| Entry Name | Nickname | Location | School Affiliation(s) | How you know Brendan | Other info | Score |
| A.J. St. John | A.J. | Los Angeles, CA | USC c/o 2004 | a not-so-regular reader since 2005 | | 256 |
| Abby Smagula | | Boston, MA | Villanova '04 | fiancee of brian newbold | | 182 |
| Alasdair Burton | Alasdair | Glendale, CA | UCLA (I'm a Mainframe Computer Geek for UCLA Med Ctr) - and my wife teaches Medecine part-time for USC's Medical School (she's an alumna of USC Medical School and OB/Gyn Residency) | Through his blogging ... | I couldn't find a current direct path to you via email, so ...
Is Elder Loy OK ?
It is already after noon on St. Paddy's Day, and *nothing* ! Zip ! Bupkiss ! about that,a nd green beer, etc on the LRT ???
Which Seal (from Revelations) just got broken ?
OH - and the picks were algorithmic, not based upon *any* knowledge or bias ! (grin) | 91 |
| Alex Talcott | BigGreenIrish | Chicago, IL | Dartmouth College '04, Notre Dame Law School '07 | Law school classmate | Fave team other than Dartmouth and ND: St. John's | 190 |
| Alexander Nguyen | Alex | San Diego, Ca | USC | From Daily Trojan | First time entering the NCAA Pool, former DT AED. | 199 |
| Aliasger Amin | princeali2k | Arlington, VA | | Found this pool via google | Syracuse | 211 |
| Alison Flipse Vargas | Flipse | Los Angeles, CA | University of Southern California - 2003
Pepperdine University - M.A. - 2008; Psy.D. expected 2012
| I met Becky at one of the USC orientations on the east coast. Brendan I only know vaguely. | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - | 265 |
| Amir Sadaghiani | Amir | Port Jervis, NY | Bucknell University 1999-2003
University of Notre Dame Law School 2003-2006 | Personally know Brendan from Notre Dame Law School | The Bison will be back next year!!! | 256 |
| Amy Greca | | newington, ct | | tom greca | i don't know anything about basketball and i don't care :) | 248 |
| Andrew Hunter | | Columbia, MO | U of Missouri | | I took a bowling class with Paul O'Liney in college. | 248 |
| Andrew Leyden | PenguinSix | USA | Notre Dame, Illinois | blog | meh | 266 |
| Andrew Long | AMLTrojan | Vienna, VA | USC | Becky told me about his huge peter and I've been a fan ever since. | Trojans | 289 |
| Arash Markazi | | | USC | Friend, Classmate | | 197 |
| Beatriz Duque Long | Bea | Vienna, VA | Cal State Fullerton -- Go Titans! | My husband knows him, and he is making me sign up to the pool. | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - Go Titans! | 131 |
| Becky Loy | Becky | Denver, CO | USC, ASU, ND, U of R, UB, UCSB | I accept his bodily fluids. | I eat bagels for breakfast. | 202 |
| Benjamin Rumery | Ben | Dayton, Maine/USA | Stonehill College class of 2011 | Danny Pilz referred me to this pool | | 177 |
| Billy Huffman | | Wethersfield Ct/USA | | Brendan's mom used to babysit me. | | 162 |
| Bob Lutts | | W. Hartford, CT | | I'm a friend of his Dad | | 284 |
| Bonnie Stone | Bonnie | Newington, CT | Newington High School | I have known Brendan since he was a freshman in high school running the school newspaper, Scribe. | | 163 |
| Brandon Minich | B. Minich | Frederick, MD | IUP (see NIT bracket). They are in the Elite Eight now!!!!! | | | 230 |
| Brendan Loy | Daddy | Denver, CO | Newington High School, USC, Notre Dame | I am Brendan. | I am tall. | 265 |
| Brenden Roche | | Hartford ct | Newington high 99
bentley college 03
ccsu (masters) 09
| Been participating since middle school | | 238 |
| Brian Kiolbasa | BK | Chicago, IL | ASU '03; NDLS '07 | | 2005 WINNER | 206 |
| Brian Neudorff | | Rochester, NY | Purdue University 1996-2001 | Like many through the Irish Trojan Blog after Katrina. Brendan a Weather Geek and myself a Meteorologist thought his weather discussion and tropical weather info as well as his take on Katrina were spot on. Became an instant fan. Later on one of his many travels to Buffalo, physically met him and his wife in Erie pre-loyette. | Wasn't an Athlete but traveled the the Purdue Basketball team 1997-2000 as part of the Boiler Brass Basketball band. That is an experience being part of the team as they travel in the tourney. Seen a lot of great games and teams. It's an exciting atmosphere. | 237 |
