Dates March 13–21, 2015 | Teams 8 | |
Finals site Xcel Energy Center
St. Paul, Minnesota Champions Minnesota State (2nd title) Winning coach Mike Hastings (2nd title) MVP Brad McClure (Minnesota State) | ||
The 2015 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 13 and March 21, 2015, at four conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Contents
Format
The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. The top eight or ten conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.
The winners of the first round series advance to the Xcel Energy Center for the WCHA Final Five, a holdover from previous tournaments where it was used as the collective name of the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.
Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round
Note: * denotes overtime periods
First round
All times are local.
Semifinals
All times are local (UTC−5).
Championship
All times are local (UTC−5).
All-Tournament Team
* Most Valuable Player