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 #2, in which all rounds are scored the same, the overall winner is... Nathan Hampton whose total of 66 points was two better than the runner-up, the CHODR picks. Congratulations to Nathan! As for the individual conference winners... The ECAC saw a three-way tie among CHODR, Nathan Hampton, and Sean Keller, with 16 points each. CHODR's perfect prediction of the championship game score earned first place. Andy Weise took the top spot in Hockey East with 8 points. The WCHA also ended up in a three-way tie among CHODR, Tony Buffa, and Nathan Hampton, who each had 14 points. Once again, CHODR picked the championship game score right ont the nose and took the crown. Charlie Shub's 14 points were good for first place in the NCHC. There was a tie among Jim Dixon, Andy Weise, and Tony Buffa for the top spot in Atlantic Hockey. Jim predicted the championship game score per- fectly and took the honors. In the Big Ten, there was a four-way tie for first among CHODR, Nathan Hampton, Jim Dixon, and myself, each with 8 points. CHODR and Nathan remained tied after the first tiebreaker, but CHODR eked out the win with the second tiebreaker, as its predicted total of goals scored in the tour- nament was one point closer than Nathan's. 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 3-2) to be 5-2, you would get two points; if you picked 4-0, you would get three points; and if you picked 6-1, you would get four 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. As far as tiebreakers that were actually needed: For the ECAC, the championship game score was 3-2. For the WCHA, the championship game score was 3-2. For Atlantic Hockey, the championship game score was 3-2. For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 3-2, and the total number of goals scored in the tournament was 49. 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. OVERALL NAME TOTAL Nathan Hampton 66 CHODR 64 Tony Buffa 60 Andy Weise 60 Bill Fenwick 58 William Sangrey 56 Jim Dixon 54 Charlie Shub 54 Sean Keller 52 Scott Kaplan 52 Mark Lewin 50 Bill Groskreutz 48 USCHO 60 Higher Seed 58 ECAC Tiebreaker 1 Hockey East NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL CHODR 16 3-2 0 Andy Weise 8 Nathan Hampton 16 5-2 2 Nathan Hampton 6 Sean Keller 16 4-3 2 William Sangrey 6 Bill Fenwick 14 Sean Keller 6 Andy Weise 14 Mark Lewin 6 William Sangrey 14 Charlie Shub 6 Tony Buffa 14 Tony Buffa 6 Charlie Shub 14 Bill Fenwick 6 Bill Groskreutz 12 Jim Dixon 6 Jim Dixon 12 CHODR 4 Scott Kaplan 12 Bill Groskreutz 4 Mark Lewin 12 Scott Kaplan 2 USCHO 18 USCHO 4 Higher Seed 14 Higher Seed 4 WCHA Tiebreaker 1 NCHC NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL CHODR 14 3-2 0 Charlie Shub 14 Tony Buffa 14 5-2 2 William Sangrey 12 Nathan Hampton 14 5-3 3 Mark Lewin 12 Bill Fenwick 12 Nathan Hampton 12 Scott Kaplan 12 CHODR 12 Jim Dixon 10 Scott Kaplan 12 Andy Weise 10 Andy Weise 12 Sean Keller 8 Bill Fenwick 10 Mark Lewin 8 Sean Keller 10 Bill Groskreutz 8 Tony Buffa 10 William Sangrey 8 Bill Groskreutz 8 Charlie Shub 6 Jim Dixon 6 USCHO 12 USCHO 10 Higher Seed 12 Higher Seed 10 Atlantic Hockey Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Jim Dixon 12 3-2 0 Andy Weise 12 4-3 2 Tony Buffa 12 6-3 4 CHODR 10 William Sangrey 10 Nathan Hampton 10 Scott Kaplan 10 Charlie Shub 10 Bill Groskreutz 10 Bill Fenwick 8 Sean Keller 6 Mark Lewin 6 USCHO 10 Higher Seed 10 Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 Tiebreaker 2 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Goals Pts CHODR 8 3-2 0 55 6 Nathan Hampton 8 3-2 0 56 7 Jim Dixon 8 4-3 2 Bill Fenwick 8 4-3 2 Bill Groskreutz 6 Sean Keller 6 William Sangrey 6 Mark Lewin 6 Andy Weise 4 Scott Kaplan 4 Charlie Shub 4 Tony Buffa 4 USCHO 6 Higher Seed 8 Bill Fenwick [log in to unmask]