Congratulations to Clay Phillips for winning this year's pool. Later this week I will be sending emails to the winners. As we do every year, payments will be delayed while we collect the final payments. As of this update, 68 brackets are still to be paid for. We want to pay out as much as possible to the winners. If you have not yet paid, please click on PAYMENTS above and use one of our many options.

Payouts should be at least as much as they were last year. Will be increased as we collect on the remaining brackets. The top 5 to 10 spots will be the ones benefitting from the increase. There will not be much change if any to spots below 10. As of this update there are 68 brackets not yet paid for.

Welcome to the 2017 Randy Carter Memorial NCAA Basketball Pool by Razor and Dogg. This pool had been run by Randy Carter and myself since the early 2000s. Unfortunately, we lost Randy Carter in 2011 to Prostate Cancer. We also lost his beloved wife Sherry in 2013. We carry this pool on in both of their honors. A way you can honor Randy is by getting your annual wellness exams. One of our participants who has been in this pool since the inception did not want to go to the doctor himself when he was having some of the symptoms that Randy had early on. Randy talked him into going to see the doctors, and they found that he too had Prostate Cancer and they caught it in time If you have health insurance, most plans I have seen cover this with no co-payments required. Please, we want to see you next year, and the year after that, and the year after that...

The pool is now operated by Rick Rybaczek and Billy Caudle. Last year we had a record 398 total entries, paying out $3950! This year, we want to eclipse 450 entrants. Brackets will continue to be $10 per entry. Payments will be able to be made by Check, Money Order, Wells Fargo Surepay, PayPal and by Credit Card. You can also pay in person if you are able to get your money to one of us.

Prizes will be announced after number of entries are determined and we are sure we will be collecting from everyone. We will pay out roughly 1 spot for every ten entries up to a maximum of about 24 spots paid plus the traditional bottom feeder award for the person who finishes second to last. As always, all funds collected will be paid out minus $30 which is used to reimburse the pool for the cost of the great software we use to operate the pool. We do reserve the right to increase the number of spots paid if the number of entries majorly exceed our initial expectations. This decision will be at the discretion of Rick Rybaczek and Billy Caudle.

Prizes for 2017 will be published when they are determined. Remember, we only remove 30 from the prize fund to cover the annual upgrade costs of Turbo Tourney. The rest gets paid out.

The payouts from 2016 are listed below

1st - 890, 2nd - 600, 3rd - 450, 4th - 350, 5th - 275. 6th - 220, 7th - 190, 8th - 160, 9th - 130, 10th - 100, 11th - 70, 12th - 65, 13th - 60, 14th - 55, 15th - 50, 16th - 45, 17th - 40, 18th - 35, 19th - 30, 20th through 24th - 25, 397th - 10. We reserve the right to adjust final payouts if we do not collect from everyone.

TOURNAMENT RULES

The rules are simple to enter this pool.  Click on the entry form link and fill out your bracket.  You will need to give each one of your entries a unique name.  You will also need to provide your phone number, real name, and email address.   Click on the teams you think will win each game, and continue to do so until you have fully completed the bracket.  When you click on the Submit button at the bottom, you are done. Points are awarded by correctly predicting the bracket.   Each round will award more points than the previous round and will be awarded as follows:  Second round games (Field of 64) are worth 1 point, 3rd round games (field of 32) are worth 3 points, 4th round games (field of 16) are 5 points, the Regional Finals are worth 7 points, Final 4 round games are worth 8 points, and correctly picking the champion gets 10 points.  The player(s) with the highest overall point totals wins.  There are no tiebreakers. As you may be aware, the NCAA field has been changed to a field of 68, with 4 play-in games. These games will not count toward our pool. Enter your picks on the website for the teams you think will win. We are only using the field of 64 for this pool. There are 4 play-in games, two involving 16 seeded teams, and two involving teams that will be seeded 11 or 12. You do not need to wait until those play-in games are done to make your picks. If one of the play-in games is UAB versus Clemson, both 12 seeds, playing for the right to play #5 West Virginia. If you think that West Virginia would beat either one of those teams in the round of 64, then you can make your pick anytime. Same goes if you think that West Virginia would lose to either team, you can pick that loss. However, if you think that only one of those two teams would beat West Virginia then it would be advantageous to wait until that game is played. Remember, the deadline is Thursday about 5 minutes before tip-off to enter your picks.  The play-in games themselves do not count toward the pool.  We start counting points with the field of 64 Entry Fees are $10 per sheet.  We will accept cash or check, credit cards, wells fargo surepay, and paying with pal.   Should you need to mail a check, click here to send me an email for my address.   IMPORTANT NOTE: These pools are not endorsed by, promoted by, or even recognized by my place of employment. The pool administrator (me) does not receive any fees for services or cut of any kind making it in compliance with Ohio Revised Code 2915.02 and therefore a legal office pool.