Men’s Division III NCAA tournament

2013 tournament

Locations, dates:

• First round: Campus sites, March 6. Schedule/results

• Quarterfinals: Campus sites, March 9. Schedule/results

• Semifinals, finals: Herb Brooks Arena, Lake Placid, N.Y., March 15 and 16. Schedule/results

Qualifying teams: 11

Format: Five teams receive byes to the quarterfinals, where they are joined by the winners of three first-round games. All rounds are single elimination.

Automatic qualifiers:

• Pool A: Postseason tournament champions from ECAC East, ECAC Northeast, MASCAC, NESCAC, SUNYAC, MCHA, MIAC and NCHA
• Pool C: Institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not their conference champions, and the remaining teams in Pool B

NCAA Division III men’s ice hockey committee:

• Don W. Olson, St. Scholastica athletic director
• Joseph Sassi, Western New England athletic director
• Brett Petersen, Gustavus Adolphus coach
• Mike McShane, Norwich coach/assistant athletic director

Printable bracket (PDF)

Future sites

2014: Androscoggin Bank Colisée, Lewiston, Maine, March 21-22

NCAA champions

* Plattsburgh’s participation in the tournament was vacated by the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions