2020 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament
College ice hockey tournament
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The 2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 61st conference playoff in league history and was to be the 66th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2020 tournament was to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020, at campus sites. 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.[2]
The final would have been a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.
Conference standings
| Conference record | Overall record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | 3/SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| #2 Minnesota State | 28 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 71 | 115 | 38 | 36 | 29 | 5 | 2 | 141 | 53 | |
| #11 Bemidji State | 28 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 65 | 101 | 46 | 34 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 111 | 65 | |
| Northern Michigan | 28 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 50 | 92 | 87 | 36 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 115 | 112 | |
| Alaska | 28 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 49 | 73 | 65 | 34 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 84 | 86 | |
| Bowling Green | 28 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 49 | 85 | 70 | 36 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 112 | 92 | |
| Michigan Tech | 28 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 68 | 65 | 37 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 96 | 85 | |
| Lake Superior State | 28 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 41 | 66 | 77 | 38 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 90 | 112 | |
| Alaska Anchorage | 28 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 56 | 96 | 34 | 4 | 23 | 7 | 66 | 122 | |
| Ferris State | 28 | 5 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 54 | 100 | 35 | 7 | 26 | 2 | 70 | 127 | |
| Alabama–Huntsville | 28 | 2 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 50 | 116 | 34 | 2 | 26 | 6 | 57 | 145 | |
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Michigan Tech | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Alaska | 2 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Bowling Green | 4 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Northern Michigan | 1 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Michigan Tech | 4 | 4*** | — | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Bemidji State | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Bowling Green | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Bemidji State | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Lake Superior State | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods