2012 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2012 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament will be played between March 9 and March 17, 2012 at six conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. The winner will receive the Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions, and will be awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All twelve conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 12 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top six seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advance to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top two teams automatically advancing to the semifinals. All Final Five games will be broadcast by Fox Sports North and carried by Root Sports Rocky Mountain and Fox College Sports Central.

Conference Standings

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2011–12 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#4 Minnesota 282080408857 432814115599
#6 Minnesota–Duluth 2816753710373 4125106147106
#12 Denver 281684369679 4325144139111
#5 North Dakota* 2816111338273 4226133135108
Colorado College 2815121319586 3618162114104
St. Cloud State 2812124288674 3917175120104
Nebraska–Omaha 2811125278385 3814186106112
Michigan Tech 2811134268587 3916194111116
Bemidji State 2811143257289 3817183101109
Wisconsin 2811152247683 3717182105102
Minnesota State 2881821873102 3812242101129
Alaska–Anchorage 2852211160111 36925285134
Championship: North Dakota 4, Denver 0
indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  First round
March 11–13
Quarterfinals
March 15
Semifinals
March 16
Championship
March 17
                                         
  1 Minnesota 2 7   1 Minnesota 3  
12 Alaska-Anchorage 1 3 4 North Dakota 4     4 North Dakota 6  
  6 St. Cloud State 1  
  2 Minnesota-Duluth 4 3**
11 Minnesota State 2 2
  3 Denver 0 3 3*     4 North Dakota 4
10 Wisconsin 1 1 2     3 Denver 0
  4 North Dakota 4 4
9 Bemidji State 1 3
  5 Colorado College 1 3 2 Minnesota-Duluth 3
8 Michigan Tech 3 4* 3 Denver 3*     3 Denver 4**
  8 Michigan Tech 2  
  6 St. Cloud State 4 3
7 Nebraska-Omaha 0 1

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Results

(1) Minnesota vs. (12) Alaska-Anchorage

Minnesota Wins Series 2 - 0

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (11) Minnesota State

Minnesota-Duluth Wins Series 2 - 0

(3) Denver vs. (10) Wisconsin

Denver Wins Series 2 - 1

(4) North Dakota vs. (9) Bemidji State

North Dakota Wins Series 2 - 0

(5) Colorado College vs. (8) Michigan Tech

Michigan Tech Wins Series 2 - 0

(6) St. Cloud State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha

St. Cloud State Wins Series 2 - 0

(3) Denver vs. (8) Michigan Tech

(4) North Dakota vs. (6) St. Cloud State

(1) Minnesota vs. (4) North Dakota

(2) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (3) Denver

(3) Denver vs. (4) North Dakota

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

* Most Valuable Player(s)

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References

  1. "WCHA Tourney History". WCHA. Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
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