And the Surge Madness champions are…

Thirty-five aspiring basketball prognosticators entered the CState “March Madness” brackets competition, and four challengers surpassed all the rest in predicting the outcome of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.

Congratulations to our victors, who were able to forsee that Kansas and South Carolina would prevail, and didn’t stumble too far when the likes of St. Peter’s and Creighton broke most other people’s brackets.

Men’s bracket

• First place – Julie McLaughlin (above)
   
• Second place – Jen Martin (below)

Women’s bracket

• First place – Jesse Brown (below)
   
  
• Second place – Tom Kindig (below)

Daily News also notes with interest that the alignment of the brackets and the winners of the brackets defies gender stereotyping… so way to go, CState basketball aficionados!

(Photos provided by Mark Tiemeier)