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... Tony Buffa whose total of 72 points was four better than runners-up Andy Weise and Sean Keller. Congratulations, Tony! OVERALL NAME TOTAL Tony Buffa 72 Andy Weise 68 Sean Keller 68 Steve Roth 66 William Krebs 66 Bill Fenwick 66 William Sangrey 62 Mark Lewin 62 * Jim Dixon 44 Higher Seed 70 * Did not submit picks for all conferences As for the individual conference winners... A hard-fought ECAC race saw a six-way tie among William Sangrey, Andy Weise, Jim Dixon, Sean Keller, Tony Buffa, and William Krebs, with 12 points each. The championship-game score tiebreaker went to William Sangrey. Hockey East also came down to a tiebreaker, with Andy Weise, Sean Keller, William Sangrey, and myself tied with 18 points. Andy Weise won the tiebreaker and the top spot. The CCHA was won by me with 14 points. Tony Buffa took the honors in the NCHC with 12 points. Atlantic Hockey went to Andy Weise with 18 points. The Big Ten ended in a five-way tie among Tony Buffa, Andy Weise, Jim Dixon, Mark Lewin, and Steve Roth, with 8 points each. Tony's perfect championship-game score prediction gave him the edge. 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 3-1) to be 5-1, you would get two points; if you picked 5-2, you would get three points; and if you picked 6-3, you would get five 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 3-1. For Hockey East, the championship game score was 6-2. For the Big Ten, the championship game score was 5-4. Also included below are the "Higher Seed" picks showing what would have happened if the higher seed for each game had been picked to win. ECAC Tiebreaker 1 Hockey East Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL Score Pts NAME TOTAL Score Pts William Sangrey 12 3-2 1 Andy Weise 18 5-2 1 Andy Weise 12 4-2 2 Sean Keller 18 4-2 2 Jim Dixon 12 4-2 2 Bill Fenwick 18 4-3 3 Sean Keller 12 4-3 3 William Sangrey 18 3-2 3 Tony Buffa 12 5-2 3 Steve Roth 16 William Krebs 12 6-3 5 William Krebs 16 Bill Fenwick 10 Mark Lewin 14 Steve Roth 10 Tony Buffa 14 Mark Lewin 10 Higher Seed 18 Higher Seed 14 CCHA NCHC NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Bill Fenwick 14 Tony Buffa 12 Jim Dixon 12 Steve Roth 10 William Krebs 12 Sean Keller 10 Tony Buffa 10 William Krebs 8 Sean Keller 10 Mark Lewin 8 Steve Roth 8 William Sangrey 6 William Sangrey 8 Andy Weise 6 Mark Lewin 8 Bill Fenwick 4 Andy Weise 6 Higher Seed 8 Higher Seed 8 Atlantic Hockey Big Ten Tiebreaker 1 NAME TOTAL NAME TOTAL Score Pts Andy Weise 18 Tony Buffa 8 5-4 0 Tony Buffa 16 Andy Weise 8 4-3 2 Steve Roth 14 Jim Dixon 8 3-2 4 William Sangrey 14 Mark Lewin 8 3-2 4 William Krebs 14 Steve Roth 8 3-2 4 Mark Lewin 14 Bill Fenwick 6 Bill Fenwick 14 William Krebs 4 Sean Keller 14 William Sangrey 4 Jim Dixon 12 Sean Keller 4 Higher Seed 14 Higher Seed 8 -- Bill Fenwick AJF 5/27/94 Cornell '86 and '95 JCF 12/2/97 LET'S GO RED!!