| Year: | 1999 |
| Gender: | men's |
| Division: | Division I |
| Teams: | 12 |
| Frozenfourarena: | Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim |
| Frozenfourcity: | Anaheim, California |
| Champions: | Maine Black Bears |
| Titlecount: | 2nd |
| Champgamecount: | 3rd |
| Champffcount: | 6th |
| Runnerup: | New Hampshire Wildcats |
| Gamecount: | 1st |
| Runnerffcount: | 5th |
| Semifinal1: | Boston College Eagles |
| Frozenfourcount: | 15th |
| Semifinal2: | Michigan State Spartans |
| Frozenfourcount2: | 9th |
| Coach: | Shawn Walsh |
| Coachcount: | 2nd |
| Mop: | Alfie Michaud |
| Mopteam: | Maine |
| Attendance: | 69,429 |
The 1999 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament involved 12 schools in playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I. It began on March 26, 1999. The second round was on March 27 and March 28. The semifinals were on April 1. The National Championship Game was on April 3, 1999. A total of 11 games were played, the final 3 at the Arrowhead Pond (now the Honda Center) in Anaheim, CA. The University of Maine defeated New Hampshire by a score of 3–2 in overtime, to claim their second national championship.
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced after the conference tournaments concluded on March 20, 1999. The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, Hockey East and Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) each had three teams receive a berth in the tournament, while the ECAC had two berths.
| West Regional – Madison | East Regional – Worcester | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid | Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth type | Appearance | Last bid | |
| 1 | North Dakota (1) | WCHA | 32–5–2 | At-large bid | 15th | 1998 | 1 | New Hampshire (2) | Hockey East | 29–6–3 | At-large bid | 10th | 1998 | |
| 2 | Michigan State | CCHA | 28–5–7 | At-large bid | 19th | 1998 | 2 | Clarkson | ECAC | 25–10–1 | Tournament champion | 18th | 1998 | |
| 3 | Colorado College | WCHA | 28–11–1 | At-large bid | 13th | 1998 | 3 | Maine | Hockey East | 27–6–4 | At-large bid | 9th | 1995 | |
| 4 | Boston College | Hockey East | 25–11–4 | Tournament champion | 20th | 1998 | 4 | Denver | WCHA | 26–12–2 | Tournament champion | 15th | 1997 | |
| 5 | Northern Michigan | CCHA | 22–14–5 | At-large bid | 7th | 1993 | 5 | Michigan | CCHA | 24–10–6 | Tournament champion | 22nd | 1998 | |
| 6 | St. Lawrence | ECAC | 23–12–3 | At-large bid | 13th | 1992 | 6 | Ohio State | CCHA | 21–15–4 | At-large bid | 2nd | 1998 | |
Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
| Scoring summary | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | Team | Goal | Assist(s) | Time | Score | ||||
| align=center | 1st | align=center style=";" | Maine | Ben Guité (12) – PP | Vitorino and Kerluke | align=center | 15:47 | align=center | 1–0 Maine |
| 2nd | align=center style=";" | Maine | Niko Dimitrakos (8) | Cullen and Metcalf | align=center | 33:47 | align=center | 2–0 Maine | |
| align=center style=";" | UNH | Darren Haydar (31) – SH | Souza and Conklin | align=center | 35:58 | align=center | 2–1 Maine | ||
| align=center | 3rd | align=center style=";" | UNH | Michael Souza (23) | Krog and Haydar | align=center | 43:33 | align=center | 2–2 |
| align=center | 1st Overtime | align=center style=";" | Maine | Marcus Gustafsson (13) – GW | Larose | align=center | 70:50 | align=center | 3–2 Maine |
| Goaltenders | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Name | Saves | Goals against | Time on ice | |||||
| align=center style=";" | Maine | align=center | 46 | align=center | 2 | align=center | |||
| align=center style=";" | UNH | align=center | 36 | align=center | 3 | align=center | |||
* Most Outstanding Player(s)[2]
| Conference |
| Record | Win % | Regional semifinals | Frozen Four | Championship Game | Champions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2-4 | .333 | 2 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Hockey East | 3 | 8-2 | .800 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| WCHA | 3 | 1-3 | .250 | 2 | - | - | - | |
| ECAC | 2 | 0-2 | .000 | 1 | - | - | - |