The 2020 NCHC Tournament was the seventh

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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

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. On March 12, 2020, NCHC announced that the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the

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, before any games were played.

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

for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a

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format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.

Standings

Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals * denotes overtime periods

References

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