ugh.