Sunday, May 19, 2013

Businesses also playing Bracket Mania contest

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!

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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

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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

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