1993 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament | |
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Dates | March 12–20, 1993 |
Teams | 10 |
Finals site | Civic Center St. Paul, Minnesota |
Champions | Minnesota [1] (8th title) |
Winning coach | Doug Woog [2] (1st title) |
MVP | Travis Richards [3] (Minnesota) |
Attendance | 50,737 |
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments |
The 1993 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 34th conference playoff in league history and 41st season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 1993. First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Five' matches were held at the Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1993 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All nine conference teams participated in the tournament as did Alaska-Anchorage which was slated to join the WCHA as a full member the following year. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 9 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated while Alaska-Anchorage was seeded tenth. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Civic Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two playing in a quarterfinal game. The semifinal pitted the top remaining seed against the winner of the quarterfinal game while the two other teams that received byes were matched against one another with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a Third Place contest. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1993 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
Conference | Overall | |||||||||||||
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GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
Minnesota-Duluth† | 32 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 44 | 161 | 118 | 40 | 27 | 11 | 2 | 202 | 142 | |
Wisconsin | 32 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 39 | 138 | 107 | 42 | 24 | 15 | 3 | 192 | 146 | |
Minnesota* | 32 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 39 | 128 | 123 | 42 | 22 | 12 | 8 | 167 | 155 | |
Michigan Tech | 32 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 35 | 134 | 116 | 37 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 151 | 134 | |
Northern Michigan | 32 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 34 | 135 | 122 | 43 | 21 | 18 | 4 | 178 | 161 | |
Denver | 32 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 32 | 122 | 138 | 38 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 143 | 156 | |
St. Cloud State | 32 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 30 | 121 | 123 | 36 | 15 | 18 | 3 | 143 | 141 | |
North Dakota | 32 | 11 | 20 | 1 | 23 | 118 | 146 | 38 | 12 | 25 | 1 | 138 | 173 | |
Colorado College | 32 | 6 | 26 | 0 | 12 | 110 | 174 | 36 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 134 | 195 | |
Championship: Minnesota † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |
Teams are reseeded after the first round
First Round March 12–13 | Quarterfinal March 18 | Semifinals March 19 | Championship March 20 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Minnesota-Duluth | 7 | 4 | — | ||||||||||||||||
10 | Alaska-Anchorage | 2 | 0 | — | ||||||||||||||||
1 | Minnesota-Duluth | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | Wisconsin | 6 | 10 | — | 4 | Michigan Tech | 3 | 5 | Northern Michigan | 6 | ||||||||||
9 | Colorado College | 3 | 3 | — | 5 | Northern Michigan | 4 | |||||||||||||
3 | Minnesota | 6 | 5* | — | 3 | Minnesota | 5 | |||||||||||||
8 | North Dakota | 4 | 4 | — | 5 | Northern Michigan | 3 | |||||||||||||
4 | Michigan Tech | 3 | 6 | — | ||||||||||||||||
7 | St. Cloud State | 1 | 5 | — | 2 | Wisconsin | 2 | |||||||||||||
3 | Minnesota | 3* | ||||||||||||||||||
5 | Northern Michigan | 5 | 7 | — | ||||||||||||||||
6 | Denver | 3 | 0 | — | ||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
March 12 | Minnesota-Duluth | 7 – 2 | Alaska-Anchorage | Duluth Arena Auditorium |
March 13 | Minnesota-Duluth | 4 – 0 | Alaska-Anchorage | Duluth Arena Auditorium |
Minnesota-Duluth won series 2–0 | |
March 12 | Wisconsin | 6 – 3 | Colorado College | Dane County Coliseum |
March 13 | Wisconsin | 10 – 3 | Colorado College | Dane County Coliseum |
Wisconsin won series 2–0 | |
March 12 | Minnesota | 6 – 4 | North Dakota | Mariucci Arena |
March 13 | Minnesota | 5 – 4 | OT | North Dakota | Mariucci Arena |
Minnesota won series 2–0 | |
March 12 | Michigan Tech | 3 – 1 | St. Cloud State | MacInnes Student Ice Arena |
March 13 | Michigan Tech | 6 – 5 | St. Cloud State | MacInnes Student Ice Arena |
Michigan Tech won series 2–0 | |
March 12 | Northern Michigan | 5 – 3 | Denver | Lakeview Arena |
March 13 | Northern Michigan | 7 – 0 | Denver | Lakeview Arena |
Northern Michigan won series 2–0 | |
March 18 | Michigan Tech | 3 – 4 | Northern Michigan | Civic Center |
March 19 | Minnesota-Duluth | 2 – 6 | Northern Michigan | Civic Center |
March 19 | Wisconsin | 2 – 3 | OT | Minnesota | Civic Center |
March 20 | Minnesota-Duluth | 7 – 5 | Wisconsin | Civic Center |
March 20 | Minnesota | 5 – 3 | Northern Michigan | Civic Center |
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