2024 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
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East Lansing, Michigan
| 2024 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 8–23, 2024 |
| Teams | 7 |
| Finals site | Munn Ice Arena East Lansing, Michigan |
| Champions | Michigan State (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Adam Nightingale (1st title) |
| MVP | Trey Augustine (Michigan State) |
Big Ten men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2024 Big Ten Conference men's ice hockey tournament was the tenth tournament in conference history. It was played between March 8 and March 23, 2024, on-campus locations. As the tournament winner, Michigan State earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.
The tournament featured a format with all games taking place on the campus of the higher-seeded teams. The tournament will open with three best-of-three quarterfinal series, as the second, third and fourth-seeded teams each hosting a series. The top-seeded team will have a bye to the single-elimination semifinals. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals will host the championship game.[1]
Conference standings
| Conference record | Overall record | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | OTW | OTL | 3/SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | |||
| #5 Michigan State †* | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 92 | 69 | 38 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 147 | 117 | ||
| #11 Wisconsin | 24 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 50 | 81 | 57 | 40 | 26 | 12 | 2 | 128 | 81 | ||
| #7 Minnesota | 24 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 80 | 65 | 39 | 23 | 11 | 5 | 135 | 100 | ||
| #4 Michigan | 24 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 85 | 77 | 41 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 169 | 125 | ||
| Notre Dame | 24 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 66 | 62 | 36 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 101 | 98 | ||
| Penn State | 24 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 62 | 92 | 36 | 15 | 18 | 3 | 113 | 130 | ||
| Ohio State | 24 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 50 | 94 | 38 | 14 | 20 | 4 | 100 | 124 | ||
| Championship: March 23, 2024 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated April 11, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded for the semifinals
| Quarterfinals March 8–10[2] | Semifinals March 16 | Championship March 23 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Michigan State | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Ohio State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wisconsin | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Ohio State | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Michigan State | 5* | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Michigan | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Minnesota | 5 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Penn State | 1 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Minnesota | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Michigan | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Michigan | 5 | 4 | — | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Notre Dame | 4 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods.