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2013 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 2013 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 54th conference playoff in league history and 59th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2013 tournament was played between March 15 and March 23, 2013, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Wisconsin received the Broadmoor Trophy and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All twelve conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 12 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top six seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.

The winners of the first round series advance to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top two teams automatically advancing to the semifinals. All Final Five games will be broadcast by Fox Sports North and carried by Root Sports Rocky Mountain and Fox College Sports Central.

Conference standings

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

Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round

<small>Note: * denotes overtime periods</small>

Results

First round

<small>All times are local.</small>

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (12) Alaska Anchorage

(2) Minnesota vs. (11) Bemidji State

(3) North Dakota vs. (10) Michigan Tech

(4) Wisconsin vs. (9) Minnesota-Duluth

(5) Denver vs. (8) Colorado College

(6) Minnesota State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha

Quarterfinals

<small>All times are local (UTC−5).</small>

(4) Wisconsin vs. (6) Minnesota State

(3) North Dakota vs. (8) Colorado College

Semifinals

<small>All times are local (UTC−5).</small>

(1) St. Cloud State vs. (4) Wisconsin

(2) Minnesota vs. (8) Colorado College

Championship

<small>All times are local (UTC−5).</small>

(4) Wisconsin vs. (8) Colorado College

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Most Valuable Player(s)

References

External links