Updated: Mar 19, 2012, 10:31 PM

Vote: Coolest name in NCAA tourney


By Thomas Neumann
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Welcome to the third round of Page 2's Coolest Name in the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket.

To review: Page 2 is entrusting you, dear readers, with selecting the coolest player name in this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament from our bracket of 64 candidates.

The third-round ballot can be found at the bottom of this page.

Our criteria for coolness are similar to how Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart described obscenity in 1964: You know it when you see it. A great basketball name should be fun to say, fun to spell, or funky and unusual.


Second-round results (winners in bold):

Dallas Comegys Region (4,429 votes) God Shammgod Region (4,429 votes)
(8) Tavon Sledge, Iowa State, 85.8%
(16) Austin Etherington, Indiana, 14.2%		 (1) Cashmere Wright, Cincinnati, 83.1%
(8) Chace Stanback, UNLV, 16.9%
(4) Mogboluwaga Oginni, Creighton, 55.0%
(5) Enosch Wolf, Connecticut, 45.0%		 (4) Quincy Acy, Baylor, 28.6%
(5) Festus Ezeli, Vanderbilt, 71.4%
(3) Deuce Bello, Baylor, 62.0%
(6) Myck Kabongo, Texas, 38.0%		 (3) Jawanza Poland, South Florida, 39.5%
(6) Shabazz Napier, Connecticut, 60.5%
(2) Robinson Odoch Opong, LIU, 28.0%
(7) Vander Blue, Marquette, 72.0%		 (2) Rakeem Christmas, Syracuse, 74.1%
(10) Tu Holloway, Xavier, 25.9%

Second-round results (winners in bold):

Uwe Blab region (6,833 votes) Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje region (6,833 votes)
(1) Bak Bak, California, 67.6%
(9) Peter Pappageorge, Long Beach, 32.3%		 (1) Scoop Jardine, Syracuse, 72.9%
(8) James Michael McAdoo, UNC, 27.1%
(4) Hippolyte Tsafack, Memphis, 59.7%
(5) Booker Hucks, Long Island, 40.3%		 (5) Tyrone Staggers, Lehigh, 42.4%
(13) Spencer Dinwiddie, Colorado, 57.6%
(6) Staats Battle, North Carolina State, 64.3%
(14) Grandy Glaze, Saint Louis, 35.7%		 (3) Bubu Palo, Iowa State, 77.3%
(6) Latreze Mushatt, Murray State, 22.7%
(2) Dakota Slaughter, Alabama, 80.0%
(10) Steve Moundou-Missi, Harvard, 20.0%		 (2) Jordair Jett, Saint Louis, 58.7%
(7) Martavious Irving, Kansas State, 41.3%


The Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje and Uwe Blab regions are playing out as straight chalk, with one exception: No. 13 seed Spencer Dinwiddie of Colorado sprinting into the Sweet 16 with a win over No. 5 Tyrone Staggers of Lehigh.

There's less predictability over in the God Shammgod and Dallas Comegys regions, where three lower seeds have advanced to the Sweet 16: No. 7 Vander Blue of Marquette, No. 6 Festus Ezeli of Vanderbilt and No. 5 Shabazz Napier of UConn.

Vote in all four regions at the bottom of this page. Third-round voting ends Thursday at 10 p.m. ET. Check back Friday to vote in the regional finals.


• Click here to view the complete bracket and voting results



Dallas Comegys region -- scroll to bottom of page to vote

Third round Regional final

(8) Tavon Sledge, Iowa State

(4) Mogboluwaga Oginni, Creighton


(4) vs. (8) winner

(3) vs. (7) winner

(3) Deuce Bello, Baylor

(7) Vander Blue, Marquette

God Shammgod region -- scroll to bottom of page to vote

Third round Regional final

(1) Cashmere Wright, Cincinnati

(5) Festus Ezeli, Vanderbilt

(1) vs. (5) winner

(2) vs. (6) winner

(6) Shabazz Napier, Connecticut

(2) Rakeem Christmas, Syracuse

Uwe Blab region -- scroll to bottom of page to vote

Third round Regional final

(1) Bak Bak, California

(4) Hippolyte Tsafack, Memphis

(1) vs. (4) winner

(2) vs. (6) winner

(6) Staats Battle, North Carolina State

(2) Dakota Slaughter, Alabama

Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje region -- scroll to bottom of page to vote

Third round Regional final

(1) Scoop Jardine, Syracuse

(13) Spencer Dinwiddie, Colorado

(1) vs. (13) winner

(2) vs. (3) winner

(3) Bubu Palo, Iowa State

(2) Jordair Jett, Saint Louis

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