Monday, March 28, 2011

Leuthold Memorial Tournament - Elite Eight, Day Two

Hey all! The Elite Eight is over, and the Final Four is upon us. And what a Final Four it will be! Before we get to that, how about some standings?? (Reminder, the standings read as follows: ranking, name, total points, points this round, movement since last round and bonuses, if any, remaining)


1 Andrew Logan          1238    80             --
2 Kevin Hunt              1237    100           +6
3 Brandon Lanquist     1230    80             --
4 Eric Bookmyer         1227    80             +2
5 Jake Kempf              1224    76             --
6 Drew Curth              1222    72             -3
7 Matt Fehr                 1220    80             --
8 Kevin Faigle             1216    64             -2
9 Lauren Faine            1210    80             --
10 Matt Barnes            1203    84            +3
11 Matt Rader             1199    84             +5
12 Wells Faine             1194    72             -1
12 John Gray               1194    68             -2   (Champ – UConn)
14 John Montgomery   1193    76            +1
15 Jake Young             1192    72             -3
16 Anthony Tynan      1186    76             +1
17 Doug Steiner          1185    76             +1
18 Tony Falk               1179    60             -5
18 Rachel Hoops         1179    72            +1
20 Jeff Fitzwater          1175    84            +1
21 Mallory Myers         1165    76            +1
22 Justin Reichley        1160    64             -2
23 Bethany Green       1151    80             --
24 Anne Seiler             1140    76             --
25 Todd Schleucher    1100    72             --
26 Ryan Calhoun         1037    60             --

First, Congrats to Andrew Logan for leading during the entire Elite Eight. Possibly a bigger congrats, though, to Coach Kevin Hunt. With Kentucky as a 15 and VCU as 10 (higher than anyone else) KHunt posted a hefty 100 and sits 1 point out of the lead.

Kevin and I talked earlier and figured he would need a Kansas over Kentucky championship in order to win this tournament, but we were vastly mistaken. A VCU win over Butler in the Final Four will go a long way toward bringing Coach the title.

Not a great day for John Gray, falling out of the Top 10 only a day after getting there, but a look at his line shows that it wasn't so bad. John is the only person who can still get a bonus in this tournament, and that's with UConn as the national champion. So, John won't win without that happening, but I bet not too many people are betting against it right now.

I'm going to do a Final Four preview this week and, in that, I hope to reveal who still has a chance to win the tournament.

1 comment:

John Champion Gray said...

My strategy of always picking against the SEC seems to have severely held me back. Connecticut got my back though!