The 2013 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 54th conference playoff in league history and 59th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The 2013 tournament was played between March 15 and March 23, 2013, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Wisconsin received the Broadmoor Trophy and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. All twelve conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 12 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top six 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, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top two teams automatically advancing to the semifinals. All Final Five games will be broadcast by Fox Sports North and carried by Root Sports Rocky Mountain and Fox College Sports Central.
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
Results First round All times are local.
(1) St. Cloud State vs. (12) Alaska Anchorage
(2) Minnesota vs. (11) Bemidji State
(3) North Dakota vs. (10) Michigan Tech
(4) Wisconsin vs. (9) Minnesota-Duluth
(5) Denver vs. (8) Colorado College
(6) Minnesota State vs. (7) Nebraska-Omaha
Quarterfinals All times are local (UTC−5).
(4) Wisconsin vs. (6) Minnesota State
(3) North Dakota vs. (8) Colorado College
Semifinals All times are local (UTC−5).
(1) St. Cloud State vs. (4) Wisconsin
(2) Minnesota vs. (8) Colorado College
Championship All times are local (UTC−5).
(4) Wisconsin vs. (8) Colorado College
Tournament awards
All-Tournament Team F Tyler Barnes (Wisconsin) F Nic Kerdiles* (Wisconsin) F Rylan Schwartz (Colorado College) D John Ramage (Wisconsin) D Peter Stoykewych (Colorado College) G Joel Rumpel (Wisconsin) * Most Valuable Player(s)
References
External links Western Collegiate Hockey Association WCHA Men's First Round Playoff Pairings Set FOX Sports North to Televise 2013 Red Baron Final Five 2013 WCHA Tournament Information 2013 Red Baron WCHA Final Five