Year: | 2020 |
Conference: | NCHC |
Gender: | Men's |
Dates: | March 13–21, 2020 |
Teams: | 8 |
Finalarena: | Xcel Energy Center |
Finalcity: | Saint Paul, Minnesota |
Television: | CBS Sports Network |
Prevseason Year: | 2019 |
Prevseason Link: | 2019 NCHC Tournament |
Nextseason Year: | 2021 |
Nextseason Link: | 2021 NCHC Tournament |
The 2020 NCHC Tournament was the seventh tournament 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 Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. On March 12, 2020, NCHC announced that the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, before any games were played.[1]
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 Xcel Energy Center for the NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff uses a single-elimination format. Teams are re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.[2]
Teams are reseeded for the Semifinals