The National Collegiate Hockey Conference tournament is the conference tournament for the
NCHC. The winner of the tournament received an automatic berth into the
NCAA Tournament which has occurred every year the NCHC has been in existence, with the exception of 2011. The tournament is a successor to the
CCHA Tournament which was discontinued after the conference dissolved due to the
major realignment of ice hockey conferences that culminated in 2013–14.
The inaugural tournament was held in 2014 and included all 8 member teams in a three-round championship.
NCHC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament champions
Formats
; 2014
The NCHC Tournament begins with three-round format featuring all conference teams. The quarterfinals consist of four
best-of-three
There are a number of formats used in various levels of competition in sports and games to determine an overall champion. Some of the most common are the ''single elimination'', the ''best-of-'' series, the ''total points series'' more commonly kn ...
series while all subsequent rounds are
single-elimination
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...
.
Championship appearances
From 2014–present
By school
By coach
Formation
After the Big Ten announced it was forming a hockey conference beginning with the
2013–14 season several teams from 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 ...
decided to break from the conference and form a new contingent. As traditional powers
Denver
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and
North Dakota
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were among the teams leaving the NCHC's invitation to some of the remaining
CCHA teams was appealing enough to get two more universities to join, swelling the NCHC's ranks to eight. Eventually all of the CCHA teams joined other conferences prior to 2013–14 necessitating its dissolution.
References
External links
The Official Site of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference
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