With the CHA finishing its tournament last weekend, we have our first winner in the Pick the Post-season Tournaments Contest #1.  Given that only one person was dumb enough to pick against obvious favorite Bemidji State, the CHA winner was me, with 24 points.

Note that since the CHA consolation game ended in a tie, anyone who picked Robert Morris or Bemidji State to win the consolation was awarded 2 points.

Currently, the overall contest lead is held by myself, with a score of 101 points.

Scoring reminder:  Three points were awarded for each correctly predicted winner in a conference's first round/quarterfinal.  An additional bonus point was given for correctly forecasting the number of games (2 or 3) a series would go.  The bonus point did not apply to the CHA, which had no quarterfinal round.

Scoring for the rest of the contest is as follows:  4 points for correctly picking the winner of each play-in/finals qualifier game (WCHA only), 8 points for correctly picking semifinal winners, 4 points for picking the consolation winner (ECAC, CCHA, and WCHA only), and 16 points for picking the championship game winner.

Here is the scoring so far, overall and for each conference.  Also included are the scores for the predictions by the USCHO staff (who, it should be pointed out, didn't have to pick all the games at once) and a "Higher Seed" entry, showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win.  Thus, in the "Higher Seed" entry, all first-round/quarterfinal series get picked as sweeps.


Overall
NAME                    TOTAL
Bill Fenwick             101
Nick Markham              89
Robert Hamilton           89
Craig Roberts             86
Andy Weise                86
Tony Buffa                86
Scott Kaplan              86
Mark Lewin                84
Bill Groskreutz           83
Wayne Smith               82
John Edwards              82
Troy D. Mills             78
Jim Dixon                 76
William Sangrey           76
Nathan Hampton            75
Charlie Shub              72
Bill Krebs                65

USCHO                     89
Higher Seed               82


CHA
NAME                   TOTAL
Bill Fenwick            24
Robert Hamilton         10
Craig Roberts           10
John Edwards            10
Andy Weise              10
Tony Buffa              10
Bill Groskreutz         10
Scott Kaplan             8
Bill Krebs               8
Wayne Smith              0
Jim Dixon                0
Charlie Shub             0
Troy D. Mills            0
William Sangrey          0
Mark Lewin               0
Nick Markham             0
Nathan Hampton           0

USCHO                   10
Higher Seed              0


ECACH                           Hockey East
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Mark Lewin              21      Nick Markham            12
Bill Groskreutz         21      Jim Dixon               12
William Sangrey         21      Bill Fenwick            12
Andy Weise              19      Tony Buffa              11
John Edwards            19      Craig Roberts           11
Robert Hamilton         18      Nathan Hampton          10
Wayne Smith             18      Andy Weise               9
Nick Markham            17      Scott Kaplan             8
Scott Kaplan            17      Robert Hamilton          8
Troy D. Mills           17      Wayne Smith              8
Tony Buffa              16      Charlie Shub             8
Charlie Shub            13      Bill Groskreutz          8
Bill Krebs              12      William Sangrey          8
Nathan Hampton          12      Mark Lewin               7
Craig Roberts           11      John Edwards             7
Jim Dixon               11      Troy D. Mills            7
Bill Fenwick             7      Bill Krebs               4

USCHO                   17      USCHO                    7
Higher Seed             13      Higher Seed             10


CCHA                            WCHA
NAME                   TOTAL    NAME                   TOTAL
Nick Markham            25      Nick Markham            20
Jim Dixon               24      Troy D. Mills           20
Scott Kaplan            23      Bill Fenwick            19
Bill Fenwick            22      Nathan Hampton          19
Tony Buffa              21      Robert Hamilton         19
Craig Roberts           21      Wayne Smith             19
Andy Weise              21      William Sangrey         19
Robert Hamilton         21      Mark Lewin              19
Wayne Smith             20      Craig Roberts           16
Mark Lewin              20      Scott Kaplan            16
John Edwards            20      Andy Weise              15
Nathan Hampton          19      Charlie Shub            15
Charlie Shub            19      Bill Groskreutz         15
Troy D. Mills           17      Bill Krebs              15
Bill Krebs              12      Jim Dixon               14
Bill Groskreutz         11      Tony Buffa              14
William Sangrey         11      John Edwards            12

USCHO                   26      USCHO                   15
Higher Seed             27      Higher Seed             17


Atlantic Hockey
NAME                   TOTAL
Bill Groskreutz         18
Troy D. Mills           17
Bill Fenwick            17
Wayne Smith             17
William Sangrey         17
Mark Lewin              17
Craig Roberts           17
Charlie Shub            17
Nick Markham            15
Nathan Hampton          15
Jim Dixon               15
Scott Kaplan            14
Bill Krebs              14
Tony Buffa              14
John Edwards            14
Robert Hamilton         13
Andy Weise              12

USCHO                   14
Higher Seed             15

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