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

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