| Brian Newbold | | Boston, MA | NHS 99, Villanova '03 | I think I launched rockets with him in 5th grade at john wallace. | i'm kind of a big deal | 206 |
| Bridget Saviola | | Buffalo, NY | | | | 214 |
| Cam McLachlan | L A Confidential | Rancho Palos Verdes CA | USC Cornell Yale Northeastern Texas
- Children's schools | Zaks | Universities with great nicknames
1. Presbyterian - the Blue Stockings
2. Whitman - the Missionaries | 234 |
| Carol LaPlante | Carol | Cheektowaga, NY | SHA, LeMoyne College, Buffalo State | Kristy | | 291 |
| Carolyn Blessing | internatlgirl | New York, New York | ND Undergrad '04, ND Law School '08 | ND Law School | | 229 |
| Casey Zak | The Mad Dribbler | Rochester, NY | University of Rochester
University of Southern California | I derived the existence of Brendan using tensor calculus. | Drop the f***ing flower! | 272 |
| Cath Doo | cdoo | mishawaka | | regular reader since the hurricanes | | 189 |
| Charles Fenwick | clfenwi | Jacksonville, Fl | | | | 189 |
| Charles Franz | | baltimore, md | Loyola College Md
Notre Dame Law
Boston University | law school | | 187 |
| Chris Bravo | cdbavg400 | Berkeley, CA | USC c/o 2003, Arizona Alum as well, currently at Cal for a Ph.D. in Ancient History. | found his blog way back in 2004, searching for videos of the "Bush Push" game. | | 233 |
| Chris Evans | Doc | Haining, China | USC | Long-time blog reader. | Again, I suck at this and it's only Brendan's constant nagging that gets me to enter ;). That and needing to enter a pool to maintain my guy cred. | 240 |
| Cody Groeber | Cody | Charleston, SC | ND, Furman | ND LAW | | 245 |
| Colin Pedicini | | Fort Worth, TX | Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Class of 2012
New Mexico State University, Class of 2009 | Regular reader since Hurricane Katrina | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - | 236 |
| Colleen Duggan | | Newington, CT | Newington High School
St Paul Catholic High School
Sacred Heart University
Old Dominion University | I know Brendan from high school | ct 2001 state champs (St Paul)
played college basketball at Sacred Heart from 01-05
coached college basketball at Trinity College from 05-07 | 174 |
| Conor Sullivan | Conor | Newington, CT | NHS
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Many years of being involved | I am in love with march madness | 184 |
| Corabelle Loomer Loy | Bella | Newington CT | H.E.A.R.T. | met him twice (i ran away both times) | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - Panthers, Tigers, Wildcats (etc.) | 111 |
| Courtney Tawresey | Courtney | Colorado Springs, CO | alum of Cornell and Notre Dame | Went to law school together, both work in Denver | swam at Cornell, bleed blue and gold, got third place in this thing once without doing any research and just picking the teams I liked ;) | 257 |
| Crystal Franz | | Baltimore, MD | Husband went to Notre Dame Law School | My husband, Charles Franz, went to ND Law with Brendan. | I'm a hometown fan, so MD is my favorite team. | 184 |
| Curtis Bish | Best Bets Guess | Mechanicsburg, PA | Yor College of PA graduate with a degree in accounting in 1987. | Reffered to the pool by I Sports Links .com | Big Indiana fan but this year I'm a Kansas fan since IU is not in the tournament. | 241 |
| Dan Dinunzio | Dan | Newington, CT | Newington High School Class of 2008
University of Connecticut
| online blog | | 222 |
| Dan Ginsburg | DanG82 | Chicago, IL | University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005) | iSportsLinks.com | | 253 |
| Dan Port | DanPort | Los Angeles, CA | USC class of 2004
