This Week’s Guests: Barry Parkhill and Twitter’s “Phony Bennett”

Last week was unusual in that 12-3 is normally a very good record. But if you went 12-3 last week, you had the worst record on the panel.

Scott, Jerry and guest Rick Mast all went 14-1. The remaining guest – Tony Barnhart – was 13-2. Dave was 12-3, finished last among the group and fell to second place, two games behind Scott. Jerry’s 14-1 moved him up a few games, and now he is only three games out of second.

This week’s guests include Virginia basketball legend Barry Parkhill, who is currently Virginia’s Associate Athletic Director for Development. Parkhill – who was Virginia’s first ACC Player of the Year after the 1971-72 season, was also a first-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers, but chose instead to play in Norfolk for the Virginia Squires. The practice courts at the John Paul Jones Arena are named for Parkhill.  Our other guest is fan favorite and Twitter legend Chris Dembitz. You may not be familiar at first with the name because you may normally see him by his Twitter name, Phony Bennett. Over 14,000 people follow @ifTonyTweeted to see every day what would be said “if Tony Tweeted.”

The panel is unanimous in picking Virginia Tech to beat Georgia Tech tonight, and four of the five panelists like Virginia to continue their winning ways with a win over North Carolina Saturday.

Here are this week’s picks:

	Dave	Scott	Jerry	Tony Barnhart	Rick Mast
	72-33	72-33	67-38	0-0	0-0
Virginia at Duke	Duke	Virginia	Virginia	Duke	Virginia
UNC at Syracuse	Syracuse	Syracuse	Syracuse	Syracuse	Syracuse
NC State at Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson	Clemson
Wake at Florida State	Florida St.	Florida St.	Florida St.	Florida St.	Florida St.
Stanford at Arizona St.	Stanford	Arizona St.	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford
Auburn at Ole Miss	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Ole Miss
Illinois at Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin	Wisconsin
Maryland at Iowa	Iowa	Iowa	Iowa	Iowa	Iowa
Michigan at Mich St.	Michigan St.	Michigan	Michigan	Michigan St.	Michigan
Oklahoma at TCU	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma	Oklahoma
Alabama at Tenn.	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama	Alabama
Colorado at Washington	Washington	Washington	Washington	Washington	Washington
Miss. St. at LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU	LSU
Oregon at Wash. St.	Oregon	Wash. St.	Oregon	Wash. St	Wash. St.
USC at Utah	Utah	Utah	USC	Utah	Utah