| Year: | 1963 |
| Gender: | men's |
| Teams: | 4 |
| Frozenfourarena: | McHugh Forum |
| Frozenfourcity: | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts |
| Champions: | North Dakota Fighting Sioux |
| Titlecount: | 2nd |
| Champgamecount: | 3rd |
| Champffcount: | 3rd |
| Runnerup: | Denver Pioneers |
| Gamecount: | 4th |
| Runnerffcount: | 4th |
| Semifinal1: | Clarkson Golden Knights |
| Frozenfourcount: | 4th |
| Semifinal2: | Boston College Eagles |
| Frozenfourcount2: | 7th |
| Coach: | Barry Thorndycraft |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Mop: | Al McLean |
| Mopteam: | North Dakota |
| Attendance: | 16,190 |
The 1963 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1962–63 NCAA men's ice hockey season, the 16th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 14 and 16, 1963, and concluded with North Dakota defeating Denver 6–5. All games were played at the McHugh Forum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Four teams qualified for the tournament, two each from the eastern and western regions. The ECAC tournament champion and the WCHA tournament champion received automatic bids into the tournament. Harvard, the ECAC champion, declined the bid to the tournament and was instead replaced by the runner-up Boston College. Two at-large bids were offered to one eastern and one western team based upon both their tournament finish as well as their regular season record.
| East | West | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid | Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid |
| 1 | Boston College | ECAC Hockey | 22–7–0 | At-Large | 7th | 1959 | 1 | Denver | WCHA | 22–8–1 | Tournament champion | 4th | 1961 |
| 2 | Clarkson | ECAC Hockey | 19–3–2 | At-Large | 4th | 1962 | 2 | North Dakota | WCHA | 20–7–3 | At-Large | 3rd | 1959 |
The ECAC champion was seeded as the top eastern team while the WCHA champion was given the top western seed. The second eastern seed was slotted to play the top western seed and vice versa. All games were played at the Meehan Auditorium. All matches were Single-game eliminations with the semifinal winners advancing to the national championship game and the losers playing in a consolation game.
[2] Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| Scoring summary | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Goal | Assist(s) | Time | Score | |||
| 1st | align=center style=";" | UND | Don Stokaluk | Merrifield and Bartlett | align=center | 1:57 | align=center | 1–0 UND |
| align=center style=";" | UND | Al McLean | Sutherland and Bartlett | align=center | 3:11 | align=center | 2–0 UND | |
| align=center style=";" | UND | Ernie Dyda | Matheson and Merrifield | align=center | 7:25 | align=center | 3–0 UND | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Greg Lacomy | Kenning and Fragomeni | align=center | 12:55 | align=center | 3–1 UND | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Bob Hamill | Wilson and Art | align=center | 13:13 | align=center | 3–2 UND | |
| align=center style=";" | UND | Don Stokaluk | Roberge | align=center | 14:20 | align=center | 4–2 UND | |
| align=center style=";" | UND | Jack Matheson | Ross | align=center | 15:14 | align=center | 5–2 UND | |
| 2nd | align=center style=";" | UND | Al McLean – GW | unassisted | align=center | 25:01 | align=center | 6–2 UND |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Greg Lacomy | Wilson and Johnston | align=center | 27:05 | align=center | 6–3 UND | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Bob Hamill | Staub | align=center | 33:09 | align=center | 6–4 UND | |
| 3rd | align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Bob Hamill | Kowel | align=center | 53:19 | align=center | 6–5 UND |
| Shots by period | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | T | ||||||
| align=center style=";" | North Dakota | align=center | 15 | align=center | 15 | align=center | 9 | align=center | 39 | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | Denver | align=center | 7 | align=center | 8 | align=center | 2 | align=center | 17 | |
| Goaltenders | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Name | Saves | Goals against | Time on ice | |||||
| align=center style=";" | UND | align=center | 12 | align=center | 5 | align=center | |||
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | align=center | 33 | align=center | 6 | align=center | |||
* Most Outstanding Player(s)[4]