2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 61st tournament in conference history. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020 on campus locations. On March 12, 2020, the WCHA announced the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[1]

Format

The first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams. (teams will NOT be re-seeded with each proceeding round).[2]

The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.

Conference standings

2019–20 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Standings
Conference record Overall record
GP W L T 3/SW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#2 Minnesota State2823411711153836295214153
#11 Bemidji State2820532651014634209511165
Northern Michigan281611115092873618144115112
Alaska281495249736534161358486
Bowling Green28141043498570361913411292
Michigan Tech2814122044686537191539685
Lake Superior State28111344416677381321490112
Alaska Anchorage284186321569634423766122
Ferris State2852120175410035726270127
Alabama–Huntsville2822061135011634226657145
Championship: March 21, 2020
† indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 1, 2020

Bracket

  Quarterfinals
March 6–8
Semifinals
March 13–15
Championship
March 21
                                     
1 Minnesota State 8 4  
8 Alaska Anchorage 1 2  
  1 Minnesota State  
 
  5 Bowling Green  
4 Alaska 2 2
5 Bowling Green 4 3  
 
 
3 Northern Michigan 1 3  
6 Michigan Tech 4 4***  
  2 Bemidji State
 
  6 Michigan Tech  
2 Bemidji State 2 3 3
7 Lake Superior State 0 5 1  

Note: * denotes overtime periods

References

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