# 2024 NCHC Tournament

The 2024 NCHC Tournament was the 10th tournament in league history. It was played between March 15 and 23, 2024. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four matches were held at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. As the tournament winner, Denver earned the NCHC's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament.

## Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earn 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 NCHC Frozen Faceoff. The Frozen Faceoff used a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.

### Standings

2023–24 National Collegiate Hockey Conference Standingsvte :
| | Conference record | Conference record | 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 | OTW | OTL | SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #8 North Dakota † | 24 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 87 | 67 | 40 | 26 | 12 | 2 | 151 | 105 |
| #1 Denver * | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 45 | 110 | 80 | 42 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 198 | 119 |
| #18 St. Cloud State | 24 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 77 | 74 | 38 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 121 | 114 |
| #15 Colorado College | 24 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 66 | 56 | 37 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 111 | 93 |
| #12 Omaha | 24 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 40 | 68 | 74 | 40 | 23 | 13 | 4 | 117 | 112 |
| #14 Western Michigan | 24 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 35 | 78 | 64 | 38 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 136 | 97 |
| Minnesota Duluth | 24 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 65 | 80 | 37 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 103 | 125 |
| Miami | 24 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 44 | 100 | 36 | 7 | 26 | 3 | 78 | 135 |
| Championship: March 23, 2024 † indicates conference regular season champion (Penrose Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Frozen Faceoff Championship Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll Updated: April 1, 2024 |||||||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals.
| Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Semifinals March 22 | Semifinals March 22 | Semifinals March 22 | Championship March 23 | Championship March 23 | Championship March 23 |
| 1 | North Dakota | 5 | 7 | - | | | | | | |
| 8 | Miami | 1 | 1 | - | | | | | | |
| 8 | Miami | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | North Dakota | 3 | | | |
| | | | | | 5 | Omaha | 6 | | | |
| 2 | Denver | 4 | 5 | - | 5 | Omaha | 6 | | | |
| 7 | Minnesota Duluth | 0 | 2 | - | | | | | | |
| 7 | Minnesota Duluth | 0 | 2 | - | | | | 5 | Omaha | 1 |
| | | | | | | | | 2 | Denver | 4 |
| 3 | St. Cloud State | 5 | 1 | 5 | | | | | | | 2 | Denver | 4 |
| 6 | Western Michigan | 2 | 6 | 1 | | | | | | |
| 6 | Western Michigan | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | Denver | 5* | | | |
| | | | | | 3 | St. Cloud State | 4 | | | |
| 4 | Colorado College | 4* | 1 | 1 | 3 | St. Cloud State | 4 | | | |
| 5 | Omaha | 3 | 3 | 2 | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

## Results

Note: All game times are local.

### Championship
#### (2) Denver vs. (5) Omaha
## Tournament awards
### Frozen Faceoff All-Tournament Team

* G: Šimon Latkoczy (Omaha)
* D: Zeev Buium (Denver)
* D: Griffin Ludtke (Omaha)
* F: McKade Webster * (Denver)
* F: Zach Urdahl (Omaha)
* F: Miko Matikka (Denver)
* Most Valuable Player(s)