2009 NCAA Tournament Player Pool: UpdateBy: Aran_Smith

On Thursday we explained the rules to our site vs site fantasy
contest between NBADraft.net and NBA based sister site HoopsDaily.com.
Through the first 2 rounds of the NCAA tourney here are the results: Team HoopsDaily.com
holds a slim 17 point lead at 918 points to 901, as well as 22 players remaining to 21 (for NBADraft.net) moving into the Sweet 16.

Here are the results (both team and individual) thus
far:

Team HoopsDaily.com

918 points
22 players remaining

Team NBADraft.net

901
21 players remaining

Individual Scoreboard

Quick facts:

45 out of 64 players remain.
A total of 1801 points have been scored.
221.125 is the average score
5.625 players per team remain.
Blake Griffin is the point leader at 61 points.
Top 10 scorers: B. Griffin 61, S. Collins 57, W. Ellington. 48, A. Price 47, S.
Young 46, J. McNeal 44, D Cunningham 43, A. Abrams 43, L. Lyons 41, (4 tied at
37)
UNC has the most players with 5 (Hansbrough, Ellington, Lawson, Green, Thompson)
Xavier is the only team left with no players in the pool.
49 games have been played and 15 are left in the tourney.

Team Outlooks:

Mark Priaulx (Pri-O) (263 points) has the overall point lead and the most interesting
team with 3 sets of teammates remaining. A deep run for Villanova, Memphis and
Syracuse will give him a good shot to win the title. However he could easily lose
players quickly with so many players bunched on the same teams. Priaulx also made
two excellent picks at the end of the draft grabbing two 40+ point scorers in
AJ Abrams and Jerel McNeal, regardless of the fact that both players are out.

Brain Cerone’s (262 points) appears to be the team to beat with seven players
left and a point off the lead. Led by Sam Young, who started slow but was a great
choice at the fourth pick. His early to middle round picks have been very solid
and continue to survive and advance. Chase Budinger in the 6th round was a great
selection. Cerone’s final pick of Stanley Robinson is looking like an absolute
steal with 36 points and a number of games potentially left.

Jon Pastuszek (250 points) may have scored the eventual top overall scorer with
the second pick in Griffin who currently leads all scorers at 61 points. Though
down to just 5 players, if Oklahoma is able to reach the final four this team
will definitely be in the running.

Borko Popic (243 points) is just 20 points off the lead and also has a near full
squad. He struck gold with his Kansas duo in the middle rounds. Sherron Collins
is the #2 overall scorer after Griffin with 57 points and will look to add to
that. Cole Aldrich has contributed 36. Not bad from your 4th and 6th round picks.
His number one overall pick Hansbrough has 37 points and could be primed for some
break out games.

Aran Smith (232 points) (My team) got criticized for taking two point guards (Fields
and Walker) in the 3rd and 4th rounds but I was looking for long term value and
players that would score points late. So far, those two have been below average
scorers but hopefully will come through with points in the later rounds. With
Ellington (3rd overall in scoring – 48 pts) and Blair (37 points),
this team still has promise but will need some big games to get back into the
running.

Adam Ganeles (221 points) is down to just 5 players but has some firepower left
in Warren and Terrence Williams. Both players have proven to be solid picks in
the early rounds. Demarre Carroll has been solid and the best thing is he;s still
alive. Unfortunately some of his highest scoring players (James Anderson, Isaiah
Thomas and Dionte Christmas) are all out. Ganeles looks like a long shot to win
at this point.

Adi Josph’s (175 points) team will need some 50 point performances from Gerald
Henderson on his way to leading Duke to the title to have any shot of winning.
(ie aint happeneing). He’s down to just 3 players with Henderson, Kalin Lucas
and Robbie Hummel. Say hello to your last place finisher. Better luck next year
Adi!

Joshua Motenko (173 points) is also forced to play catch up. Motenko took some
big risks including Teague with the #1 pick with a dangerous 13 seed Cleveland
State in the first game (with Sam Young still on the board). Although his third
round pick of Ty Lawson is beginning to look smart with his 23 point performance
in round two despite a turf toe injury. Jordan Hill has also turned out to be
a good risk with 33 points, desite no huge outputs, he’s still alive.

Draft Results

Here was how the draft went down:

1. BP: Tyler Hansbrough, No. 1 North Carolina
2. JP: Blake Griffin, No. 2 Oklahoma
3. JM: Jeff Teague, No. 4 Wake Forest
4. BC: Sam Young, No. 1 Pittsburgh
5. AG: Willie Warren, Oklahoma
6. AJ: Gerald Henderson, No. 2 Duke
7. MP: Tyreke Evans, No. 2 Memphis
8. AS: DeJuan Blair, Pittsburgh

9. AS: Wayne Ellington, North Carolina
10. MP: Jonny Flynn, No. 3 Syracuse
11. AJ: Toney Douglas, No. 5 Florida State
12. AG: Terrence Williams, No. 1 Louisville
13. BC: Jeff Adrien, No. 1 Connecticut
14. JM: Hasheem Thabeet, Connecticut
15. JP: A.J. Price, Connecticut
16. BP: Earl Clark, Louisville

17. BP: Kyle Singler, Duke
18. JP: Danny Green, North Carolina
19. JM: Ty Lawson, North Carolina
20. BC: Samardo Samuels, Louisville
21. AG: DeMarre Carroll, No. 3 Missouri
22. AJ: Kalin Lucas, No. 2 Michigan State
23. MP: Dante Cunningham, No. 3 Villanova
24. AS: Levance Fields, Pittsburgh

25. AS: Kemba Walker, Connecticut
26. MP: Scottie Reynolds, Villanova
27. AJ: DaSean Butler, No. 6 West Virginia
28. AG: James Anderson, No. 8 Oklahoma State
29. BC: Jon Scheyer, Duke
30. JM: James Harden, No. 6 Arizona State
31. JP: Alex Ruoff, West Virginia
32. BP: Sherron Collins, No. 3 Kansas

33. BP: Deon Thompson, North Carolina
34. JP: James Johnson, Wake Forest
35. JM: Jordan Hill, No. 12 Arizona
36. BC: Robert Dozier, Memphis
37. AG: Isaiah Thomas, No. 4 Washington
38. AJ: Robbie Hummel, No. 5 Purdue
39. MP: Eric Devendorf, Syracuse
40. AS: Josh Heytvelt, No. 4 Gonzaga

41. AS: Taylor Griffin, Oklahoma
42. MP: Shawn Taggart, Memphis
43. AJ: Eric Maynor, No. 11 Virginia Commonwealth
44. AG: Dionte Christmas, No. 11 Temple
45. BC: Chase Budinger, Arizona
46. JM: Antonio Anderson, Memphis
47. JP: Leo Lyons, Missouri
48. BP: Cole Aldrich, Kansas

49. BP: Jeff Pendergraph, Arizona State
50. JP: Matt Bouldin, Gonzaga
51. JM: Jeremy Pargo, Gonzaga
52. BC: Jon Brockman, Washington
53. AG: Corey Fisher, Villanova
54. AJ: Darren Collison, No. 6 UCLA
55. MP: Jerel McNeal, No. 6 Marquette
56. AS: DeMar DeRozan, No. 10 Southern Cal

57. AS: Al-Farouq Aminu, Wake Forest
58. MP: A.J. Abrams, No. 7 Texas
59. AJ: Gary Wilkinson, No. 11 Utah State
60. AG: Jerry Smith, Louisville
61. BC: Stanley Robinson, Connecticut
62. JM: Austin Daye, Gonzaga
63. JP: Jerome Randle, No. 7 California
64. BP: Raymar Morgan, Michigan State