ECAC West men's tournament explained

ECAC West men's tournament
Optional Subheader:	Conference hockey championship
Defunct:	2017
Sport:	Ice hockey
Conference:	ECAC West
Format:	Single-elimination
Years:	1985–2017
Current Champion:	Hobart
Most Championships:	Elmira (9)

The ECAC West men's tournament was a Division III conference tournament held from establishment of the ECAC West as an independent league until the dissolution of the conference in 2017.

History

The ECAC West men's tournament began in 1985, a year after the ECAC West split from ECAC 2 and followed the same format it had during the time in its predecessor. In the first 8 years the champion received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. In 1992 an effort was made by some universities to restart the Division II Championship. Because Mercyhurst was one such team all SUNYAC members were forced to leave the conference and membership dropped to 7 schools. This necessitated a change to the conference tournament which was decreased from 8 to 4 participants. During the 90's the league would routinely send members to both the D-II and D-III national tournaments but all efforts at continuing the second-tier tournament ended after 1998.

The 4-member tournament continued unabated until 2007 when a single quarterfinal game was instituted. This arrangement held for six years before a second quarterfinal match was instituted and the 6-team tournament continued until the entire tournament was discontinued in 2017 due to the conference's dissolution.

1985

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	20–2–0	5	Geneseo State	19–9–1
2	Plattsburgh State	19–4–0	6	Elmira	16–7–0
3	Union	14–4–1	7	Potsdam State	12–12–0
4	Oswego State	20–8–0	8	-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1986

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	22–3–0	5	Oswego State	18–9–1
2	Elmira	21–4–0	6	Geneseo State	15–12–1
3	Plattsburgh State	16–5–1	7	Canisius	12–8–1
4	Union	13–7–0	8	-	-

Note: Canisius was invited to play in the tournament despite not being an ECAC West member

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1987

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Plattsburgh State	23–1–0	5	Canisius	13–9–0
2	Hamilton	15–5–0	6	Elmira	14–8–0
3	Oswego State	20–9–0	7	Geneseo State	16–13–0
4	RIT	13–6–0	8	-	-

Note: Canisius was invited to play in the tournament despite not being an ECAC West member

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1988

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	20–2–0	5	RIT	13–7–1
2	Plattsburgh State	19–6–0	6	Hamilton	12–9–0
3	Oswego State	18–7–0	7	Canisius	10–7–0
4	Union	12–7–2	8	-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1989

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	19–2–1	5	Elmira	14–7–0
2	Hamilton	17–6–0	6	Canisius	13–9–0
3	Union	16–6–1	7	Geneseo State	14–13–1
4	Oswego State	17–8–1	8	Cortland State	11–11–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1990

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	16–2–2	5	Plattsburgh State	17–8–1
2	Elmira	19–3–1	6	Union	14–5–3
3	Mercyhurst	16–3–2	7	Hamilton	13–9–1
4	Geneseo State	19–7–0	8	Oswego State	13–12–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1991

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	23–3–0	5	Fredonia State	14–9–1
2	Mercyhurst	15–3–0	6	Union	16–4–3
3	RIT	14–5–2	7	Cortland State	10–12–1
4	Geneseo State	21–3–3	8	Oswego State	12–12–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1992

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Plattsburgh State	24–1–2	5	Geneseo State	15–10–1
2	Elmira	18–4–0	6	Oswego State	15–8–2
3	Mercyhurst	13–8–0	7	RIT	11–11–2
4	Fredonia State	14–9–1	8	Hobart	12–12–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1993

Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	19–5–0
2	Mercyhurst	15–3–0
3	Canisius	17–6–1
4	Hobart	14–8–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1994

Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	9–1–0
2	Canisius	7–3–0
3	RIT	6–4–0
4	Mercyhurst	6–4–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1995

Seed	School	Conference record
1	Mercyhurst	6–1–1
2	RIT	5–2–1
3	Canisius	4–2–2
4	Elmira	2–4–2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1996

Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	5–2–1
2	Canisius	5–2–1
3	Mercyhurst	5–3–0
4	Elmira	4–4–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1997

Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	8–1–1
2	Elmira	5–3–2
3	Mercyhurst	5–4–1
4	Canisius	1–8–2

