1988 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

1988 NCAA Division I Men's
Ice Hockey Tournament
Season 1987–88
Teams 12
Finals Site Olympic Center
Lake Placid, New York
Champions Lake Superior State (1st title, 1st title game,
1st Frozen Four)
Runner-Up St. Lawrence (2nd title game,
8th Frozen Four)
Semifinalists Maine (1st Frozen Four)
Minnesota (13th Frozen Four)
Winning Coach Frank Anzalone (1st title)
MOP Bruce Hoffort (Lake Superior State)
Attendance 27,582
NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments
← 1987  1989 →

The 1988 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1987–88 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 41st such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 18 and April 2, 1988, and concluded with Lake Superior State defeating St. Lawrence 4-3 in overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues with the 'Frozen Four' games being played at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York.

For the first time the NCAA tournament was expanded to 12 teams (four more than the previous seven years) partially as a result of an increasing number of programs as well as two additional conferences being created in the interim.

This was the first tournament to include an independent school since 1960, more than a year before the ECAC was founded.

Qualifying teams[1]

The NCAA permitted 12 teams to qualify for the tournament and divided its qualifiers into two regions (East and West). Each of the tournament champions from the four Division I conferences (CCHA, ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA) received automatic invitations into the tournament with At-large bids making up the remaining 8 teams. The NCAA permitted one Independent team to participate in the tournament and placed it in the western bracket with the intention to place an additional independent in the eastern regional in 1989. As a result, the two western conferences (WCHA and CCHA) would split only three open spots as opposed to the East's four open spots.

East West
Seed School Conference Record Berth type Appearance Last bid Seed School Conference Record Berth type Appearance Last bid
1 Maine Hockey East 31–7–2 At-large bid 2nd 1987 1 Minnesota WCHA 32–8–0 At-large bid 15th 1987
2 St. Lawrence ECAC Hockey 27–7–0 Tournament champion 10th 1987 2 Lake Superior State CCHA 30–6–6 At-large bid 2nd 1985
3 Northeastern Hockey East 20–12–4 Tournament champion 2nd 1982 3 Wisconsin WCHA 27–12–2 Tournament champion 9th 1983
4 Harvard ECAC Hockey 21–9–0 At-large bid 13th 1987 4 Bowling Green CCHA 28–11–2 Tournament champion 7th 1987
5 Vermont ECAC Hockey 21–9–3 At-large bid 1st Never 5 Michigan State CCHA 25–14–3 At-large bid 10th 1987
6 Lowell Hockey East 20–15–2 At-large bid 1st Never 6 Merrimack Independent 32–4–0 At-large bid 1st Never

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. The three odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the three even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking with the top two teams in each bracket receiving byes into the quarterfinals. In the first round the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds played two-game aggregate series to determine which school advanced to the Quarterfinals with the winners of the 4 vs. 5 series playing the first seed and the winner of the 3 vs. 6 series playing the second seed. In the Quarterfinals the matches were two-game aggregates once more with the victors advancing to the National Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the St. Paul Civic Center and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game.

Tournament Bracket[2]

  First Round
March 18–20		 Quarterfinals
March 25–27		 Frozen Four
March 31-April 1		 National Championship
April 2
                                             
  E1  Maine 5 4 9  
  W4  Bowling Green 1 3 4  
W4  Bowling Green 5 5 10  
E5  Vermont 1 1 2
  E1  Maine 3  
  W2  Lake Superior State 6  
  W2  Lake Superior State 3 5 8
  W6  Merrimack 4 0 4  
E3  Northeastern 5 3 8  
W6  Merrimack 3 7 10
  W2  Lake Superior State 4*
  E2  St. Lawrence 3
  W1  Minnesota 4 4 8  
  W5  Michigan State 2 3 5  
E4  Harvard 5 3 8  
W5  Michigan State 6 5 11
  W1  Minnesota 2
  E2  St. Lawrence 3  
  E2  St. Lawrence 7 3 10
  W3  Wisconsin 0 4 4  
W3  Wisconsin 7 4 11   Third Place Game
E6  Lowell 3 2 5
E1  Maine 5
W1  Minnesota 2

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

First Round

(E3) Northeastern vs. (W6) Merrimack

Merrimack won series 10–8

(E4) Harvard vs. (W5) Michigan State

Michigan State won series 11–8

(W3) Wisconsin vs. (E6) Lowell

Wisconsin won series 11–5

(W4) Bowling Green vs. (E5) Vermont

Bowling Green won series 10–2

Quarterfinals

(E1) Maine vs. (W4) Bowling Green

Maine won series 9–4

(E2) St. Lawrence vs. (W3) Wisconsin

St. Lawrence won series 10–4

(W1) Minnesota vs. (W5) Michigan State

Minnesota won series 8–5

(W2) Lake Superior State vs. (W6) Merrimack

Lake Superior State won series 8–4

Frozen Four

National Semifinal

(E1) Maine vs. (W2) Lake Superior State

(W1) Minnesota vs. (E2) St. Lawrence

Third Place Game

(E1) Maine vs. (W1) Minnesota

National Championship

(W2) Lake Superior State vs. (E2) St. lawrence

All-Tournament Team[3]

* Most Outstanding Player(s)[4]

References

  1. ↑ "NCAA Division 1 Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Archived from the original on 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
  2. ↑ "NCAA Tournament". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved May 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ "NCAA Frozen Four Records" (PDF). NCAA.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
  4. ↑ "NCAA Division I Awards". College Hockey Historical Archives. Retrieved 2013-07-17.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/15/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.