Businesses also playing Bracket Mania contest
March 15, 2012 by Eric Lusk
Filed under Basketball, Basketball, Calendar, College, Latest Headlines, Sign-Ups
In addition to the 350-plus players participating in Bracket Mania this year, our 20 advertising sponsors have a couple contests of their own.
Advanced Electronics * Elkin
Wilkes Community College * Wilkesboro
Animal Ark Veterinary Hospital * Elkin
Cooke Rentals * Mount Airy
Wilkes Regional Medical Center * Wilkesboro
Patterson Collins * Mount Airy
Marvin's Garage Door * East Bend
Tri-County Orthopedic & Sports Medicine * Elkin, Mount Airy, Sparta
Patterson Toyota & Scion * Mount Airy
Cook's Sporting Goods * North Wilkesboro
Parrish Tire * Jonesville * Mount Airy * Dobson
Mark's Gun Shop * Dobson
Gardner-Webb University * Click for information on their degree completion programs on local campuses.
D-Rex Pharmacy * Jonesville
David H. Cline * General Dentistry * Elkin
Custom Heating & Cooling * Elkin
Cook Insurance Agency * Jonesville
Clayton Homes * America Lives Here
Bojangles of Jonesville * It's Bo Time!
Basic Finance
Each business has been asked to pick who they think will win the national championship. If they are correct on their pick, they will receive discounted advertising in a Yadkin Valley Sports magazine of their choice for 2012-13.
Also, we randomly assigned each of the 64 teams in the NCAA field to our advertising sponsors. Our advertisers will win a month’s worth of advertising on our Web site if they have a team reach the Final Four and a second month if one of their teams wins the NCAA title.
To make sure each business had a chance at the top teams, we threw all 20 of their names in a hat. Then we drew each one out and matched it to one of the top 20 seeded teams in the field. We did that for the next 20 teams, then the next 20. Four advertisers then were chosen at random to receive one of the four remaining teams (which happened to be the four No. 16 seeds).
The four No. 1 seeds went to Marvin’s Garage (Syracuse), Cook Insurance Agency (Michigan State), Wilkes Regional Medical Center (Kentucky) and Mark’s Guns (North Carolina).
Cook Insurance also got an in-state team with UNC Asheville. Wilkes Community College was paired with NC State, while Cook’s Sporting Goods was assigned Duke. Dr. David Cline, a dentist in Elkin, was given Florida State, the recently crowned ACC champions.
We’ll reveal which teams all our advertisers picked to win the tournament at a later time. For now, here are the 64 teams and which business they were randomly assigned to:
Cook Insurance Agency
Michigan State
West Virginia
South Florida
UNC Asheville
Patterson Collins
Georgetown
Murray State
Loyola MD
Western Kentucky
Wilkes Regional Medical Center
Kentucky
Xavier
VCU
Vermont
Wilkes Community College
Louisville
Florida
NC State
LIU Brooklyn
Advanced Electronics
Wisconsin
San Diego State
Colorado State
Marvins Garage Doors
Syracuse
Memphis
St. Bonaventure
Custom Heating and Cooling
Marquette
Notre Dame
Davidson
Cooke Rentals
Temple
Creighton
Harvard
Gardner-Webb
New Mexico
Virginia
Ohio
D-Rex Pharmacy
Michigan
Iowa State
Texas
Animal Ark of Elkin
Vanderbilt
Saint Mary’s
Long Beach State
Parrish Tire
Baylor
Purdue
Detroit
Cook’s Sporting Goods
Duke
Alabama
Colorado
Patterson Toyota
Ohio State
Southern Miss
Montana
Clayton Homes
Kansas
Cincinnati
South Dakota State
Tri-County Orthopedic
Missouri
UConn
BYU
Basic Finance
Indiana
UNLV
Lehigh
Bojangles
Wichita State
Kansas State
Norfolk State
Marks Guns
North Carolina
Gonzaga
Belmont
Dr. David Cline Dentist
Florida State
Saint Louis
New Mexico State