| CKI: Highest player point total : 209 points - Hop 2009 |
| CKI: Lowest player point total : 71 points - Stud B 2000 |
| CKI: Highest player pick percentage : 84% - Hop 2009 |
| CKI: Lowest player pick percentage : 35% - MJR 1999 (No wonder Mary Jane is always asking for a losers pot). |
| CKI: Lowest player pick percentage to win the pool : 63% - Flied 1997 |
| CKI: Largest number of entrants : 186 2010 |
| In 2009, President Obama made his picks public. He finished in 63rd place (out of 157) in the Chris Krauss Invitational proving that 40% of CKI participants are smarter than a president. |
| The game of basketball was invented by the ancient Anasazi Indian tribe of present day North Dakota around 4000 BC, using the severed heads of their enemies and baskets woven from papyrus. The first modern basketball game with the 5 on 5 format was played on January 18, 1896 between the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago. The final score was Chicago 15, Iowa 12. |
| In 2009, the 2nd place finisher based her picks on the prowess of team mascots, as in 'A Musketeer can beat up a Seminole, he's got a gun right?' Sorry, Connie, for giving up your secret. |
| A #1 seed has never lost to a #16 seed. However, in 1990, #16 Murray St. took #1 seed Michigan to overtime before finally losing. No. 2 seeds have only lost three first round games. |
| The University of Nebraska has never been invited to the NCAA tournament because of their snotty attitude. |
| The odds of filling out a perfect bracket are 2 to the 63rd power - nine quintillion - to one. That's 9 followed by 18 zeroes. |
| UCLA has the most tournament championships - 11. |
| Brent Musberger is generally credited with coining the phrase "March Madness". |
| It was estimated that the U.S. economy lost $4 billion dollars in lost productivity last year during March Madness. If you're reading this at work right now rather than writing that memo, then you probably know what this means. |
| CKI: Only father and son to finish in the money: Moose and Bean, 2006. |
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| Note: CKI Statistics are based on extant records for the years 1994, and 1997-2009. Records for years 1995-1996 were tragically lost in the 1996 fire that consumed the Hall of Records. The 1994 records were recreated from the charred remains. |