2020 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:2020
Conference:WCHA
Gender:Men's
Dates:March 6–21, 2020
Teams:8
Prevseason Year:2019
Prevseason Link:2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Nextseason Year:2021
Nextseason Link:2021 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2020 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 61st tournament in conference history. It was scheduled to be played between March 6 and March 21, 2020 on campus locations. On March 12, 2020, the WCHA announced the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.[1]

Format

The first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.[2]

The final would have been a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.

Bracket

Note: * denotes overtime periods

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Remainder Of WCHA Postseason Cancelled. wcha.com. March 12, 2020. March 12, 2020.
  2. Web site: WCHA Postseason Tournament - Western Collegiate Hockey Association.