2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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]
| 2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 6–21, 2020 |
| Teams | 8 |
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments 2021 → | |
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. (teams will NOT be re-seeded with each proceeding round).[2]
The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.
Conference standings
2019–20 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Standings | |||||||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Bowling Green | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Alaska | 2 | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Bowling Green | 4 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Northern Michigan | 1 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Michigan Tech | 4 | 4*** | — | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Bemidji State | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Michigan Tech | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Bemidji State | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Lake Superior State | 0 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods
References
- "Remainder Of WCHA Postseason Cancelled". wcha.com. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- http://wcha.com/men/wcha-tournament/index.php