2024 CCHA men's ice hockey tournament explained

Year:2024
Conference:CCHA
Gender:men's
Dates:March 8–22, 2024
Teams:8
Finalarena:Sanford Center
Finalcity:Bemidji, Minnesota
Champions:Michigan Tech
Titlecount:1st
Coach:Joe Shawhan
Coachcount:1st
Prevseason Year:2023
Prevseason Link:2023 CCHA men's ice hockey tournament
Nextseason Year:2025
Nextseason Link:2025 CCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 2024 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 45th tournament in the history of the men's Central Collegiate Hockey Association. It began on March 8 and ended on March 22, 2024. All games were played at home campus sites.

Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format, while the semifinals and final are single games held at the campus sites of the highest remaining seeds. All eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams are 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 hosted one of the lower-seeded teams.[1] The teams that advance out of the quarterfinals are reseeded according to the regular season standings. The semifinals and final are single-elimination games. The winners of the semifinals play one another to determine the conference tournament champion.

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinalsNote: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

Note: All game times are local.

Quarterfinals

(1) Bemidji State vs. (8) Ferris State

Bemidji State wins series 2–0

(2) St. Thomas vs. (7) Lake Superior State

Lake Superior State wins series 2–1

(3) Michigan Tech vs. (6) Bowling Green

Michigan Tech wins series 2–0

(4) Minnesota State vs. (5) Northern Michigan

Minnesota State wins series 2–0

Semifinals

(3) Michigan Tech vs. (4) Minnesota State

Championship

(1) Bemidji State vs. (3) Michigan Tech

Tournament awards

Most Valuable Player

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Composite Schedule . CCHA . March 3, 2024.