STEVE STEINHART is the winner of the 2001 Pac-10 Hoop-Pundits Pool. For the second straight year, the contest went down to the NCAA championship game. Chris Davis, the leader after the game picking portion of the contest, bombed on the bonus questions with only one correct. He still would have pulled it out if Arizona won the championship. However, Steve ended up edging out Scott Rothstein by a mere two points.

Steve is a hotel sales and marketing consultant who attended the University of Denver, but is a diehard Stanford fan. His strategy was to predict the Pac-10 order of finish and then match them up game by game. He figures he overrated USC, OSU and ASU, but probably not as badly as most. Steve was runner-up in 1999.

Contest facts and figures:

As usual, the bonus point categories were hard to predict. Two entrants, Howie Ludwig and Jeff Haigh had six out of ten correct. Three of the ten categories had two or less correct picks. Nobody had Steve Lavin as Coach of the Year (except Poolman - see the entry form). To see how our picks compared with the actual category winners, go to Summary of Picks .

Team Standings - total of top three from each school(best individual)

  • (1)UCLA 3259 (Scott Rothstein)
  • (2)Stanford 3185 (Steve Steinhart)
  • (3)Cal 3136 (Julie Yabu)
  • (4)Oregon St 3133 (Scott Morrison)
  • (5)WSU 3114 (Alan Anderson)
  • (6)Arizona 3032 (Doug Iverson)
  • (7)Oregon 3012 (Bryan Butcher)
  • (8)USC 3006 (Larry Harris)
  • (9)ASU - (James Wheeler)
  • (10)Washington - (Brad Moore)

    Most exact margin picks: 9 (Scott Rothstein)

    Fewest exact margin picks: 0 (Doug Iverson,Don L Duck,Greg Lamanna,Richard Lee)

    Bets winning percentage: 82.3% (Alan Anderson)

    Previous winners:

  • 1997 Dale Wheatley 7th
  • 1999 Eric Yabu 47th

    Notable:

  • Doug Iverson - 4th last year, 6th this year
  • Julie Yabu - 13th last year, 13th this year
  • Ken Tomlinson - 106th last year, 14th this year
  • Matt Azhocar - 114th last year, 88th this year

    FINAL STANDINGS: all ties broken by (1) winning pct; (2) exact picks

    # NAME W-L (E) TOTAL
    1 Steve Steinhart (Stanford Indians) 76-20 3 1101
    2 Scott Rothstein (UCLA '91) 75-21 9 1099
    3 Chris Davis (UNLV) 77-19 3 1093
    4 Joel Donahoe (UCLA '95) 78-18 3 1086
    5 Alan Anderson (Washington State) 79-17 3 1084
    6 Doug Iverson (Arizona '94) 73-23 0 1082
    7 Dale Wheatley (UCLA Alum) 77-19 2 1074
    8 Barry Beck (UCLA) 75-21 5 1063
    9 woody (ucla) 77-19 1 1057
    10 Richard Brisacher (UCLA '88) 74-22 2 1053
    11 Scott Morrison (Oregon State) 73-23 5 1053
    12 Larry Harris (USC) 74-22 3 1052
    13 Julie Yabu (Cal '90) 76-20 2 1051
    14 Ken Tomlinson (UCLA) 72-24 3 1050
    15 Michelle Temple (Go Bears) 72-24 1 1048
    16 Joe Pundit (Consensus) 74-22 2 1047
    17 J.M. Trancos (Stanford '83) 73-23 4 1047
    18 Jason Dolan (Wazzu) 73-23 4 1046
    19 Jeff Schloss (Oregon St '94) 70-26 6 1045
    20 Barry Abel (Ucla) 74-22 3 1044
    21 Sam Kerr (cal'79) 72-24 5 1037
    22 tpope (ccstanford) 72-24 3 1037
    23 Russ Kaufman (OSU '86) 73-23 3 1035
    24 Terry Moore (OSU) 72-24 4 1033
    25 Bryan Butcher (Oregon '87) 74-22 5 1032
    26 Josh Siefried (UCLA) 74-22 4 1025
    27 Howie Ludwig (Cal '69) 69-26 2 1024
    28 Kevin Fong (California '88) 74-22 4 1023
    29 Ralph Gomez (Lakewood) 73-23 4 1023
    30 Edmund Johnson (UC Berkeley) 70-26 3 1021
    31 Ben Browdy (UCLA) 70-26 5 1019
    32 Charles DeMartini (California) 70-26 3 1017
    33 Don L Duck (Go-Ducks) 73-23 0 1013
    34 Jim Ruderman (SC) 71-25 2 1009
    35 Bill Allen (UCLA '60) 74-22 1 1008
    36 Jeff Haigh (CAL) 68-28 4 1005
    37 Marlo Reishus (UCLA FAN/SSU 79) 73-23 3 1004
    38 ***Suleman*** (USC) 72-24 4 1003
    39 John Poprac (UCLA '88) 73-23 1 999
    40 Kevin Yin (California) 72-24 5 999
    41 Karen Smith 76-20 3 995
    42 Trevor Vallow (USC) 69-27 4 994
    43 Keith USC90 (USC) 71-23 3 990
    44 Andy Holderness 72-24 1 989
    45 Cory Martins (Southern Cal) 71-24 3 987
    46 Arizona@Alumni (Arizona) 71-25 3 987
    47 Eric Yabu (Cal '89) 71-25 2 987
    48 Korri Anderson (WSU) 68-28 5 984
    49 Andrew Shafer (Hamburger University) 69-27 2 983
    50 Jeff Kmiotek (UCLA) 73-23 1 981
    51 Greg Lamanna (WSU '79) 71-25 0 981
    52 Dave B (Cal '84) 67-29 6 981
    53 Nick Gregor (UC Berkeley) 69-27 2 976
    54 James Wheeler (ASU) 71-25 3 975
    55 Wayne Martin (Southern Cal) 70-26 3 972
    56 Brad Moore (UW 74 & 77) 68-25 3 972
    57 Jesse Steinhart (Stanford Golfer) 70-26 2 970
    58 Ken Carlock (CAL) 67-29 3 968
    59 Al Edwards (UCLA) 69-27 2 967
    60 Shawna Nomura (Oregon Ducks) 68-28 3 967
    61 Cory Hibbert 69-27 1 965
    62 ryan (wildwestsports) 67-28 5 965
    63 Brad Allis (Arizona) 69-23 1 963
    64 Richard Meyer (UCLA) 64-32 3 962
    65 Barron Yanaga (USC '83) 69-27 1 959
    66 David Shafer (california) 68-28 2 959
    67 Ted Cross (Arizona) 71-25 3 956
    68 Steve Moore (Cal Alum) 67-29 1 956
    69 Les Canterbury (University of Arizona) 68-28 2 955
    70 Mitchell Brisacher (UCLA Class of 2016) 66-30 4 954
    71 Mike Magee (University of Oregon) 69-27 4 952
    72 bruab (cal) 67-29 2 950
    73 Kev Hayashida (ucla) 70-26 1 949
    74 Jay Dodge (CAL MPH '97) 69-27 3 948
    75 Doug Slaton (Cal 84) 69-27 3 937
    76 Andrew Still (USC) 69-27 2 935
    77 Dave Sachs (Oregon State) 67-29 4 935
    78 Devon Allgower (UCLA '91) 66-30 3 935
    79 Eddie Hill (Oregon) 69-27 1 933
    80 Evan Lewis (UofO) 66-30 2 924
    81 B-ROM (USC) 63-33 1 921
    82 Richard Lee (Cal) 64-32 0 915
    83 Steve Lane (WOSC 92) 67-29 6 913
    84 Pravin C. (USC) 69-27 5 912
    85 S. Chorna (USC-Class of '64) 68-26 1 912
    86 Richard Busby (Oregon) 66-30 1 907
    87 Cougini (WSU) 65-30 1 905
    88 Matt Azhocar (O.S.U. Angry Beavers!!!) 66-30 2 904
    89 Kenny Elliott (UCLA fan) 68-26 5 902
    90 Jason Sevilla (USC '96) 65-31 3 897
    91 Rob Donald (cal 89) 63-33 3 894
    92 Calfanz (Cal) 63-31 2 888
    93 Brian Kier (OSU/Crushers) 63-33 2 882
    94 Peter Symonds (California) 65-31 3 877
    95 Edward Castro (USC Law '92) 64-32 6 871
    96 Gary (SC) 62-34 2 871
    97 Patrick Puhl (USC-not UCLA) 59-37 5 860
    98 Brad Broadbeck (U of O Drumline) 65-31 1 857
    99 Paul Baisted (USMA '89 / OSU) 60-35 2 853
    100 Mark Wren 61-34 3 850
    101 Brett Padelford (USC Trojan Marching Ban 61-35 3 838
    102 Bob Eaton (Colliers) 57-39 2 815
    103 Rion Moran (WSU Cougars) 54-39 1 771