PATRICK THRAPP is the winner of the 2003 NCAA Tournament Pool. He was able to hold off two entrants who picked Syracuse to win the national championship, Alex Budak and Mitchell Brisacher by making the best possible pick at eleven of the sixteen seeds plus three of the Final Four.
Michael (Texas) also picked Syracuse to win the national championship, but his other picks left him in 18th place.
Had timbro (Syracuse) picked his own school as national champion, he would have won the contest with 80 points.
Picking the highest rated team by the RPI rankings for each seed would have placed you 16th.
Former winners of this contest, Charles DeMartini (1998) and Ken Tomlinson (1999) finished 88th and 53rd.
Big Al (UCLA) improved his position from 96th last year to 95th this year.
To see the best and worst possible picks and the winning entry, go to: BEST-WORST .
2003
FINAL STANDINGS
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(ties in top-10 broken by tiebreaker)
1 Patrick Thrapp (dawgman.com) 76
2 Mitchell Brisacher (UCLA 2016) 68
3 Alex Budak (UCLA) 65
4 Jerry Miller (UCLA) 62
5 Scott Rothstein (UCLA '91) 62
6 timbro (Syracuse) 62
7 Steve Lane (WOSC '92) 60
8 Eric Yabu (Cal '89) 59
9 Steve Kaufman (UCLA) 58
10 Frank Berry (Arizona) 57
11 Moin Salahuddin (UCLA) 56
12 Erik Grimshaw (Cal '95) 55
Jeff Kmiotek (UCLA) 55
Linas Polikaitis (UCLA '83) 55
15 APG (CSUN) 54
16 Morgan (ASU Alum) 51
*RPI* 51
18 Michael (Texas) 50
Sean Christensen (USC) 50
20 Arshi Sagati (sportjunky) 48
21 Michael (RPI) 47
22 Mohammad Salahuddin (UCLA Dad) 45
23 Dave Lombard (UCLA) 44
Mark Tsuie (UCLA) 44
Richard Meyer (UCLA) 44
26 L. Paish (UW) 42
Michael Bishop (SDSundevil) 42
Mr. Marsh (Arizona State) 42
Richard Brisacher (UCLA '88) 42
*CONSENSUS* 42
31 Howie Ludwig (Cal '69) 41
32 Jim Reach (UCLA '62) 40
john dmohowski (usc) 40
Vartan Madoyan (ucla) 40
35 Chris Lee (University of Texas) 39
36 Bob Clemens (Texas) 38
Evan Snow (UCLA) 38
Steve Conoglio (UCLA '93) 38
39 jaydeebee (UofA) 37
mike bowles (USC) 37
Trevor Vallow (USC) 37
42 Kier (OSU/Crushers) 36
Scott Lindley (Sac St Hornets) 36
44 Edward (USC) 35
45 Bill Allen (UCLA'60) 34
BruinWalker (Friend) 34
dallgower (UCLA 1991) 34
Mahi (UCLA) 34
Max Waugh (UW) 34
Randy Enders (Ducks) 34
51 Nate Jolly (Oregon - Pit Crew) 33
schlessinger (none) 33
53 Jacob (Martha Lawrence) 32
Ken Tomlinson (UCLA) 32
55 Ben Pflaum (Oregon State) 31
Eric Noon (Orange Express) 31
57 Doug Swets 30
Tommy T (Trojans Club) 30
59 Ben Browdy (UCLA) 29
Bill Trenko (Univ of Wash) 29
61 Doug Slaton (Cal Band 84) 28
michael brace (wazzu) 28
63 Cliff Slaughterbeck (UW Physics) 27
64 Clark Olson (U of Washington) 26
65 Ed Cronshagen (UCLA70) 25
Richard Clayton (UCLA '87) 25
67 Ron Sakai (Cal) 24
Sean Grove (Oregon '96) 24
69 Keith Hines (UCLA Alumnus) 23
Tom Wren (USC) 23
TVofTroy (USC) 23
72 BarryA (Ucla) 22
SamoRed (UCLA) 22
Ty Gonrowski (Oregon-Pit Crew) 22
75 Les Canterbury (Arizona) 21
76 Ed Johnson (UC Berkeley) 20
77 Ed F.(CAL) 19
haji (BRO) 19
Jeff Mihaljevich (USC fan) 19
80 Eddie Hill (Oregon) 18
Hank Fung (Cal) 18
82 Jeff Ferren (UCLA '91) 17
Jeff Schloss (OSU '94) 17
Kevin Thelen (UCLA) 17
Larry Harris (USC) 17
Paul Baisted (OSU) 17
Ron Mgrublian (Arizona '90) 17
88 Charles DeMartini (California) 16
kev hayashida (ucla '87) 16
Michael Bartlett (UCLA 1990) 16
tower (none) 16
92 Andrew Still (USC) 15
93 Critchfield (CALIFORNIA BEARS) 14
94 Rick Kranz (UCLA Law) 13
95 Big Al (UCLA) 9
96 Michelle Temple (Cal Bears) 6