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... Sean Keller whose total of 84 points was ten better than runners-up Andy Weise and Jim Dixon. Congratulations, Sean! As for the individual conference winners... The ECAC went to Sean Keller with 22 points. Sean Keller and Andy Weise tied for the top spot in Hockey East with 16 points each. Sean won it on the first tiebreaker. Adny Weise's 14 points were good for first place in the CCHA. Scott Kaplan, Mark Lewin, and Sean Keller all finished tied atop the NCHC with 10 points each. The first tiebreaker gave the crown to Scott. The Atlantic Hockey race ended in a tie between Scott Kaplan and Jim Dixon, with Scott claiming the top spot on the first tiebreaker. The Big Ten also deadlocked, between Sean Keller and Andy Weise. Sean won the honors on the first tiebreaker. 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. For Atlantic Hockey, the championship game score was 7-0. For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 4-3. 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 Sean Keller 84 Andy Weise 74 Jim Dixon 74 Scott Kaplan 70 Mark Lewin 64 Tony Buffa 62 William Sangrey 56 Bill Fenwick 54 * USCHO 18 Higher Seed 66 * Did not submit picks for all conferences ECAC Hockey East Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts Sean Keller 22 Sean Keller 16 4-2 3 Jim Dixon 20 Andy Weise 16 5-4 6 Scott Kaplan 18 Tony Buffa 14 Andy Weise 14 Scott Kaplan 12 Mark Lewin 14 Jim Dixon 12 Bill Fenwick 14 William Sangrey 10 Tony Buffa 12 Mark Lewin 10 William Sangrey 12 Bill Fenwick 8 USCHO 14 Higher Seed 16 Higher Seed 16 CCHA NCHC Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts Andy Weise 14 Scott Kaplan 10 3-2 2 Sean Keller 12 Mark Lewin 10 4-2 3 Tony Buffa 12 Sean Keller 10 4-3 4 Scott Kaplan 10 Andy Weise 8 Jim Dixon 10 Jim Dixon 8 Mark Lewin 10 Bill Fenwick 8 William Sangrey 10 William Sangrey 6 Bill Fenwick 8 Tony Buffa 6 Higher Seed 10 Higher Seed 6 Atlantic Hockey Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Scott Kaplan 14 5-3 5 Jim Dixon 14 4-3 6 Sean Keller 12 Mark Lewin 10 William Sangrey 10 Andy Weise 10 Tony Buffa 10 Bill Fenwick 10 Higher Seed 10 Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL Score Pts Sean Keller 12 4-2 1 Andy Weise 12 5-2 2 Mark Lewin 10 Jim Dixon 10 Tony Buffa 8 William Sangrey 8 Scott Kaplan 6 Bill Fenwick 6 USCHO 4 Higher Seed 8 -- Bill Fenwick DJF 5/27/94 Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97 LET'S GO RED!!