The 2023 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States held from March 23-April 8, 2023. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen FourâÂÂthe semifinals and finalsâÂÂwere hosted by the University of WisconsinâÂÂMadison and Tampa Bay Sports Commission at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
Quinnipiac defeated Minnesota 3âÂÂ2 in overtime to win the program's first NCAA title. The game marked the fifteenth time the NCAA championship game has gone to overtime, and the first time since Minnesota-Duluth's win over Michigan in 2011.
The tournament is composed of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2023 regionals:
Regional semifinals and finals
National semifinals and championship (Frozen Four and championship)
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament was announced on March 19, 2023 on ESPNU.
The Big Ten and ECAC each received four, the NCHC received three, the CCHA and Hockey East both received two, and one team from Atlantic Hockey received a berth.
<small>Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.</small>
<small>* denotes overtime period</small>
<small>Note: All game times are local.</small>
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Most Outstanding Player
ESPN had US television rights to all games during the tournament for the eighteenth consecutive year. ESPN aired every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN2, ESPNews, or ESPNU. Additionally all matches were streamed online via the ESPN app.
Regionals
Frozen Four
Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will broadcast both the semifinals and the championship.