CONGRATULATIONS to Hooter McDervish and Kevin Frazier and the Butler Bulldogs for the effort they gave tonight and in this tournament! I think we’ll see ‘em again next year!

Only 12 people picked Duke to win this year and I think its safe to say they had the easiest bracket, which is surprising given they were the last #1 seed chosen. Either way, they stood the test and won it all and can now claim a 4th national championship for Coach K!

WINNERS: Duke over Butler 1: Hooter McDervish; 2: Kevin Frazier

Thank you all for playing and we’ll see you next year!

Good Luck to everyone who has a shot at winning this weekend. The games look promising. Gonna root for Huggy Bear for the first time ever! With the Tarheels missing this year, I couldn’t help but reminisce a bit….

What a weekend of basketball! If anyone out west had a chance to attend the games in Salt Lake, you got your money’s worth. Hands down, those games were the best of the tourney. A very unpredictable tournament this year, and those who went out on a limb were rewarded!

Final Four Weekend, coming up! Here are the possible outcomes:

PLAYER SCENARIOS – Find out your best outcome!

Tournament Scenarios

• Michigan St over W Virginia 1: Chuck Straub; 2: Augie Hernandez
• W Virginia over Michigan St 1: Chuck Straub; 2: Ryan Talbot
• Michigan St over Duke 1: Hooter McDervish; 2: Coach J
• Duke over Michigan St 1: Hooter McDervish; 2: Kevin Frazier
• Butler over W Virginia 1: Augie Hernandez; 2: Tim Cabradilla
• W Virginia over Butler 1: Ryan Talbot; 2: Chuck Straub
• Butler over Duke 1: Hooter McDervish; 2: Coach J
• Duke over Butler 1: Hooter McDervish; 2: Kevin Frazier

Good Luck to everyone who’s got a shot! See you on Sat.

We’ve got a new member of the Bradshaw Hoops pick ‘em family this year! Congratulations to Tim and Betsy Cabradilla who had a little boy, Nick, on Tue. evening! Nick arrived just in time for St. Patty’s day and to get his picks in for his first NCAA tournament! Betsy spent her time in Labor teaching Nick how to fill out the brackets so that when he was born, he was ready!!

Congratulations and Good Luck to all 3 Cabradilla’s!

If you click on Game Results in the navigation you can see who picked whom in each game!

How about that Vanderbilt / Murray St. Finish!

All entries that have been received by 9am EDT have been uploaded for your review. If you’ve entered and don’t see your entry, please contact me as soon as possible.

So far: 182 participants for 2010

It’s going to be a busy day of basketball! Enjoy!

Come join the fun and get your picks entered by Thu. morning at 10 a.m. EDT! Please follow the instructions on the page at:

http://www.bradshawhoops.com

If you need to mull it over, there’s a printable pick sheet here: http://www.bradshawhoops.com//tournamentpicksheet.php

Should be a ton of fun!! This is likely the last email I’ll send with updates and will instead be posting reminders on the deadline and updated reports to the blog page and Twitter.

It’s $11.00 to enter which includes a $1.00 fee to paypal and $10 worth of pure fun!

If you have questions, you can reply to this email.

Good Luck!
Tim

Here at the paypal booth and getting some payback for pool fees…

Once again, Duke’s number 1 seed looks like the easiest path to the final four…

In Austin TX, SXSW is information overload and now throwing basketball on top of it may cripple me…