Teams 12 | ||
Finals Site Knickerbocker Arena
Albany, New York Champions Lake Superior State (2nd title) Runner-Up none
(Wisconsin vacated) (- title game) Semifinalists Michigan State (8th Frozen Four)
Michigan (14th Frozen Four) Winning coach Jeff Jackson (1st title) | ||
The 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 12 schools competing to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. Beginning with the 1992 tournament the format was changed to single-elimination play for all rounds of the tournament. First and quarterfinal rounds were played at two predetermined sites as the East and West Regionals. The tournament began on March 26, 1992, and ended with the championship game on April 4 in which Lake Superior State defeated the University of Wisconsin 5-3. A total of 11 games were played. Wisconsin's participation in the tournament was vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.
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As of 2016, Alaska-Anchorage's 1992 participation is the last by an independent school.
Qualifying teams
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced after the conference tournaments concluded. The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), Hockey East and Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) all had three teams receive a berth in the tournament, the ECAC had two berths, and there was one independent Division I bid.
* Maine was required to forfeit 13 victories after the season concluded, their total here was their record at the time of the start of the tournament.
^ These teams records reflect the losses they had against Maine at the time that were later overturned.
Game locations
Tournament Bracket
Wisconsin's participation in the 1992 tournament was later vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
All-Tournament Team
* Most Outstanding Player(s)
† Participation of D: Barry Richter and F: Jason Zent vacated when Wisconsin's participation in tournament later vacated