NEIL BARTON is the winner of the 2000 NCAA TOURNAMENT POOL. His score of 71 was the highest of about 160 entries in the two pools we run. (Unfortunately for Neil, this was the one without the cash prizes.) The key pick was at #6, where he had Purdue and the next two high scores had UCLA.

To see the best and worst possible picks and the winning entry, go to: BEST-WORST .

                                 CURRENT STANDINGS
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          1    Neal Barton              71
          2    David Dobrikin           70 (wins 9th tiebreaker)
          3    Ed Johnson               70
          4    John Poprac              68
          5    Alex Hall                64
          6    rich seto                60
               *consensus*              60
          8    Erik Grimshaw            59
               LSJUCLA                  59
          10   Charles DeMartini        57
          11   Russ Kaufman             54
          12   Kyle Latta               53
               John C Forster           53
               Bobby Kouretchian        53
               Bill Dandridge           53
          16   Richard Meyer            52
          17   june lu                  51
               Top Dawg                 51
          19   John W. Frendo           50
               Terry Moore              50
          21   John Kutch               49
               Alan Manning             49
          23   Ken Tomlinson            48
               Brandon Huffman          48
               shawna Nomura            48
          26   John Brunson             47
          27   G Moore                  46
               Michael Levin            46
          29   Jeff Kmiotek             45
          30   Jeff Schloss             44
          31   Doug Slaton              43
          32   Ramiro Bretado           41
          33   Doug Smith               40
          34   Ben Browdy               39
          35   Jeff Ferren              36
          36   Terry Paulson            33
          37   Max Waugh                32
               Kelly Brown              32
          39   Nate Liberman            31
               Bill Willis              31
          41   Steve Feinholz           30
               john feeley              30
          43   Alfred Leong             29
               John Weakland            29
          45   Brad Broadbeck           27
               Preston Kauk             27
          47   Kory Dingle              26
               Kenny Lehmer             26
          49   tower                    25
               Garee                    25
               Cody Brown               25
          52   Eric Yabu                24
               Paul Baisted             24
               Richard Brisacher        24
          55   glenn                    23
               Dan Brown                23
          57   Edie Hill                22
          58   Erik S Chen              21
               Greg Lewis               21
               woody                    21
          61   Scott Rothstein          20
          62   Ted Lin                  19
               Dan Frakes               19
          64   #22                      18
               Bill Allen               18
               Tony Brown               18
          67   Tom                      17
          68   John Brizendine          15
               Rod Comer                15
          70   Linas Polikaitis         14
          71   Dave "duke"  Snyder      13
               Todd Woof                13
               kev hayashida            13
          74   B Kier                   12
               Mike Higuchi             12
          76   Clark Olson              11
               Ed Cronshagen            11
               Barry Beck               11
          79   Larry Harris             10
          80   Nancy Jamison             9
          81   Dpostal                   8
          82   Ron Mgrublian             4
          83   Giles Hamm                3