Bennington College 2006 (MFA) | I met Brendan at the Daily Trojan and have played in this since then. | I'm originally from Wisconsin so I root for Marquette and the Wisconsin Badgers. | 250 |
| Danny Pilz | | Newington CT/North Easton MA | Newington High School, Stonehilll College | Through my Dad | Ashamed Uconn Fan | 188 |
| Darrell Kindle | Strong2theEnd | Miamisburg, oh | | found through iSportsLink.com | | 246 |
| Dave Martins | slbdmb20 | Naugatuck, CT | Newington High School '00
CCSU '02-'05 | I've known Brendan since middle school eons ago. | UConn fan since '93 | 209 |
| Dave Roberts | Dave | Okinawa, Japan | Georgetown, Notre Dame | met at Notre Dame Law School | | 243 |
| David Greggs | supdav65 | roanoke | | | | 217 |
| David Kreutz | David K. | Seattle, WA | UW, USC | Freshman year roomate | | 206 |
| David Mathues | David Mathues | Chicago | Notre Dame | Notre Dame | | 238 |
| Deanna Schneider | deannagabriel | astoria, QUEENS, NYC | SHA class of 99
niagara university (2003)
columbia university (JUST graduated! feb 2010!) | uhm....becky's facebook comment saying everyone should fill it out. i have 5 other brackets going, so why not add this one to the mix too! | uhm, ill be at all the games held in buffalo! two years ago i came in both first AND second in one of my pools. thankfully, the pool that was worth the most money. i dont expect to repeat that feat ever again, but it is a little bit my claim to fame! :) | 186 |
| Derek McDonald | Dmack5580 | Newington, CT | CCSU
Newington High School | | | 216 |
| Diane Krause | | New Britain, CT | | friend of his since childhood | | 138 |
| Don LaPlante | Don | Buffalo NY | LeMoyne College, a Syacuse D-2 school that "humiliated" Syracuse Univ just days before their 1st game 72-69 per the Buffalo News | Thru Kristy | UNC Chapel Hill - bummer they are not in the NCAA's | 223 |
| Don Millirones | Moe Green | Westerville, OH | n/a | isportslinks.com | just want to play in a contest | 226 |
| Doug Mataconis | dmataconis | Warrenton, Virginia | Rutgers `90
George Mason Law `93 | Regular blog reader since 2005 | | 258 |
| Earl Baker | OC Domer | Orange County, California | ND '86 | Spring Break, Cancun, 2002 | Visit the OC Domer blog: http://ocdomer.blogspot.com | 214 |
| Elizabeth McGrath | EM | South Bend, Indiana/USA | Lawrence North High School 88-92, Indianapolis; Purdue University 92-96: Notre Dame 04-07 | Notre Dame Law School | | 245 |
| Emily Wood | Emily | Marshall, TX | ND '99, '00, '07 Law | law school | | 243 |
| Esteban Coca | Steb #2 | Bartlesville, OK | NMSU | | | 214 |
| Fred Silva | PtR | San Antonio | Dartmouth College '04 | was referred to this pool by Alex Talcott; | I write for a Spurs blog called Pounding the Rock. | 253 |
| Gary Kirby | gahrie | | | | | 199 |
| Gavin Fahey | Beano526 | Elmhurst,IL | York Community High School, Notre Dame '14 | Regular Blog Reader since August '09 | Favorite Team: Notre Dame (It better be. I'm a third generation domer.) | 170 |
| Geoff Brookes | Geoff | New Britain, CT | UConn (Newington High School) | High School | Connecticut Huskies!!! Don't lose too early in the NIT this year...sad... | 202 |
| Gil Gertsen | Gil | Park Ridge, NJ | park ridge high | | | 179 |
| Ginny Zak | MumZ | AZ | | | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - | 157 |
| Greg Kagan | Greg | Newington, CT | Nova Southeastern University | Through my brother Matt Kagan. | | 196 |
| Helen Cochran | | Chester, MD USA | | don't know him, but was referred to this pool by Rick Boeckler | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - | 195 |
| Ian Auzenne | The Man | Princeton, New Jersey, by way of Lafayette, Louisiana | Princeton University, Class of 2010 | Learned about the tournament in 2007 when former WPRB-FM broadcast partner Barry Caro joined that year's Facebook pool group. | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - This is Ian Auzenne's fourth year participating in the Living Room Times Pool. He finished tied for 148th place last year, a marked improvement from his 216th place finish in 2008. Ian's best finish was in his rookie year of 2007, when he debuted with a 50th-place finish. A senior at Princeton University, Ian is a sportscaster at WPRB-FM and is washed up whiffleballer. | 250 |
