The 1980 CIAU Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (18th annual) was held at the Sherwood Ice Sports Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. The Regina Cougars served as tournament host.
Road to the Cup AUAA playoffs
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GPAC playoffs
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OUAA playoffs
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QUAA playoffs
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Canada West playoffs
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University Cup The format was mostly unchanged from the year before. The only alteration was that the selection committee chose to admit defending national champion and Canada West runner-up Alberta instead of GPAC runner-up Brandon. This was done partially because the two conferences had played an interlocking schedule during the season. The six teams were sorted by a committee prior to the tournament and arranged so that the host and wild card teams would be in opposite brackets.
In the round-robin groups, the teams that finished with the best record would advance to the championship game. If there was a tie for the best record, the first tie-breaker was goal differential. If there was a tie in goal differential, the teams would play sudden death overtime for the advantage.
TeamQualificationRecordAppearanceLastWild-card20–11–013th1979West: Canada West Champion20–11–03rd1976 Quebec: QUAA Champion19–6–25th1979Ontario: OUAA Champion18–8–33rd1979Atlantic: AUAA Champion26–5–13rd1978Plains: GPAC Champion / Host15–9–03rd1979
Bracket
Note: * denotes overtime period(s) Note: round-robin games were played on consecutive days March 13–15
Championship final
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