1999 ECAC Tournament

The 1999 ECAC Tournament took place between March 12, 1999 and March 20, 1999 for the Men's Division I league and between March X, 1999 and March XX, 1999 for the Women's Division I league.

Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

Tournament
The regular season champions were the Clarkson Golden Knights.

The seeds for the men's tournament were:


 * 1. Clarkson
 * 2. St. Lawrence
 * 3. Rensselaer
 * 4. Princeton
 * 5. Yale
 * 6. Colgate
 * 7. Cornell
 * 8. Harvard
 * 9. Vermont
 * 10. Brown

Dartmouth and Union did not qualify for the tournament.

First Round
The first round was played during March 12-14 at the site of the higher seed. The first team to accrue 3 points advanced to the Final Five.

ECAC Final Five
The ECAC Championships took place March 18-20 at 1980 Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, New York. The games were single-elimination.

On March 18th, the two lowest seeds, Princeton and Colgate, competed in the Play-in game.

On March 19th, the remaining four teams took part in the semifinal round.

The semifinal losers, Rensselaer and Princeton, played in the consolation game on March 20th.

St. Lawrence and Clarkson met in the ECAC Championship game, being played miles from the North Country region that both schools call home. 8,469 watched Clarkson, playing in its third straight ECAC championship game, win its first ECAC title since 1993, and fourth in school history. Knights defenseman Willie Mitchell was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Clarkson was awarded the ECAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Clarkson and St. Lawrence would both represent the ECAC in the NCAA tournament.