| Jason Cowans | Big J | Chandler, AZ | Univ of AZ | Know from AZ | | 196 |
| Jason Gilman | axodys | Spokane, WA | Gonzaga, WSU | | | 243 |
| Jason Rogers | | Atlanta, GA | UNC - Undergrad
Seton Hall - Law | Regular Blog Reader for several years. | | 211 |
| Jay Barasch | | Albuquerque, NM | USC, Duke | know Brendan from USC | | 266 |
| Jay Johnson | Jay | Tennessee | Memphis
Tennessee | | | 246 |
| Jeff Cultrera | Bada Bing | United States | Newington High School
CCSU | NHS | | 233 |
| Jeff Freeze | Jeff | Burns Harbor, IN | Indiana University grad, life long Notre Dame fanatic. | Blog reader since August 2005. | Bar none Notre Dame is my favorite team. I also am a fan of Michigan State, since my sister attended MSU and I am from Michigan. Another favorite in the tourney this year is Ohio State because of Evan Turner, he is incredible. | 224 |
| Jeff Morrison | JD | Iowa | Iowa State '04 | From Katrina, been keeping up since | For the men's tournament, go UNI Panthers and Big 12! (But insert "Rock Choke Jayhawk" if applicable.) | 251 |
| Jeff Sklar | Jeff | Tucson, AZ | University of Arizona, USC | Fellow Daily Trojan staffer, circa 2001 | | 263 |
| Jeff Vaca | jvcalbear | Elk Grove, CA | Cal '82 | Regular blog reader since Katrina. | | 211 |
| Jeffrey Kwit | jkwit | New York, NY | Fieldston High School 1983
U of Penn 1987
Columbia MBA 1992 | Referred by Ganza Site. And then went link hopping. Who is Brendan? | In order asked: 1. Penn (but Cornell this year); 2. Sort of; 3. No, John Wall is my friend's girlfriend's nephew; 4. Yes, I did, in fact; 5. No. | 248 |
| Jennifer Deschenes | Jen | Newington, CT | Newington H.S. '01, CCSU | Went to the same high school as Brendan. | | 229 |
| Jeremy Gist | | Lafayette,Indiana | University of Evansville | Blog reader since Katrina | Notre Dame
Purdue | 198 |
| Jessica Cowans | Jess | Chandler, AZ | Univ. of AZ '97, Junior College Basketball at Mesa Comm. College - AZ, Red Mountain High School, Mesa AZ | Worked with Brendan (he'd know the years). | | 280 |
| Jessica Fortuna | jessica | enfield, CT | Newington High | through high school | | 228 |
| Jessica Osborne | DJ Jozzy Josborne | San Francisco, CA | Ithaca College | I know Brendan from this one time when he saved me from a shark that was high out of it's mind on Ketamine. I have no idea where the shark got the Special K from, but we need to get some federal regulations in place to address the recreational drug use of these ocean-faring fish as clearly it's getting out of hand. | | 281 |
| Jill Alves | | Whitman, MA | Whitman Hanson High School, Stonehill College | Through my friend Danny Pilz | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - | 271 |
| Jim Kelly | pthread | Greenbelt, mD | UMD Grad, 2007 | Blog reader for about 2 years | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - I really don't like basketball. I'm an ice hockey and football fan mostly. | 258 |
| Joe Hiegel | | Greenfield, Wisconsin | | A longtime reader of the blog, I have played the contests here since 2007 | | 251 |
| Joe Resper | Joe Mama | | Bucknell University, University of Connecticut School of Law | Regular blog reader since 2005. | | 211 |
| Joey Perucki | | Newington, CT | Eastern Connecticut State University | | | 217 |
| Jon Caplin | Jon | Chicago, IL | Wisconsin '99. | Becky's cousin. I've also encouraged my lady to fill out a bracket. It will definitely be mascot oriented, if she does. | My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night | 160 |
| Josh Rubin | | Silver Spring, MD | NHS, 99; BA UMD '02; MA UMD '05; MS Johns Hopkins '08 | NHS 99 | Go Terps! Fuck Duke! (The ACC ROCKS) | 205 |
| Joshua Krause | | New Britain, CT | | know him though my wife, Diane (Huffman) Krause. | | 228 |
| Julia Hauser | | Los Angeles, CA | FIU 2009 | Don't know him but was referred to this pool by a regular blog reader | M Go Blue | 295 |
| Justin Vale | Justin | Vernon, CT | Eastern Connecticut State University '11
| I truthfully don't remember how i found this pool. But have been doing it for 7 or 8 years now. | I'm a Uconn fan, I won the mens pool in 2003 (i believe that was the year i won it) | 209 |
| Karen Torgersen | vtktorg | Raleigh NC | Virginia Tech | regular blog reader since Katrina | Love the Hokies and living in the middle of ACC land! | 250 |
| Katrina Lewonczyk | | CT USA | Newington High School Class of 2006
UMass Amherst Class of 2010 | know Brendan through my sister Angela | | 241 |
| Kelly Strutz | | Carrboro, NC | current UNC grad student | Can anyone ever really *know* how they know Brendan? | Duke sucks. | 209 |
| Ken Stern | maineiac | | USC and UCLA | see comments in NIT pool | see comments in NIT pool | 177 |
| Ken Wagner | KenW | Nashville | | Blog reader since Katrina | | 223 |
| Kevin Curran | kcatnd | New York, NY | Notre Dame (2007)
| Regular blog reader from the pre-Katrina days; regular IT/LRT pool (NCAA, Oscars, Electoral College) participant! | Favorite teams in order:
1. Notre Dame
2. Nebraska
3. UNC
Spent a few formative years of my young life growing up in Raleigh, NC,(near Duke, UNC, Wake Forest, NC State), so college basketball has always been on my radar. | 207 |
| Kevin Hauschulz | | | | | | 177 |
| Kevin Pilz | kpilz | Newington CT | i am a Senior at Newington High School | my brother and my father | | 213 |
| Khalil Aboukhaled | Buffalo, NY | | IU-Bloomington | Since Katrina | ND | 228 |
| Kris Cline | HAMMER | TACOMA,WA.USA | | REFERRED TO BY GUIDE TO FANTASY SPORTS | NOTHING SPECIAL BUT MY FAVORITE NCAAB TEAM IS WASHINGTON. | 206 |
| Kristy LaPlante | Kristy | Denver, CO | DOOOOOK | I have lost this pool for several consecutive years, and am usually beaten by my non-athletic sister, Kelly Strutz. Shameful! | I love lamp. | 206 |
| Kristy McCray | | San Luis Obispo, CA | USC 2002, journalism and poli sci
USC 2007, masters of education | From USC | Always root for my Trojans and against UCLA! | 238 |
| Larry Caplin | Uncle Larry | Union Lake, Mich/USA |
University of Detroit
1966 Grad |
Married to niece Becky |
Favorite teams are the UofD Titans,
and Michigan State Spartans | 231 |
| Lauren Barkmeier | | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | Notre Dame '04 | Referred to his blog by a mutual friend. | A Domer, born and bred! | 244 |
| Lauren Taylor | ndlauren | Smyrna, GA | BBA Accounting and Poli Sci from Notre Dame in 2004 | Found Brendan's blog back when he was at ND Law | Former member of the Band of the Fighting Irish Drumline; attended 1st and 2nd round NCAA games with ND band in 2001 in Kansas City, attended 1st and 2nd round NCAA women's games with band in 2002 in Knoxville; attended 1st and 2nd round games in Indy and Sweet 16 in Anaheim with ND band in 2003; attended Final Four in Atlanta in 2007 | 177 |
| Leanna Loomer | oldawnie | | Western High School, 1967
Western Illinois University, attended 1967-69
University of Illinois, 1971
University of Massachusetts, 1979 | i am his mother (1981 to the present) | played basketball (girls' rules) phys. ed. class, grades 7-9 and 10-12
fan, Western High School
fan, Western Illinois University
fan, University of Connecticut | 223 |
| Lisa Velte | | Seattle, WA | Go Irish!!! | | | 245 |
| Logan Pugh | | Washington, DC | Double Hoo: Two degrees from the University of Virginia. 2004-2009 | Regular blog reader since 2006. | Top 5 2006, Top 50 2007, Top 5 2008, Top 50 2009, so I'm due for Top 5! Working on Capitol Hill in DC. | 268 |
| Loyette Loy | | Denver, CO | Lil' Kickers Soccer Class, Bunnies Division | Brendan's 2-year-old daughter | Otre Dame Song, Daddy! | 258 |
| Marcus Hill | Lefty | Bristol, CT | CCSU | high school | our daughter will be born at some point during the tourney lol | 231 |
| Maria Tran | Maria | Irvine, CA | UCLA | | | 162 |
| Mark Gardner | | Fredericksburg, VA | Penn State | blog reader since the USACE couldn't build the 'dams' strong enough to hold back the water. | | 187 |
| Mark Jordon | | Goshen, NY | Newington H.S. '99 | I know Brendan from high school. | | 232 |
| Mark Saviola | | Buffalo, NY | | through Kristie LaPlant | | 197 |
| Mark Watchinski | wastinky | bloomington, il, usa | ISU | friend from facebook | | 233 |
| Marlene Saviola | | Buffalo, NY | | know him through Kristie LaPlant | | 146 |
| Marty West | Pac10inferiortoBig10 | Lansdowne, PA | LaSalle University, University of Pennsylvania | Interwebs | Temple for now! A-10 WHAT?!?! | 228 |
| Matt Cline | | Chicago, IL | I dont have strong connections to any of my schools, but I went to UIC. | I found out from a friend whom I assume reads the blog. I plan on beating her in my first ever bracket. | I follow college basketball by default since I watch sportscenter almost daily. If I were to root for a team it'd be Notre Dame or Illinois. | 186 |
| Matt Higgins | MHiggo | Jakarta, Indonesia | TCU, Class of 2003 | Regular blog reader since Hurricane Katrina | Doing non-profit work in Indonesia, spreading the good word of basketball in what passes for my spare time.
Spent one season as a student manager for the TCU men's basketball team while it was still coached by Billy Tubbs. My vocabulary has yet to recover. | 219 |
| Matt Kagan | | Evansville, IN | Newington High Classof 99
Southern New Hampshire 03, 07 | NEwington High! | | 219 |
| Matt Scarborough | Laundramatt | Phoenix | P.S. 206 - Brooklyn NY
New Canaan HS
UCONN '82 | Mesmerized by Brendan 48 hours before landfall. I am shaking as I write this. | Attended HS with Ann Coulter, who had mousey brown hair at the time. Pass it on. | 214 |
| Matt Thomsen | Matt | Rota, Spain | Newington High
University of New Haven | from high school | officer in the navy. in the civil engineer corps. will be living in spain for the next 3 years. | 165 |
| Matt Wiser | | Baton Rouge, LA | Uni of Rochester, '02, LSU, '05, '09, '11? | I know him from my brother Mike | I have not watched a single second of basketball this season | 314 |
| Melanie Peralta | woohooitsmel | new york, ny | ucla class of '05 | originally referred by mike tran and have failed miserably at it for the past 3 years or so. | | 239 |
| Michael Rosenkrantz | Mike R. | Newington, CT | Newington High School
Kent School '00
Cornell '04
Family Affiliations include: Rutgers, UConn, RPI, Maryland, Quinnipiac
| I know Brendan from Newington Public Schools | Is hoping they show the Big Red Pep Band, so I can recognize some of the kids I briefly met that one time at Homecoming. | 221 |
| Michael Walsh | Mickey Jay | Irvine, CA | USC | Fellow blogging, mutual friend of Mike Tran | Have taken #2 in big college pools twice and both times I was in first going into the finals with no chance to keep my lead. | 258 |
| Michael Watkins | Mr. President | Columbus, OH | I'm am only in 8th grade. I go to a middle school in upper arlington, ohio called Hastings | My dad is a member of his website | I love OSU (Ohio State) even though I have them losing to Kansas. You should also know that every adult I meet, likes me from the start. | 218 |
| Mike Boyd | vtmike | Raleigh, NC | Virginia Tech & University of North Carolina | Karen Torgersen's husband | Hokies and Tar Heels | 241 |
| Mike Dagen | pops | Vacaville, Ca | | follower since ?? 6 year now ?? | | 202 |
| Mike Deeds | Mike | Fairfax, VA | Georgetown | Infrequent blog reader since 2005. Participated in the pool in 2008 and finished (I think) in the top 10. | Once was told by Alonzo Mourning in college to "Cut that sh*t out!" | 182 |
