Sunday results and standings after Round Two

All right, it's Sweet 16 time. Sadly, 48 of the tournament's 63 games are over. It goes by too quickly. Any sporting event that more or demands one to sit on the couch, eating Hint O'Crack Tostitos and drinking quarts of beer will always, I'm afraid, come around too infrequently and fly by too quickly. Such is the sad, fleeting bird of life, darkening the souls of those of us who live with a constant presentiment of loss. Still, b'gad, there're 15 games left, plenty of snacks yet to be consumed, and I understand they're still bottling spirits and plan to offer them for sale to the private citizenry, so perhaps the glass, metaphorically speaking, is really still half full. Life is beautiful, I guess.

Not so my picks, which, frankly, suck. Nothing at all beautiful about them. Most of you seem to be doing a damn sight better. Nuts to you. There weren't any tremendous upsets on Sunday, but there were some good games. When is the last time, I wonder, when there weren't any double digit seeds in the Sweet 16? If only there were a librarian handy, we'd know. Everybody picked Florida, almost everybody picked Kansas and Oregon. Slightly fewer (17/26) thought Memphis would make it this far. Half of us (you, not me) picked Tennessee over Virginia. 8 got USC right - (Maggi, Gena, Dana, Calvino, Henry, Dayle, Rosalie and Willow). 9 got Southern Illinois - (favs, Alexander, Mike, Scott, DaveW, Matt, Dayle, Sarah, John). Only five picked UNLV - (Dana, Scott, Bill, DaveW and DavidP). All in all, a fairly even distribution of geniosity (geniusness? genitude? what's the word I want here?)

Sunday Special Super Genius Guys are Scott (again), Dayle and DaveW. These boys picked an obnoxious 7 of 8 games right. That's astonishing, says me. Especially that lanky Milwaukeean, Scott Silet. Do you realize that he picked 13 of 16 Round Two games correctly? No surprise then that he's spanking the field. Someone needs to rise up and smite him, verily. On the other hand, since I can't win, do I really care who does? I might go with sour grapes as the theme of my 2007 pool participation.

Anyway, here's where we stand after two rounds:


-------------Sat----Sun---Round Two Total

1.	Silet	42	14	56
2.	Dayle	37	14	51
3.	Bill	38	12	50
3.	Matt	38	12	50
5.	DavidP	39	10	49
5.	Favs	39	10	49
5.	John	37	12	49
8.	Gena	35	12	47
8.	Ruth	37	10	47
10.	Kate	40	6	46
10.	Steve	38	8	46
12.	Henry	38	6	44
13.	Hank	37	6	43
14.	Dana	32	10	42
14.	Dykes	34	8	42
14.	Knott	34	8	42
17.	Calvino	35	6	41
17.	DaveW	27	14	41
19.	Sarah	30	10	40
20.	Mike	29	10	39
21.	Liz	32	6	38
22.	Maggi	26	10	36
23.	Alexander	25	8	33
24.	Acy	26	6	32
24.	Rosalie	22	10	32
26.	Willow	21	8	29

Later this week I'll send out a chart of who has picked whom for the Thursday and Friday games. I probably ought to do a little work now.

Yours in Poolishness,

CAK