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 result was a four-way tie among Scott Kaplan, Nathan Hampton, Tony Buffa, and William Sangrey. The tiebreaker for overall contest winner is the number of individual conference contests won, so with Scott winning two of them, Nathan and Tony one each, and William none, the overall contest winner is... Scott Kaplan with a total of 48 points. Congratulations, Scott! As for the individual conference winners... The ECAC saw a five-way tie among Sean Keller, Nathan Hampton, John Edwards, Tony Buffa, and Richard Vehlow, with 2 points each. Sean won on the first tiebreaker, predicted championship-game score. Scott Kaplan and William Sangrey tied for top honors in the Hockey East race with 12 points each. Scott took the crown with the first tiebreaker. Jim Dixon won the WCHA crown with a total of 8 points. The NCHC went to Tony Buffa with 14 points. Nathan Hampton's 14 points were good for first place in Atlantic Hockey. The Big Ten ended in a three-way tie among Scott Kaplan, Nathan Hampton, and Tony Buffa, with 10 points each. The first tiebreaker gave the win to Scott. 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 Hockey East, the championship game score was 1-0. For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 6-4. 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 Scott Kaplan 48 (2 conference wins) Nathan Hampton 48 (1) Tony Buffa 48 (1) William Sangrey 48 (0) Sean Keller 46 Jim Dixon 42 Bill Fenwick 42 Mark Lewin 40 * John Edwards 22 * Richard Vehlow 2 USCHO 50 Higher Seed 50 * Did not submit picks for all conferences ECAC Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Sean Keller 2 4-2 1 Nathan Hampton 2 4-3 2 John Edwards 2 3-0 2 Tony Buffa 2 5-3 3 Richard Vehlow 2 5 Scott Kaplan 0 Jim Dixon 0 William Sangrey 0 Bill Fenwick 0 Mark Lewin 0 USCHO 8 Higher Seed 8 Hockey East Tiebreaker 1 WCHA NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL Scott Kaplan 12 3-1 3 Jim Dixon 8 William Sangrey 12 4-3 6 Bill Fenwick 6 John Edwards 10 Mark Lewin 6 Sean Keller 10 Nathan Hampton 6 Tony Buffa 10 Scott Kaplan 6 Bill Fenwick 8 William Sangrey 6 Jim Dixon 8 Sean Keller 4 Mark Lewin 8 Tony Buffa 4 Nathan Hampton 6 USCHO 8 USCHO 8 Higher Seed 8 Higher Seed 6 NCHC Atlantic Hockey NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Tony Buffa 14 Nathan Hampton 14 William Sangrey 12 Bill Fenwick 12 Sean Keller 12 John Edwards 10 Nathan Hampton 10 Mark Lewin 10 Scott Kaplan 10 Sean Keller 10 Mark Lewin 10 Scott Kaplan 10 Jim Dixon 8 William Sangrey 10 Bill Fenwick 8 Jim Dixon 10 Tony Buffa 8 USCHO 12 Higher Seed 12 USCHO 10 Higher Seed 14 Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Scott Kaplan 10 4-2 4 Nathan Hampton 10 3-2 5 Tony Buffa 10 2-1 7 Bill Fenwick 8 Jim Dixon 8 William Sangrey 8 Sean Keller 8 Mark Lewin 6 USCHO 10 Higher Seed 8 -- Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94 Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97 LET'S GO RED!!