Welcome to TheLeon


** It is finally time. TheLeon is back for another great year. **



My four college roommates and I started this event in 1981. My Dad, Leon, played for the first time in 1982, and he never missed a year until he passed away at tournament time in 2011. He loved March Madness, and like everything else in his life, he turned it into a ritual. Monday morning was prep time, reviewing the brackets in the Citizen’s Voice at the island in the kitchen. On Monday night, he employed a sophisticated decision model:


  1. always pick his alma mater, Bucknell, for one maybe two rounds if they were in
  2. pick Jesuit schools, especially Georgetown, to go far;
  3. pick non-Jesuit Catholic schools to go far, but not as far as the Jesuits;
  4. pick any team with that has a coach with a Polish name; and
  5. any school from PA.


  6. It was actually a very successful model. He’d put it in the mail (he got a senior citizen dispensation on the computer entry) on Tuesday after making a copy at the post office. Then he’d follow closely. When my Dad passed away in 2011, we named the event after him because of his love of March Madness.

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