Josh Morris is your 2025 Chippens Tournament Challenge Champion. The Chippens rookie rewrote the record books with 197 points and an 84.1% pick percentage, exceeding or tying records that had stood for nearly 20 years.
2025 was the only year except for 2008 in which all four #1 seeds advanced to the Final Four. Not only that--all four regional finals were #1 v. #2 matchups, just as Morrie's bracket had it laid out. Some might say that's a happy coincidence for a conservative picker, but we all know luck has nothing to do with it.
"It felt like a chalky year," Morrie said. And that's the type of highly-tuned perceptive and analytical abilities one needs to prevail in the Chippens Tournament Challenge. One can't simply lazily fill out a bracket with all 1 and 2 seeds advancing and hope to win. You have to really feel it for it to work.
For Morrie, it worked wonders.
"In fact, I won three different NCAA pools" in 2025, he noted.
The impressive thing about that is Morrie must have used a virtually identical bracket in each pool to win all three. That's not just an amorphous, passing feeling--a feeling like, uh oh, were those clams I ate an hour ago really ok? No, that's a no-doubt-about-it, full-on, nipple-snapped-in-a-mouse-trap sensation. To submit three identical brackets to three different pools, you have to know exactly what's going on.
Still, as sure as he was, Morrie nonetheless reports checking the scores and standings in those final games "every half minute."
"It was a roller coaster of emotions," he said.
The win has been worth it, though. When the anxiety gave way to euphoria, Morrie said the experience was "11/10" and being crowned champion was the greatest achievement of his life "by a marathon."
"I would recommend winning," he said.
All the glory to Morrie, a Champion for the Ages!
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