With the conference post-season tournaments over and the NCAA tournament almost upon us, it's time to announce the winners of the Pick the Post- Season Tournament contests. For Contest #1, in which the later rounds were weighted more than the earlier ones, the overall winner is... Charlie Shub whose total of 186 points bested runner-up Nathan Hampton by 19. Congratu- lations to Charlie on his amazing prognosticating skills and his sheer overwhelming knowledge of college hockey. (mumble pure luck mumble) As for the individual conference winners... The ECAC race was won by Tony Buffa with 31 points. Also with 31 points, Nathan Hampton took the Hockey East crown. John Edwards won in the WCHA with 30 points. Scott Kaplan finished atop the NCHC with 50 points. Charlie Shub's 38 points were good for first place in Atlantic Hockey. The Big Ten went to William Sangrey with 43 points. Complete scoring results are below. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks again to all those who participated. Tiebreaker notes: The first tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted championship-game score and the actual score. Thus, if you picked the score of the ECAC championship game (actually 2-1) to be 4-1, you would get two points; if you picked 4-0, you would get three points; and if you picked 6-2, you would get five points. Obviously, the lower the point score the better. The second tiebreaker was the difference between your predicted total of goals scored in the entire tournament and the actual number. Again, the lower the point total the better. After all that, no tiebreakers were needed in the contest. The USCHO prognosticators' numbers are included below, as are the "Higher Seed" picks showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win. It should be noted that the USCHO staff did not pick the games all at once, the way the rest of us did, which in some cases was especially advantageous. OVERALL NAME TOTAL Charlie Shub 186 Nathan Hampton 167 Sean Keller 158 Tony Buffa 152 Bill Fenwick 150 Mark Lewin 150 William Sangrey 149 Scott Kaplan 141 Jim Dixon 138 * John Edwards 127 Andy Weise 114 * Craig Knowles 16 USCHO 180 Higher Seed 149 * Did not submit picks for all conferences ECAC Hockey East NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Tony Buffa 31 Nathan Hampton 31 Sean Keller 29 Charlie Shub 29 Nathan Hampton 28 Jim Dixon 27 Charlie Shub 28 William Sangrey 26 John Edwards 28 Mark Lewin 25 Scott Kaplan 27 Tony Buffa 25 Jim Dixon 21 Scott Kaplan 24 William Sangrey 21 Sean Keller 24 Bill Fenwick 20 John Edwards 22 Mark Lewin 19 Andy Weise 21 Andy Weise 18 Bill Fenwick 18 Craig Knowles 16 USCHO 29 Higher Seed 20 USCHO 24 Higher Seed 23 WCHA NCHC NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL John Edwards 30 Scott Kaplan 50 Sean Keller 23 Bill Fenwick 43 Bill Fenwick 22 Nathan Hampton 42 William Sangrey 20 Sean Keller 41 Charlie Shub 19 Mark Lewin 38 Jim Dixon 18 Charlie Shub 33 Mark Lewin 15 Tony Buffa 26 Tony Buffa 14 William Sangrey 25 Scott Kaplan 14 Jim Dixon 19 Andy Weise 14 Andy Weise 18 Nathan Hampton 11 USCHO 21 USCHO 20 Higher Seed 30 Higher Seed 18 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Charlie Shub 38 William Sangrey 43 Sean Keller 26 Jim Dixon 42 Mark Lewin 22 Tony Buffa 40 Bill Fenwick 20 John Edwards 40 Tony Buffa 16 Nathan Hampton 40 Nathan Hampton 15 Charlie Shub 39 William Sangrey 14 Andy Weise 32 Scott Kaplan 11 Mark Lewin 31 Jim Dixon 11 Bill Fenwick 27 Andy Weise 11 Sean Keller 15 John Edwards 7 Scott Kaplan 15 USCHO 46 USCHO 40 Higher Seed 14 Higher Seed 44 Bill Fenwick [log in to unmask]