2025 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament
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East Lansing, Michigan
| 2025 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 7–22, 2025 |
| Teams | 7 |
| Finals site | Munn Ice Arena East Lansing, Michigan |
| Champions | Michigan State (2nd title) |
| Winning coach | Adam Nightingale (2nd title) |
| MVP | Isaac Howard (Michigan State) |
Big Ten men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2025 Big Ten Conference men's ice hockey tournament was the eleventh tournament in conference history. It was played between March 7 and March 22, 2025, on-campus locations. As the tournament winner, Michigan State earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2025 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 had a bye to the single-elimination semifinals. The highest-seeded team remaining after the semifinals hosted 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 | |||
| #6 Michigan State †* | 24 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 50 | 92 | 60 | 37 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 129 | 77 | ||
| #9 Minnesota † | 24 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 50 | 87 | 62 | 40 | 25 | 11 | 4 | 154 | 101 | ||
| #11 Ohio State | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 72 | 62 | 40 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 127 | 106 | ||
| #17 Michigan | 24 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 76 | 83 | 36 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 112 | 118 | ||
| #5 Penn State | 24 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 78 | 88 | 40 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 139 | 120 | ||
| Wisconsin | 24 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 27 | 64 | 77 | 37 | 13 | 21 | 3 | 108 | 110 | ||
| Notre Dame | 24 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 60 | 97 | 38 | 12 | 25 | 1 | 102 | 127 | ||
| Championship: March 22, 2025 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll | ||||||||||||||||||
Bracket
| Quarterfinals March 7–9[2] | Semifinals March 15 | Championship March 22 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Michigan State | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Notre Dame | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Minnesota | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Notre Dame | 3 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Michigan State | 4** | ||||||||||||||
| (Teams are reseeded after the Quarterfinal round) | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State | 1 | 3* | 3 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Wisconsin | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Ohio State | 4* | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Penn State | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Michigan | 5 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Penn State | 6* | 5 | — | ||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods.