CHAMPION'S CORNER

October 14th, 1994, in San Gabriel Valley Medical Center in Los Alamitos, CA your 2025 Jack McLaughlin's March Madness Bracket Invitational Champion, Jared "Cue Ball" Owen was born. Many say you could feel a sudden burst of energy early that afternoon. Rumor has it when "Cue Ball" was born, there was a generational storm with hail, rain, thunder and lightning. This was beautiful foreshadowing of how "Que-ball's" 2025 Bracket would cast a storm an any other bracket it came across. After briefly taking to his parents, I knew that Jared "Cue Ball" Owen was destined for greatness. "From a young age we knew 'Cue Ball' had nothing but potential." his mom continued, "He was a standout baseball player and even better with the ladies, but we did not think he had this in him". Not many have the power of that "Cue Ball" possesses.

Jared "Cue Ball" Owen is not just a bracket making machine, he's also been known to rip some lips. As a young lad, "Cue Ball"  won the 2005 Avalon Green Pleasure Pier Fishing Derby. He caught an astounding and embellished 14 fish in 1 hour. Talk about a man that can do it all.

The "Cue Ball" would like to point out that his haters will claim that he tailed brackets of prominent college basketball analysts, but this could not be further from the truth. To let you in on "Cue Ball's" little secret to his bracket perfection, he met a psychic gypsy behind Mutt's one night, handed her the phone, and the rest is history.

"Cue Ball's" Favorite thing about Jack McLaughlin's March Madness Bracket Invitational is that "these are the best players in the world". He added, "This is what you grow up dreaming about and work so hard for, to get to this moment and compete with the best is surreal. I am humbled and honored to be a part of Jack McLaughlin's March Madness Bracket Invitational"

Unlike our first two champions, Jared "Cue Ball' Owen did something with the winnings that his mother would be proud of, He stuck his winnings in a high yield savings account. He not only fills out brackets safely, but also is fiscally responsible. 

Luka "The Hefty Lefty" Vasilivic grew up in Mission Viejo, California by way of Torrance, California. A west coast boy through and through gained the respect of Jack McLaughlin's March Madness Bracket Invitational's scouts via his water polo skills. One scout said, "When he plays water polo he looks like he can see into the future". If you combine that along with being a south paw many have called collusion on "The Hefty Lefty" saying he might be a witch. We cannot prove anything all we know is that he took Uconn to win it all, and that punched his ticket to become our first ever Jack McLaughlin's March Madness Bracket Invitational Champion. 

A fun fact about Luka is that he "knows" UCSD will be your 2026 March Madness Champion. His sources claim that the next Lebron James is committed to UC San Diego. He strongly recommends to hammer the Tritons to the final four at 1000/1 odds. If this hit this would be his second greatest feat behind being our inaugural champion. 

Luka "The Hefty Lefty" has been training for this invitational since before it was even an idea. He would like to give credit to the countless hours of degenerate gambling throughout the years. When it came to crunch time he knew what to do, and did not shy away from the bright lights. 

"The Hefty Lefty's" favorite part about Jack McLaughlin's March Madness Bracket Invitational is all of the compliments that he got while wearing the winner's Jacket. He claims, "Tens of thousands have olympic medals, Thousands have won a Super Bowl, hundreds have won majors in golf, I was the ONLY person to win this coveted Jacket"

Naturally money that is won in this fashion is free money, as a finance bro he re-invested it into the Denver Nugget's 2023 championship stock. Unfortunately for "The Hefty Lefty", that did not work out as he had anticipated.