The 1959–60 NCAA men's ice hockey season began in November 1959 and concluded with the
1960 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1960 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1959–60 NCAA men's ice hockey season, the 13th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 17 and 19, 1960, and concluded with Denver defeating Michigan Tech 5 ...
's championship game on March 19, 1960 at the
Boston Arena
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The arena opened in 1910 on what ...
in
Boston
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,
. This was the 13th
season
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in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 66th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.
This was the first season of play for the
WCHA
The Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) is a college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a women's ice hockey-only conference. From 1951 to 1999, it operated a ...
. All seven universities were the same from the previous MCHL/WIHL conference that dissolved after the
1957–58 season.
Michigan
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,
Michigan State
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and
Minnesota
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would continue with both the
Big Ten
The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...
and the WCHA concurrently until
1981
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when Michigan and Michigan State left the WCHA and no longer played sufficient games against the other Big Ten schools to warrant the continuation of the Big Ten ice hockey conference.
The creation of the WCHA also brought the first formalized conference tournament in NCAA hockey history with the winner(s) receiving the first automatic bids into the postseason championship.
Regular season
Season tournaments
Standings
1960 NCAA Tournament
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Player stats
Scoring leaders
The following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season.
''GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes''
Leading goaltenders
The following goaltenders led the league in
goals against average
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at the end of the regular season while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.
''GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% =
Save percentage
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; GAA = Goals against average''
Awards
NCAA
WCHA
References
External links
College Hockey Historical Archives1959–60 NCAA Standings
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NCAA
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