HELL YA BOILERS WIN!!! And, your bracket leaderboard.

WOOHOO the Boilers are back!! Purdue defeated Arizona tonight 72-63 in New Orleans to set up a match up with the #1 overall seeded, Florida Gators! No matter what happens on Sunday, our Boilers did us proud with a big win. For those that don't know last year we had 9 wins, and the year before 6, so 22 wins is AMAZING! Thank you Boilers, and Coach Painter, In Matt we trust. Now lets go Gator hunting! BTFU! By the way we had the shot of the tournament, and the year. Shot clock winding down, Chris Kramer our Freshman guard pentrates loses his footing falls down to his knees, throws the shot up and hits it. UNFREAKINGBELIEVEABLE! Also all those media people who dogged the big ten, saying Purdue and Illinois didn't belong in the field, after the first round Big Ten is 5-1, so KISS MY ASS CNNSI!

Now, to the contest, here is a look at the leaderboard following all first round games. Some of you took some major hits haha.
The South 8 Possible Points.
Design Goddess 5 Pts
Nutzonaroll 5 Pts
Jenn 2 Pts
Big Winner- Might be Nutz with her pick of Nevada, and how far DG took Creighton(elite 8) Looks like the South is Nutz's to lose. Jenn went with the strategy of the alphabet making her take a 16 seed to the final four, and well that was all she wrote ha.

The East 8 Possible Points.
Mr Shife 8 Pts
Jef 5 Pts
Fuzz 4 Pts
Big Ups to Mr Shife he is the only one in this contest that got all 8 first round picks correct. I bow down to the shifeman. Fuzz took a big hit with Texas Tech going out in rd 1, but could stay in it with Texas going to the final four.. Jef is still in pretty good shape overall even though he lost a couple in the bottom half of the bracket. East though looks like it's Shife's for the taking

The West 8 Possible Points
The Duck 5 Pts
David 4 Pts
Steph 3 Pts
Duck holds a slim lead in this region, but David isn't out of it yet. Tough night for Steph, as Illinois bowed out with a tough loss. Duck can keep the edge with a VCU win tomorrow. Right now a tossup between Duck and David. Sorry steph!

The Midwest 8 possible points
Cheryl 7 Pts
Phoenix 6 Pts
Mike H 6 Pts
Beading 5 Pts
Cheryl would have had the best of first round had it not been for Shife. Her lone miss was Georgia Tech. For a hockey guy I was very impressed with Mike H's picks. Phoenix is still in good shape with three sweet 16 teams alive. Beading went for upsets, but could sneak in there with her elite 8 teams both still alive. Thank you all for picking Purdue as well! Midwest is still up in the air, but I am going with Cheryl as a slight favorite.

I was 24-8 not too bad, I shouldn't have gone with Davidson, and Notre Lame. I figured ND knew Winthrop was being talked about as this year's cinderella and would be ready for them. Oh well.

Thank you all again for participating, best of luck in the next round. Don't forget the winners of region will be picking the final four and championship game. I think the big ? is can Mr Shife stay perfect!

Keep watching March Madness, and BTFU BABY!
Phats