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2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

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Teams
  
16

Champions
  
Providence (1st title)

2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

Finals Site
  
TD Garden Boston, Massachusetts

Runner-Up
  
Boston University (11th title game)

Semifinalists
  
North Dakota (21st Frozen Four) Omaha (1st Frozen Four)

Winning coach
  
Nate Leaman (1st title)

The 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2015. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the NCAA, the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four – the semifinals and final – were hosted by Hockey East at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Providence defeated Boston University 4–3 to win the program's first NCAA title.

Tournament procedure

The tournament will consist of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2015 regionals:

March 27 and 28
West Regional, Scheels Arena – Fargo, North Dakota (Host: University of North Dakota) Northeast Regional, Verizon Wireless Arena – Manchester, New Hampshire (Host: University of New Hampshire)
March 28 and 29
East Regional, Dunkin' Donuts Center – Providence, Rhode Island (Host: Brown University) Midwest Regional, Compton Family Ice Arena – South Bend, Indiana (Host: University of Notre Dame)

The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:

April 9–11
TD Garden – Boston, Massachusetts (Host: Hockey East)

Qualifying teams

The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 22. The NCHC had six teams receive a berth in the tournament, ECAC Hockey and Hockey East each had three teams receive a berth, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) had two teams receive a berth, and one team from both the Big Ten Conference and Atlantic Hockey received a berth.

Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.

Tournament bracket

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Television

ESPN has US television rights to all games during the tournament for the eleventh consecutive year. ESPN will air every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, or ESPN3 and will stream them online via WatchESPN. The Sports Network holds Canadian TV rights to all games. The games are across the network on all five feeds—TSN1, TSN2, TSN3, TSN4, and TSN5. Although they are broadcast under the TSN banner, it is actually a simulcast of the ESPN feed with the ESPN announcers.

Broadcast Assignments

Regionals

  • Northeast Regional: Dan Parkhurst & Billy Jaffe – Manchester, New Hampshire
  • West Regional: Clay Matvick & Sean Ritchlin – Fargo, North Dakota
  • East Regional: John Buccigross, Barry Melrose & Quint Kessenich – Providence, Rhode Island
  • Midwest Regional: Ben Holden & Blake Geoffrion – South Bend, Indiana

    • Frozen Four & Championship

  • John Buccigross, Barry Melrose, & Quint Kessenich – Boston, Massachusetts

    • Radio

    Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will air both the semifinals and the championship.

  • Sean Grande, Cap Raeder, & Adam Wodon

    • References

    2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Wikipedia
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