| Mike Marchand | | South Bend, IN | Notre Dame '01 | NDToday.com | Trisha Neudorff is my stepsister. Small world. | 278 |
| Mike Quinn | isuquinndog | Normal, IL | Illinois State '01 | Have read Brendan's blogs for many year, starting with hurricane coverage, met him and Becky some time ago at the Missouri Valley Tournament in St. Louis. | | 219 |
| Mike Tran | Mike | Irvine, CA | Notre Dame, UCLA | Law School | | 218 |
| Mike Wiser | Mike | Lansing, MI | Kenmore West, 1995-1999
USC, 1999-2003
Stanford, 2003-2006
Michigan State, 2006-present | | ENTERED USING MASCOT BRACKET - I am unable to sink a layup, but I can hit 3 pointers. | 295 |
| Monique Wiard | acumo | South Bend, Indiana | Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (09)
Indiana University (02) | | | 250 |
| MT Swanson | Hollywood | La Porte, IN | Ball State | Previous participant | Notre Dame
| 216 |
| Myk Zerebeckyj | Myk | Denver CO | Lewis University, Pomona High School | Great Big Sea | I played NCAA Div I volleyball & currently play pro beach volleyball. | 160 |
| Natalie Zak | | Gainesville, FL | School of Wahhhhh!!! | Zak Family | | 209 |
| Nate Evangelista | | State College | | ND | | 202 |
| Neil Waechter | Domer Law Blog | South Bend, IN | St. Joseph's High School (South Bend) '97, Dolores High School (CO), Adams High School (South Bend), Indiana University South Bend, Indiana University at Bloomington '03, University of Notre Dame JD '07 | Law school classmate with Brendan | I am the original Notre Dame man. True story. | 211 |
| Pat Caplin | Aunt Pat | West Bloomfield, MI | BASH - a long, long time ago
My money has gone to the big 10 | Becky's Aunt Pat | | 248 |
| Pat Gonzales | PatGLex | Lexington, KY | University of Minnesota (worked there for 20 years) | Regular blog reader since Katrina [2005] | Rooting for the Gophers and Kentucky Wildcats; I've been to two ESPN College Game Days. Kentucky Coach John Calipari attends daily Mass occasionally at the UK Newman Center, where I lead singing on Fridays. (Oddly enough, so does the UKY women's coach Matthew Mitchell.) | 203 |
| Pat McGriff | tomtertra66 | Boone, IA USA | | | | 224 |
| Patrick Cullen | Tbone | Plymouth, MI | Central Michigan University | Regular blog reader, pre-Katrina. | I attended school with ex-NBA All-Star Dan "Thunder" Majerle at CMU. Students used to get into games for free (!) and we were once featured in People magazine throwing hundreds of rolls of TP at Rose Arena after the first bucket of every game. | 226 |
| Paul Zak | | Gainesville Florida | College | Zak family | | 198 |
| Peter Timbrell | Pete | Vernon, CT | Rockville High School, Stonehill College! | referred by a friend | Well UConn disappointed me this year, but my family loves ND, so for now I am an ND fan | 207 |
| Randy Styles | | South Bend, Indiana | Bethel College | | | 231 |
| Rich Port | Rick | Cedarburg WI | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 1970 | Referred by my son Dan Port | Marquette Fan | 206 |
| Rick Boeckler | Uncle Rick | Silver Spring, MD | Fordham University
University of MD | Spike Lee referred me to Brendan | I lettered at Fordham in Chess | 214 |
| Robert Carlos | USCarlos | La Habra, CA | USC class of 2000. Attended from 96-00. | I know Brendan from your infamous YouTube clip of the student section at the end of the SC-ND '05 game. | I was a student trainer during the dark ages of USC football. Played hookie for every March Madness opening day since '94. This year I'm taking Friday instead. | 206 |
| Robert Dokes | Dokes | Beverly, MA | Montclair High School (Montclair, NJ) class of 1996
Gordon College Class of 2001 | Diane(Huffman) Krause | Last years NIT pool winner | 189 |
| Roger Snyder | uscroger | new york | usc, columbia | Everybody knows Brendan! C'mon man! | bla bla blah | 148 |
| Ryan Dalidowitz | Ryan | Newington, CT | Newington High School, 2003-2007
Western New England College, 2007-2011 | Know him through Danny Pilz | Go UConn women!
