... official results:

** 1st 1090 Bob Orme (picked Maryland to win it all)
* 2nd 1050 Steve Blust (ditto)
nc 3rd 1010 Mark Oda (my brother-in-law)
* 4th 910 John Long (fell out of 2nd place when Md won)
nc 5th 870 Doug Reilly (#1 son; also picked Md to win)
** 6th 820 Marc Shapiro
* 7th 750 Ralph Myers
* --- 750 Pete Porro
** 9th 720 Lisa Stoops
** --- 720 Brian Watts
* 11th 710 Jay Sands
* 12th 660 Josh Shore
nc ---- 660 Brian Watkins (family friend)
** 14th 610 Jim Reilly
* 15th 600 Michael Hoffman
* ---- 600 Ross Poppel
** 17th 590 Todd Desnoyers
* 18th 580 Tom Leggio
* 19th 560 Andy Hughes
* 20th 520 Bill Thompson
* 21st 470 John Zoesch (who really doesn't know anything about basketball!!)

Bob Orme wins 12 chips, one from each of the people marked with a single *
He also gets the bonus three chips which I will add to the winner's payoff.

Steve Blust wins 6 chips, one from each of the people marked with a double **
He also gets one bonus chip, which I will send.

Jonh Zoesch wins the last place chip, which I will send!

nc = non-chippers who were not participating in the chip pool.

Each of the two top winners, please post your mailing address in a response to this message. John can email me his.

Congratulations to the winners & better picking next year for the rest of us.

----- jim o\-S