Second-Place Showdown

In honor of the 43rd President of the United States (heh, heh, heh), The Al Gore Cup is a forum for teams that finished second and most likely feel that they're more deserving than all of the other first-place teams to be in the championship bracket.

Teams are seeded 1-4 based on regular season records and play a best-of-seven semifinal round followed by another seven game series to crown the winner.

The winner receives a bonus of 1 million Benchwarmer Bucks.  The runner-up gets 500,000.

The 2017 Entrants (in order of seeding):

1. Nebraska (85-65)
2. Conspiracy (81-69)
3. Minneapolis (79-71)
4. Cincinnati (78-72)

Semifinals - Cincinnati vs. Nebraska; Minneapolis vs. Conspiracy

Nebraska won 4 games to 0

Conspiracy won 4 games to 3

Finals - Conspiracy vs. Nebraska

Season series: Conspiracy won 7-5

2017 Gore Cup Winner - Nebraska won 4 games to 2

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