2020 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

2020 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
Dates	March 6–21, 2020
Teams	8
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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.[2]

The final would have been a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.

Conference standings

2019–20 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Standings v t e
	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

References

1. "Remainder Of WCHA Postseason Cancelled". wcha.com. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
2. "WCHA Postseason Tournament - Western Collegiate Hockey Association".