2012 CCHA men's ice hockey tournament

2012 CCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
2012 CCHA Men's ice hockey tournament
	2012 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament Logo
Dates	March 2–17, 2012
Teams	11
Finals site	Joe Louis Arena; Detroit, Michigan
Champions	Western Michigan (2nd title)
Winning coach	Andy Murray (1st title)
MVP	Frank Slubowski (Western Michigan)
Attendance	60,741 (all games)
Top scorer	Dan DeSalvo (Bowling Green); (13 points)
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The 2012 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 41st CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It will be played between March 2 and March 17, 2012 at campus locations and at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Western Michigan won the Mason Cup and they earned the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

Format

The tournament features four rounds of play. In the first round the sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings play a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first-round winner, the second seed and second-lowest-ranked first-round winner, the third seed and second-highest-ranked first-round winner, and the fourth seed and the fifth seed play a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest seeds play a single game, with the winner advancing to the championship game and the loser advancing to the third-place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.

Regular season standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against

2011–12 Central Collegiate Hockey Association standings v t e
	Conference								Overall
	GP	W	L	T	SW	PTS	GF	GA	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#2 Ferris State†	28	16	7	5	1	54	80	62	43	26	12	5	124	94
#7 Michigan	28	15	9	4	1	50	85	60	41	24	13	4	132	89
#14 Western Michigan*	28	14	10	4	4	50	72	61	41	21	14	6	114	92
#8 Miami	28	15	11	2	1	48	74	55	41	24	15	2	122	86
#15 Michigan State	28	14	11	3	2	47	80	68	39	19	16	4	111	103
#20 Northern Michigan	28	11	11	6	3	42	76	79	37	17	14	6	106	102
Lake Superior State	28	11	13	4	4	41	71	79	40	18	17	5	102	108
#19 Notre Dame	28	12	13	3	0	39	65	73	40	19	18	3	101	107
Ohio State	28	11	12	5	1	39	74	79	35	15	15	5	91	92
Alaska	28	0^	28^	0^	0^	30	63	76	36	0^	36^	0^	84	94
Bowling Green	28	5	19	4	3	22	40	88	44	14	25	5	85	129
Championship: Michigan 2, Western Michigan 3 † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll ^ Alaska was retroactively required to forfeit all wins and ties due to player ineligibilities.^[1]

Bracket

First round March 2–4					Quarterfinals March 9–11					Semifinals March 16			Championship March 17

					1	Ferris State	2	7	3
8	Notre Dame	2	4	—	11	Bowling Green	3	4	4
9	Ohio State	0	2	—						3	Western Michigan	6
										4	Miami	2
					4	Miami	6	4	—
					5	Michigan State	0	1	—
													2	Michigan	2
													3	Western Michigan	3
					3	Western Michigan	4	5	—
6	Northern Michigan	4	3	1	7	Lake Superior State	2	2	—
11	Bowling Green	2	5	4						2	Michigan	3*	Third place
										11	Bowling Green	2
					2	Michigan	2	3	—				4	Miami	4
7	Lake Superior State	4	2	—	8	Notre Dame	1	1	—				11	Bowling Green	1
10	Alaska	3	0	—