| Year: | 1964 |
| Gender: | men's |
| Teams: | 4 |
| Frozenfourarena: | University of Denver Arena |
| Frozenfourcity: | Denver, Colorado |
| Champions: | Michigan Wolverines |
| Titlecount: | 7th |
| Champgamecount: | 8th |
| Champffcount: | 12th |
| Runnerup: | Denver Pioneers |
| Gamecount: | 5th |
| Runnerffcount: | 5th |
| Semifinal1: | Rensselaer Engineers |
| Frozenfourcount: | 4th |
| Semifinal2: | Providence Friars |
| Frozenfourcount2: | 1st |
| Coach: | Al Renfrew |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Mop: | Bob Gray |
| Mopteam: | Michigan |
| Attendance: | 16,278 |
The 1964 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1963–64 NCAA men's ice hockey season, the 17th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 19 and 21, 1964, and concluded with Michigan defeating Denver 6–3. All games were played at the University of Denver Arena in Denver, Colorado.
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. 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 | Providence | ECAC Hockey | 19–5–0 | Tournament champion | 1st | Never | 1 | Denver | WCHA | 19–6–4 | Tournament champion | 5th | 1963 |
| 2 | Rensselaer | ECAC Hockey | 17–7–0 | At-Large | 4th | 1961 | 2 | Michigan | WCHA | 22–4–1 | At-Large | 12th | 1962 |
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=";" | UM | Wilf Martin | Hood and Polanic | align=center | 17:48 | align=center | 1–0 UM |
| 2nd | align=center style=";" | UM | Mel Wakabayashi – PP | Ferguson and Wilkie | align=center | 22:19 | align=center | 2–0 UM |
| align=center style=";" | UM | Jack Cole | Wilkie | align=center | 23:22 | align=center | 3–0 UM | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Bill Staub – PP | Herrebout and Lindsay | align=center | 25:34 | align=center | 3–1 UM | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Ron Livingstone | Sampson and Naslund | align=center | 37:24 | align=center | 3–2 UM | |
| 3rd | align=center style=";" | UM | Jack Cole – GW | Polanic and Wilkie | align=center | 44:08 | align=center | 4–2 UM |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Wayne Smith – PP | Herrebout | align=center | 49:54 | align=center | 4–3 UM | |
| align=center style=";" | UM | Mel Wakabayashi | Coristine and Ferguson | align=center | 56:49 | align=center | 5–3 UM | |
| align=center style=";" | UM | Alex Hood | Polanic and Martin | align=center | 58:24 | align=center | 6–3 UM | |
| Shots by period | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | T | ||||||
| align=center style=";" | Michigan | align=center | 7 | align=center | 6 | align=center | 16 | align=center | 29 | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | Denver | align=center | 15 | align=center | 10 | align=center | 9 | align=center | 34 | |
| Goaltenders | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Name | Saves | Goals against | Time on ice | |||||
| align=center style=";" | UM | align=center | 31 | align=center | 3 | align=center | |||
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | align=center | 23 | align=center | 6 | align=center | |||
* Most Outstanding Player(s)[4]