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The 2020 NCHC Tournament was the seventh tournament in league history. It was scheduled to be played between March 13 and 21, 2020. Quarterfinal games were to be played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were to be played at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. On March 12, 2020, NCHC announced that the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, before any games were played.[1]

Format[]

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All eight 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 advanced to the Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.[2]

Standings[]

National Collegiate Hockey Conference
Team GP W L OL GF GA Pts
North Dakota Fighting Hawks 24 17 4 3 86 49 56
Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs 24 17 5 2 89 53 53
Denver Pioneers 24 11 8 5 74 57 42
Western Michigan Broncos 24 12 9 3 84 73 41
St. Cloud State Huskies 24 10 12 2 61 74 33
Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks 24 8 13 3 63 75 27
Miami RedHawks 24 5 16 3 61 89 20
Colorado College Tigers 24 4 17 3 48 96 16

Bracket[]

Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals

  Quarterfinals
March 13–15
Semifinals
March 20
Championship
March 21
                               
  1  North Dakota         
8  Colorado College         
  2  Western Michigan
7  St. Cloud State           
        
  3  Denver
6  Omaha
Third Place
  4  Minnesota–Duluth       
5  Miami                
      

* denotes overtime periods

References[]

  1. NCHC Tournament Cancelled Effective Immediately (March 12, 2020). Retrieved on March 12, 2020.
  2. Format. Retrieved on 14 April 2017.


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