2006 Recap: Jeanne is the Champ!

Florida's victory over LSU in the 2006 title game helped cement Jeanne Stewart's victory in our pool. One of only three brackets to correctly predict the Gators' national championship, Jeanne finished our pool with 84 points - which proved to be 10 more than anyone else scored. Considering the fact that she was the only person in our pool to correctly predict three of the Final Four teams, Jeanne's victory was well deserved.

Finishing 2nd with 74 points was Jeff Meylor, who held on to that spot despite scoring no points during the final weekend. Jeff had led our pool going into the final weekend, but he had to be happy holding on to 2nd place after being shut out the final weekend.

The brackets that finished 3rd thru 6th all scored 70 points. Tiebreakers were used to sort out those spots.

After all was said and done, Michael Steinke had two brackets that finished in the top five. His 3rd place bracket (like Jeanne) predicted Florida's victory Monday Night. Michael's other bracket, meanwhile, finished in 5th place. Nice work, Michael!

4th place went to Brian Watkins and 6th place was awarded to Donna D'Angelo. On the other hand, our hard luck bracket belonged to Tom Volkmann - who finished in 7th place. He scored as many points as 3rd place finisher Michael Steinke, but Tom lost all the tiebreakers and finished one spot out of the money.

With 397 brackets in our pool, the payouts for the Top 6 finishers were pretty hefty. Congrats to our Top 6 performers!

First Place - $790 (40%)
Second Place - $395 (20%)
Third Place - $300 (15%)
Fourth Place - $240 (12%)
Fifth Place - $160 (8%)
Sixth Place - $100 (5%)

Yet again, we set a new record for the number of brackets submitted into our pool. In fact, the 397 entries into this year's pool topped 2005's record count by 74.

Thanks to everyone who joined the pool!