| Year: | 1968 |
| Gender: | men's |
| Division: | University Division |
| Teams: | 4 |
| Frozenfourarena: | Duluth Arena Auditorium[1] |
| Frozenfourcity: | Duluth, Minnesota |
| Champions: | Denver Pioneers |
| Titlecount: | 4th |
| Champgamecount: | 6th |
| Champffcount: | 7th |
| Runnerup: | North Dakota Fighting Sioux |
| Gamecount: | 4th |
| Runnerffcount: | 6th |
| Semifinal1: | Boston College Eagles |
| Frozenfourcount: | 9th |
| Semifinal2: | Cornell Big Red |
| Frozenfourcount2: | 2nd |
| Coach: | Murray Armstrong |
| Coachcount: | 4th |
| Mop: | Gerry Powers |
| Mopteam: | Denver |
| Attendance: | 13,346 |
The 1968 NCAA Men's University Division Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1967–68 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, the 21st such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 14 and 16, 1968, and concluded with Denver defeating North Dakota 4–0. All games were played at the Duluth Arena Auditorium in Duluth, Minnesota.
Four teams qualified for the tournament, two each from the eastern and western regions. The ECAC tournament champion and the two WCHA tournament co-champions received automatic bids into the tournament. An at-large bid was offered to a second eastern team based upon both their ECAC 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 | Cornell | ECAC Hockey | 26–1–0 | Tournament champion | 2nd | 1967 | 1 | Denver | WCHA | 26–5–1 | Tournament co-champion | 7th | 1966 |
| 2 | Boston College | ECAC Hockey | 19–9–1 | At-Large | 9th | 1965 | 2 | North Dakota | WCHA | 19–9–3 | Tournament co-champion | 6th | 1967 |
The ECAC champion was seeded as the top eastern team while the WCHA co-champion with the better regular season record 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 Duluth Arena 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.
[3] Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| Scoring summary | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Goal | Assist(s) | Time | Score | |||
| 1st | None | |||||||
| 2nd | None | |||||||
| 3rd | align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Bob Trembecky – GW PP | Wiste and Magnuson | align=center | 42:44 | align=center | 1–0 DEN |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Bob Trembecky | Patrick | align=center | 53:16 | align=center | 2–0 DEN | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Al Genovy | Gilmore | align=center | 58:06 | align=center | 3–0 DEN | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | Tom Gilmore | unassisted | align=center | 58:25 | align=center | 4–0 DEN | |
| Shots by period | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | T | ||||||
| align=center style=";" | North Dakota | align=center | 12 | align=center | 3 | align=center | 7 | align=center | 22 | |
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | Denver | align=center | 6 | align=center | 8 | align=center | 14 | align=center | 28 | |
| Goaltenders | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Name | Saves | Goals against | Time on ice | |||||
| align=center style=";" | UND | align=center | 24 | align=center | 4 | align=center | |||
| align=center style="color:white; background:#862633; " | DEN | align=center | 22 | align=center | 0 | align=center | |||
* Most Outstanding Player(s)[5]