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... Sean Keller who lapped the field with a total of 249 points, 30 better than runner-up Andy Weise. Congratulations, Sean! Scoring note: Minnesota State was the unanimous pick to win the CCHA championship. I know the Mavericks had to win that game twice, but no, I'm not giving out double points ( 1/2 :-) ) As for the individual conference winners... The ECAC was won by Sean Keller with 62 points. Hockey East ended in a tie between Sean Keller and Andy Weise, with 42 points each. Sean took the crown on the first tiebreaker. Andy Weise took the top spot in the CCHA with a perfect 48 points. The NCHC saw a three-way tie among Scott Kaplan, Mark Lewin, and Sean Keller, with 22 points each. The first tiebreaker, and the title, went to Scott. Atlantic Hockey went to Jim Dixon with 43 points. Andy Weise won the Big Ten with 44 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 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 Hockey East, the championship game score was 2-1. For the NCHC, the championship game score was 3-0. Only a couple of USCHO prognosticators submitted tournament picks this year, and neither picked the entire tournament. Their 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 Sean Keller 249 Andy Weise 219 Jim Dixon 188 Scott Kaplan 168 Mark Lewin 166 Tony Buffa 162 William Sangrey 146 Bill Fenwick 124 * USCHO 46 Higher Seed 167 * Did not submit picks for all conferences ECAC Hockey East Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts Sean Keller 62 Sean Keller 42 4-2 3 Jim Dixon 45 Andy Weise 42 5-4 6 Scott Kaplan 37 Tony Buffa 26 Andy Weise 31 Jim Dixon 23 Mark Lewin 31 William Sangrey 20 Bill Fenwick 29 Scott Kaplan 18 Tony Buffa 26 Mark Lewin 15 William Sangrey 24 Bill Fenwick 12 USCHO 30 Higher Seed 29 Higher Seed 33 CCHA NCHC Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts Andy Weise 48 Scott Kaplan 22 3-2 2 Sean Keller 43 Mark Lewin 22 4-2 3 Tony Buffa 40 Sean Keller 22 4-3 4 Jim Dixon 36 Andy Weise 19 Mark Lewin 36 Jim Dixon 15 William Sangrey 36 Bill Fenwick 14 Scott Kaplan 35 William Sangrey 11 Bill Fenwick 32 Tony Buffa 11 Higher Seed 35 Higher Seed 12 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Jim Dixon 43 Andy Weise 44 Scott Kaplan 41 Sean Keller 43 Sean Keller 37 Mark Lewin 39 William Sangrey 36 Jim Dixon 26 Tony Buffa 36 Tony Buffa 23 Andy Weise 35 William Sangrey 19 Mark Lewin 23 Scott Kaplan 15 Bill Fenwick 22 Bill Fenwick 15 Higher Seed 35 USCHO 16 Higher Seed 23 -- Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94 Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97 LET'S GO RED!!