| Year: | 1979 |
| Conference: | WCHA |
| Gender: | Men's |
| Dates: | March 6–11, 1979 |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Finalarena: | Williams Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota Winter Sports Center |
| Finalcity: | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
| Champions: | Minnesota†[1] (6th title) North Dakota‡[2] |
| Titlecount: | 3rd |
| Coach: | Herb Brooks[3] (4th title) John Gasparini[4] |
| Coachcount: | 1st |
| Prevseason Year: | 1978 |
| Prevseason Link: | 1978 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament |
| Nextseason Year: | 1980 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1980 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament |
The 1979 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 20th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 6 and March 11, 1979. All games were played at home team campus sites, including each of the two regional final series. By winning the regional tournaments, both Minnesota and North Dakota were invited to participate in the 1979 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Though not official designations, Minnesota is considered as the East Regional Champion† and North Dakota as the West Regional Champion‡.
The top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. In the first round the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds were matched in two-game series where the school that scored the higher number of goals was declared the winner. After the first round the remaining teams were reseeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to their final conference standings and advanced to the second round. In the second round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds competed in an additional two-game, total goal series with the winners of each being declared as co-conference champions.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against[5]
[6] Teams are reseeded after the first roundNote: * denotes overtime period(s)
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