2013 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2013 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 15 and March 23, 2013, at six conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Colorado College Tigers to win their 12th Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions, and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2013 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

2012–13 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#4 St. Cloud State 281891379466 4225161141103
#6 Minnesota 281675379465 40269513980
#7 North Dakota 281477359371 4222137135103
#12 Wisconsin * 281387336964 422213711289
#14 Denver 281495339281 3920145131108
#13 Minnesota State 2816111339068 412414312799
Nebraska–Omaha 2814122309291 3919182127117
Colorado College 2811134268898 4218195133141
Minnesota–Duluth 2810135257583 381419599109
Michigan Tech 288164207592 3713204107116
Bemidji State 285167175887 36622874110
Alaska–Anchorage 2822061052106 36425767133
Championship: March 23, 2013
indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 25, 2013

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  First round
March 15–17
Quarterfinals
March 21
Semifinals
March 22
Championship
March 23
                                         
  1 St. Cloud State 6 5   1 St. Cloud State 1  
12 Alaska-Anchorage 1 1 4 Wisconsin 7     4 Wisconsin 4  
  6 Minnesota State 2  
  2 Minnesota 2* 4
11 Bemidji State 1 3
  3 North Dakota 5 1 6     4 Wisconsin 3
10 Michigan Tech 3 2 0     8 Colorado College 2
  4 Wisconsin 3 4
9 Minnesota Duluth 1 1
  5 Denver 5 1 3 2 Minnesota 0
8 Colorado College 3 2 4 3 North Dakota 3     8 Colorado College 2
  8 Colorado College 4*  
  6 Minnesota State 4* 1 3
7 Nebraska-Omaha 3 2 1

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Results

First round

All times are local.

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (12) Alaska Anchorage

St. Cloud State wins series 2 - 0

(2) Minnesota vs. (11) Bemidji State

Minnesota wins series 2–0

(3) North Dakota vs. (10) Michigan Tech

North Dakota wins series 2 - 1

(4) Wisconsin vs. (9) Minnesota-Duluth

Wisconsin wins series 2–0

(5) Denver vs. (8) Colorado College

Colorado College wins series 2 - 1

(6) Minnesota State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha

Minnesota State wins series 2 - 1

Quarterfinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(4) Wisconsin vs. (6) Minnesota State

(3) North Dakota vs. (8) Colorado College

Semifinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (4) Wisconsin

(2) Minnesota vs. (8) Colorado College

Championship

All times are local (UTC−5).

(4) Wisconsin vs. (8) Colorado College

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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