After 25 days and 67 games, we have our NCAA tournament champion … and kudos to you for having Grayson Allen-led Duke at the end. We also have a sore loser and a new view of Bo Ryan, but we’re here at this very moment to crown the winner of our annual pool.

Please congratulate jkelle15, who finished with 71.8 percent of the possible points and in the 98th percentile. And jkelle15, please send me an email so I can get the winner’s gift to you.

This one went down to the wire. Our winner can thank one game in particular: WVU d. Maryland. If Maryland wins that game and Duke goes on to cut down the nets, the champion is JP CRW. Tough luck, fella. A Wisconsin win would have crowned a different champion (Sshh! Don’t tell Hob Buggins!) and the presumed Kentucky win would have necessitated a tiebreaker between wvRichie and balla1582.

If you’re curious to see how you did, here are the final standings.

Meantime, I’m looking for a preseason top 25 that includes WVU.