# 2014 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament

The 2014 Big Ten Conference Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the first tournament in conference history, and was played between March 20 and March 22, 2014 at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The winner of the tournament was the Wisconsin Badgers, who earned the Big Ten's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

## Format

All six Big Ten teams participated in the tournament, which was a single-elimination format. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 6 according to the final regular season conference standings. In the quarterfinals on Thursday, No. 3 played No. 6 and No. 4 played No. 5. On Friday, No. 2 played the winner of the first game and No. 1 played the winner of the second game (the teams were not reseeded). The two semifinal winners played each other on Saturday in the final.

### Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
2013–14 Big Ten ice hockey standingsvte :
| | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Conference record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record | Overall record |
| | GP | W | L | T | SOW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #2 Minnesota$^†$ | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 45 | 59 | 37 | 41 | 28 | 7 | 6 | 143 | 86 |
| #7 Wisconsin* | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 63 | 46 | 37 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 120 | 95 |
| #16 Michigan | 20 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 68 | 59 | 35 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 107 | 89 |
| #20 Ohio State | 20 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 53 | 55 | 37 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 119 | 100 |
| Michigan State | 20 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 42 | 55 | 36 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 79 | 93 |
| Penn State | 20 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 42 | 75 | 36 | 8 | 26 | 2 | 80 | 129 |
| Championship: Wisconsin † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 23, 2014 ||||||||||||||||

## Bracket

| Quarterfinals March 20 | Quarterfinals March 20 | Quarterfinals March 20 | Semifinals March 21 | Semifinals March 21 | Semifinals March 21 | Championship March 22 | Championship March 22 | Championship March 22 |
| | | | 2 | Wisconsin | 2 | | | |
| 3 | Michigan | 1 | 6 | Penn State | 1 | | | |
| 6 | Penn State | 2** | | | | 2 | Wisconsin | 5* |
| | | | | | | 4 | Ohio State | 4 |
| | | | 1 | Minnesota | 1 | | | |
| 4 | Ohio State | 2* | 4 | Ohio State | 3 | | | |
| 5 | Michigan State | 1 | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime periods

### Quarterfinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

#### (4) Ohio State vs. (5) Michigan State
### Semifinals

All times are local (UTC−5).

#### (1) Minnesota vs. (4) Ohio State
### Championship

All times are local (UTC−5).

#### (2) Wisconsin vs. (4) Ohio State
### Tournament awards
#### Most Outstanding Player

* Center: Mark Zengerle

#### All-Tournament Team

* Goaltender: Christian Frey (Ohio State)
* Defensemen: Drew Brevig (Ohio State), Frankie Simonelli (Wisconsin)
* Forwards: Ryan Dzingel (Ohio State), Michael Mersch (Wisconsin), Mark Zengerle (Wisconsin)