Note: Niagara possessed the second best record in the conference but was ineligible for tournament playNote: * denotes overtime period(s)

1998

Seed	School	Conference record
1	Niagara	8–1–1
2	RIT	7–1–2
3	Mercyhurst	4–5–1
4	Canisius	4–5–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

1999

Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	4–0–2
2	Elmira	4–1–1
3	Mercyhurst	2–3–1
4	Hobart	0–6–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2000

Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	5–1–0
2	Elmira	5–1–0
3	Manhattanville	1–5–0
4	Hobart	1–5–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2001

Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	6–0–0
2	Elmira	3–3–0
3	Manhattanville	2–3–1
4	Hobart	0–5–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2002

Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	9–1–0
2	Elmira	8–2–0
3	Manhattanville	5–4–1
4	Hobart	5–5–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2003

Seed	School	Conference record
1	RIT	8–1–1
2	Manhattanville	7–3–0
3	Elmira	6–3–1
4	Hobart	4–5–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2004

Seed	School	Conference record
1	Hobart	7–2–1
2	Manhattanville	6–2–2
3	RIT	6–2–2
4	Utica	4–5–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2005

Seed	School	Conference record
1	Utica	9–1–2
2	Manhattanville	8–3–1
3	RIT	7–4–1
4	Elmira	6–5–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2006

Seed	School	Conference record
1	Manhattanville	11–2–2
2	Hobart	10–5–0
3	Elmira	8–6–1
4	Utica	7–6–2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2007

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Manhattanville	9–1–5	4	Elmira	7–6–2
2	Neumann	8–3–4	5	Hobart	5–7–3
3	Utica	7–5–3		-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2008

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	10–2–3	4	Hobart	7–6–2
2	Manhattanville	8–5–2	5	Neumann	8–7–0
3	Utica	8–6–1		-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2009

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	9–3–3	4	Neumann	8–5–2
2	Manhattanville	8–3–4	5	Utica	5–9–1
3	Hobart	9–4–2		-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2010

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	11–4–0	4	Neumann	7–5–3
2	Manhattanville	10–4–1	5	Utica	4–9–2
3	Hobart	9–4–2		-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2011

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	8–3–1	4	Hobart	4–7–1
2	Neumann	7–4–1	5	Manhattanville	3–9–0
3	Utica	6–5–1		-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2012

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Elmira	8–2–2	4	Utica	4–6–2
2	Manhattanville	6–6–0	5	Neumann	3–6–3
3	Hobart	5–6–1		-	-

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2013

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Utica	11–3–1	4	Manhattanville	6–6–3
2	Hobart	11–3–1	5	Elmira	5–10–0
3	Neumann	8–6–1	6	Nazareth	1–14–0

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2014

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Utica	10–4–1	4	Manhattanville	5–8–2
2	Elmira	9–5–1	5	Neumann	4–8–3
3	Hobart	7–5–3	6	Nazareth	4–9–2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2015

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Hobart	12–3–0	4	Elmira	5–8–2
2	Neumann	9–5–1	5	Utica	4–8–3
3	Nazareth	7–4–4	6	Manhattanville	2–11–2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2016

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Hobart	12–3–0	4	Neumann	6–7–2
2	Manhattanville	8–7–0	5	Nazareth	5–9–1
3	Utica	6–6–3	6	Elmira	4–9–2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

2017

Seed	School	Conference record	Seed	School	Conference record
1	Utica	12–2–0	4	Nazareth	8–6–0
2	Manhattanville	10–4–0	5	Neumann	7–6–1
3	Hobart	9–4–1	6	Stevenson	4–9–1

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Championships

School	Years	Championships
Elmira	33	9
RIT	21	8
Hobart	33	5
Manhattanville	18	4
Plattsburgh State	8	2
Neumann	16	1
Mercyhurst	11	1
Union	7	1
Niagara	2	1
Utica	16	0
Canisius	11	0
Brockport State	8	0
Cortland State	8	0
Geneseo State	8	0
Hamilton	8	0
Oswego State	8	0
Potsdam State	8	0
Lebanon Valley	7	0
St. Bonaventure	7	0
Binghamton	5	0
Fredonia State	5	0
Nazareth	5	0
Buffalo	3	0
Scranton	3	0
Stevenson	1	0

See also

ECAC 2 Tournament

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