(and I guess men too, even though they are Not. In. Tournament.) | 283 |
| Ryan McBride | | Dublin, Ireland | NHS - Class of 1999
Northeastern University - Class of 2004 | LRT Days | | 216 |
| Scott Loomer | Scottyboy | Kingston, PA | Fighting Cardinals of Western High, Maoomb, IL / Univ of Hartford / Princeton Theological Seminary | Brendan is one of my few nephews! | | 224 |
| Scott Ohm | iSportsLinks.com | Coldwater, MI | Case Western Reserve University 86-90 | google most likely, posted on iSportsLinks.com now | I take a 4 day weekend to update the best March Madness Bracket contest website - www.iSportsLinks.com | 228 |
| Scott Schmidt | | West Hollywood | Georgetown, USC | Internets | | 192 |
| Sean Sullivan | | Somerville MA | Amherst College '97
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| Sergio Lopez | Sergio | South Bend | NDLS 2007; UTEP 2004 | Law school | | 201 |
| Sharon Greggs | shadawnah | roanoke | | | | 287 |
| Shaun Sullivan | Sully | Clarksburg, MD | | | i don't really need to provide even a partial autobiography for you... i'll leave it up to you how you want to identify me in updates. just please don't post that picture of me with my arms up in the air at prom... i'm hoping that one will fade away eventually. | 223 |
| Steve Shim | | southern california | | | | 221 |
| Steve Vivier | Illini | Norwalk, CT/ USA | | Sean | | 193 |
| Suzanne Ogden Vannatter | SuzyQLLL | Vancouver, WA, USA | USC Trojan w/ The Loys - 2003 grad, 2007 USC MBA grad | Brendan and I are BFFs | My brother went to Duke. That's all I got. | 236 |
| Ted Zak | | gold canyon,az | | | | 251 |
| Thomas Haire | | Monrovia, CA | USC '94 | Know of him through USCFootball.com and Facebook. | | 221 |
| Tim Benson | | Santa Monica, California | Newington High '99 | NHS! | I'm awesome | 191 |
| Tim Stevens | Tim_Stevens | Silk City, CT | Grew up in CT so UCONN will always be an association, attend UHa for my Psy D now, so I've got that going for me in the women's bracket. Undergrad was a D3 school though and has no bearing on this whatsoever. | We did the whole Middle School and High School thing together in the Wu. | See above re: UCONN. I've also always had a fondness for the Green Wave of Tulane, for some reason. Also dig on Old Dominion since 8th Grade. | 221 |
| Todd Stigliano | Stigs | Manchester, CT | Newington High '99
Providence College '03 | NHS Baby! | I played soccer at Providence College. I have dinner once a week with Hall of Fame coach Geno Auriemma. | 192 |
| Tom Greca | | Newington, CT | Newington High School, CCSU | Highschool | | 196 |
| Trisha Neudorff | Trisha | Rochester, NY, USA | Purdue - 1998-2001
SUNY Brockport (NOT a Div 1 school) - 2008-present - graduating 5/15/2010 | Met Brendan through my husband, Brian via his Katrina blog in 2005. My husband is a meteorologist and found Brendan's Katrina blogging. Been following ever since. | Purdue; Big Ten teams; Butler; Tennessee; Anyone playing Notre Dame; Anyone who beats Notre Dame | 240 |
| Victoria Wagner | V | Denver, CO | | He's the first official SHA boy. | | 173 |
| Vinny Jankowski | ctskafan | newington ct | | newington ct | | 162 |
| Weston Cross | the big idiot | Buffalo, NY | University at Buffalo | I think he slept on my couch once | | 213 |