2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 2010 at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. North Dakota received the Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions, and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.

Conference standings

Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2009–10 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings
Conference Overall
GP W L T PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
#4 Denver281954429265412710413399
#2 Wisconsin28178337109764328114171111
#5 St. Cloud State2815943490774324145138122
Minnesota–Duluth28161113390774022171126109
#7 North Dakota*2815103338961432513514091
Colorado College28121332788853919173123113
Minnesota28121422680763918192106110
Minnesota State2891722075923916203110112
Alaska–Anchorage2891722066106361123287141
Michigan Tech28424085911836530174148
Championship: North Dakota
indicates conference regular season champion
* indicates conference tournament champion
Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

  First round
March 12–14
Quarterfinal
March 18
Semifinals
March 19
Championship
March 20
                                         
  1 Denver 2 4   1 Denver 3  
10 Michigan Tech 1 2 5 Minnesota-Duluth 0     4 North Dakota 4  
  4 North Dakota 2  
  2 Wisconsin 4 7
9 Alaska Anchorage 1 2
  3 St. Cloud State 4 3 3*     4 North Dakota 5
8 Minnesota State 5* 2 2     3 St. Cloud State 3
  4 North Dakota 6 2 4
7 Minnesota 0 3 1
Third place
  5 Minnesota-Duluth 3* 3 4 2 Wisconsin 0
6 Colorado College 2 5 0 3 St. Cloud State 2   2 Wisconsin 6
1 Denver 3

Note: * denotes overtime periods

(1) Denver vs. (10) Michigan Tech

Denver wins series 2–0

(2) Wisconsin vs. (9) Alaska-Anchorage

Wisconsin wins series 2–0

(3) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Minnesota State

St. Cloud State wins series 2-1

(4) North Dakota vs. (7) Minnesota

North Dakota wins series 2-1

(5) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (6) Colorado College

Minnesota-Duluth wins series 2-1

(4) North Dakota vs. (5) Minnesota-Duluth

(1) Denver vs. (4) North Dakota

(2) Wisconsin vs. (3) St. Cloud State

(2) Wisconsin vs. (1) Denver

(3) St. Cloud State vs. (4) North Dakota

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

[1]

MVP

Evan Trupp, (North Dakota)

References

  1. "WCHA Tourney History". WCHA. Archived from the original on 2014-07-02. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
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