# 2010 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 2010 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 2010 at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. North Dakota received the Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions, and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

## Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned 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 WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.

### Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
2009–10 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standingsvte :
| | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall |
| | GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #4 Denver† | 28 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 42 | 92 | 65 | 41 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 133 | 99 |
| #2 Wisconsin | 28 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 37 | 109 | 76 | 43 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 171 | 111 |
| #5 St. Cloud State | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 34 | 90 | 77 | 43 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 138 | 122 |
| Minnesota–Duluth | 28 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 33 | 90 | 77 | 40 | 22 | 17 | 1 | 126 | 109 |
| #7 North Dakota* | 28 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 33 | 89 | 61 | 43 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 140 | 91 |
| Colorado College | 28 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 27 | 88 | 85 | 39 | 19 | 17 | 3 | 123 | 113 |
| Minnesota | 28 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 26 | 80 | 76 | 39 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 106 | 110 |
| Minnesota State | 28 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 20 | 75 | 92 | 39 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 110 | 112 |
| Alaska–Anchorage | 28 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 20 | 66 | 106 | 36 | 11 | 23 | 2 | 87 | 141 |
| Michigan Tech | 28 | 4 | 24 | 0 | 8 | 59 | 118 | 36 | 5 | 30 | 1 | 74 | 148 |
| Championship: North Dakota † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Final rankings: USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Top 15 Poll |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round
| First round March 12–14 | First round March 12–14 | First round March 12–14 | First round March 12–14 | First round March 12–14 | Quarterfinal March 18 | Quarterfinal March 18 | Quarterfinal March 18 | Semifinals March 19 | Semifinals March 19 | Semifinals March 19 | Championship March 20 | Championship March 20 | Championship March 20 |
| 1 | Denver | 2 | 4 | — | | | | | | | | | |
| 10 | Michigan Tech | 1 | 2 | — | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | 1 | Denver | 3 | | | |
| 2 | Wisconsin | 4 | 7 | — | 5 | Minnesota-Duluth | 0 | 4 | North Dakota | 4 | | | |
| 9 | Alaska Anchorage | 1 | 2 | — | 4 | North Dakota | 2 | | | | | | |
| 3 | St. Cloud State | 4 | 3 | 3* | | | | | | | 4 | North Dakota | 5 |
| 8 | Minnesota State | 5* | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | 3 | St. Cloud State | 3 |
| 4 | North Dakota | 6 | 2 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | Minnesota | 0 | 3 | 1 | | | | 2 | | | | Wisconsin | 0 |
| | | | | | | | | 3 | St. Cloud State | 2 | | | |
| 5 | Minnesota-Duluth | 3* | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | Colorado College | 2 | 5 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime periods

### First round
#### (1) Denver vs. (10) Michigan Tech

* Denver wins series 2–0

#### (2) Wisconsin vs. (9) Alaska-Anchorage

* Wisconsin wins series 2–0

#### (3) St. Cloud State vs. (8) Minnesota State

* St. Cloud State wins series 2-1

#### (4) North Dakota vs. (7) Minnesota

* North Dakota wins series 2-1

#### (5) Minnesota-Duluth vs. (6) Colorado College

* Minnesota-Duluth wins series 2-1

### Championship
#### (3) St. Cloud State vs. (4) North Dakota
## Tournament awards
### All-Tournament Team

* F Derrick Lapoint (North Dakota)
* F Tony Mosey (St. Cloud State)
* F Chris VandeVelde (North Dakota)
* D Ben Blood (North Dakota)
* D Garrett Raboin (St. Cloud State)
* G Brad Eidsness (North Dakota)

### MVP

Evan Trupp, (North Dakota)