One shining moment for the North Carolina Tar Heels and their fifth national championship.  But, there is also one shining moment for the CofC Bracket Challenge winner.

Well, first of all, I want to thank all of the 71 participants of the Curse of Cleveland Bracket Challenge.  It was a fantastic turnout, much more than we had anticipated, and we hope you all had fun participating.  For those of you who couldn't get your bracket submitted, I apologize we had some bugs on our end that we hope to correct in time for next year's contest.

It was a spirited race, and no clear cut leader emerged until the Final Four weekend.  Part of that is the points system, while part of it is the number of strong brackets that were submitted.

Finally, I hope you all take this opportunity from the challenge to become a regular visitor to CofC.  Register for a Bloguin account (which can be done by clicking "Sign Up" at the top right of the screen under the Bloguin sign-in), post in the forums, comment on the stories, and send us feedback or ideas for a story ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).  Without further ado, here's the final standings.

We've decided to award CofC T-Shirts to the 2nd and 3rd place winners as well in light of the great turnout, and the winner will receive a shirt as well as the 20 dollar Buffalo Wild Wings gift card.

Winner: TLads - 138

2nd place: Cory - 122

3rd place: daywalker - 118

dolphins1417 - 114

Hill - 113

AFA04 -110

Cheeto23 - 109

CofC MVP - 108

Yeagerbomb - 108

paulcarter - 108

ski - 107

Scott - 106

chadindo - 105

Zeus - 104

Corbin - 103

JoeFlo - 103

goblue14 - 102

Sullrich - 102

BDave - 102

Tar Heel Nation - 100

megs - 99

seidl135 - 98

Jagermeister - 98

npetrof - 98

brutus - 96

Omar_Fan - 95

jasonindorf - 95

Heath4 - 93

BennyB - 92

cathyu - 91

osucyle - 90

jmo6 - 90

Big Red - 89

Bgusta20 - 89

OSUmom - 88

atwarek - 88

MrWooWoo - 87

Porto - 87

ullrichm - 86

The Hot Richard - 84

Marblehead - 84

FMICHIGAN14 - 83

John - 81

Allegra - 80

Sid Monge - 78

OSULonewolf - 78

clukasko - 78

TORNADO - 77

brug - 76

Steve W - 75

nemonick - 73

swartzkr - 73

The Adam Dunn Lookalike - 72

BrendoScourge - 72

Dickie_V - 71

Thad Matta - 70

Luke-Dogg - 70

cdubb1089 - 69

Starvin' Marvin - 69

Lou22 - 68

Burn On Big River - 67

Chemy - 67

ldoskiOSU - 67

Westine - 66

Dr. Clutch - 64

Chrisco - 64

Steve - 63

Aunt Amy - 60

Jackie - 59

MarbleheadGal - 57

Grandma - 33

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