The 2020 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Ice Hockey Tournament was a planned single-elimination tournament by eight schools to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. The quarterfinals were scheduled to be played at the campuses of the seeded teams on March 14, 2020, with the Frozen Four to be played on March 20 and 22, 2020 at Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston University was scheduled to host the tournament, the second time that it would have hosted the Frozen Four. On March 12, the NCAA announced that the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Qualifying teams
In the sixth year under this qualification format, the winners of all four Division I conference tournaments received automatic berths to the NCAA tournament. The other four teams were selected at-large. The top four teams were then seeded and received home ice for the quarterfinals.
SeedSchoolConferenceRecordBerth typeAppearanceLast bid1CornellECAC28–2–3At-large bid8th20192WisconsinWCHA28–5–3At-large bid14th20193NortheasternHockey East32–4–2Tournament champion 4th20194MinnesotaWCHA27–6–3At-large bid18th2019ClarksonECAC25–6–6At-large bid 9th2019MercyhurstCHA21–10–5Tournament champion 13th2018Ohio StateWCHA24–8–6Tournament champion 2nd2018PrincetonECAC26–6–1Tournament champion4th2019
Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Results National Quarterfinals (1) Cornell vs. Mercyhurst
(2) Wisconsin vs. Clarkson
(3) Northeastern vs. Princeton
(4) Minnesota vs. Ohio State
References