Tonight: Alex Whitfield vs. Amy Greca

It's a battle of the sexes tonight in the 13th annual Living Room Times men's basketball pool presented by the UCLA Bruins, as Alex Whitfield, a lifelong Nebraska fan who goes by the blog nickname "CORNHUSKERS 94 95 97," goes head-to-head with Amy Greca, a Newington, Connecticut resident who professes to "know absolutely nothing about basketball."

If Kansas wins the national championship, Whitfield will win the pool, rewarding his faith in the Big 12's best team. If Memphis prevails, Greca will win; the bracket that she put together "in probably less than 2 minutes" will be the best of the pool's 245 entries.

Whitfield lives in Brooklyn, New York, is a Duke alum, and has been an Irish Trojan blog reader since Hurricane Katrina. Greca, originally of Farmington, Connecticut, is married to Tom Greca, a high-school classmate of pool administrator Brendan Loy and the designer of this year's pool logo. Tom Greca has been competing in Times pools since their inception, and he won the seventh annual men's pool in 2002; if Memphis wins tonight, the Grecas would be the first-ever husband & wife pair to each win a Times pool championship.

Whitfield finished tied for 19th out of 263 in last year's men's pool; Greca finished tied for 97th. Whitfield finished 49th out of 104 in last year's women's pool.

Comments

[CORNHUSKERS 94 95 & 97]

Get out of my way Amy and I might let you watch us celebrate on the court tonight!

lol, good luck

[Amy]

Thanks but I don't need luck. Don't you know Brendan fixed the pool since my husband designed the logo?

You'll need the luck so good luck to you.

[Brendan Loy]

LOL... yup, I rigged the whole NCAA Tournament to make Amy just barely win. :)