# 2025 CCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 2025 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament is the 46th tournament in the history of the men's Central Collegiate Hockey Association. It began on March 7 and ended on March 21, 2024. All games were played at home campus sites.

## Format

The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format, while the semifinals and final are single games held at the campus sites of the highest remaining seeds. The top eight conference teams in the standings participated in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher-seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower-seeded teams. The teams that advance out of the quarterfinals are reseeded according to the regular season standings. The semifinals and final are single-elimination games. The winners of the semifinals play one another to determine the conference tournament champion.

## Conference standings

2024–25 Central Collegiate Hockey Association standingsvte :
| | Conference record | 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 | PCT ^ | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #15 Minnesota State † | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 56 | .718 | 77 | 37 | 34 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 97 | 51 |
| Augustana | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 30 | .625 | 48 | 37 | 32 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 89 | 67 |
| St. Thomas | 26 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 32 | .564 | 76 | 66 | 34 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 95 | 92 |
| Bowling Green | 26 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 43 | .551 | 69 | 63 | 33 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 83 | 81 |
| Michigan Tech | 26 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 40 | .513 | 75 | 69 | 34 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 94 | 90 |
| Ferris State | 26 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | .462 | 74 | 81 | 34 | 13 | 18 | 3 | 85 | 117 |
| Bemidji State | 26 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 36 | .462 | 63 | 78 | 34 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 85 | 102 |
| Lake Superior State | 26 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 35 | .449 | 71 | 76 | 34 | 12 | 20 | 2 | 90 | 108 |
| Northern Michigan | 26 | 4 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | .205 | 42 | 88 | 34 | 5 | 27 | 2 | 55 | 115 |
| Championship: March 21, 2025 † indicates conference regular-season champion (MacNaughton Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Mason Cup) ^ Because Augustana is playing a transition schedule of 16 games against conference opponents, point percentage is used to determine conference position. Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll Updated: March 2, 2025 |||||||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals
| Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Quarterfinals March 7–9 | Semifinals March 15 | Semifinals March 15 | Semifinals March 15 | Championship March 21 | Championship March 21 |
| 1 | Minnesota State | 4 | 3 | – | | | | | |
| 8 | Lake Superior State | 1 | 2 | – | | | | | |
| 8 | Lake Superior State | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | Minnesota State | 4 | | |
| | | | | | 7 | Bemidji State | 0 | | |
| 2 | Augustana | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | Bemidji State | 0 | | |
| 7 | Bemidji State | 1 | 4 | 3* | | | | | |
| 7 | Bemidji State | 1 | 4 | 3* | | | | 1 | Minnesota State |
| | | | | | | | | 3 | St. Thomas |
| 3 | St. Thomas | 7 | 4 | – | | | | | | 3 | St. Thomas |
| 6 | Ferris State | 3 | 1 | – | | | | | |
| 6 | Ferris State | 3 | 1 | – | 3 | St. Thomas | 3 | | |
| | | | | | 4 | Bowling Green | 1 | | |
| 4 | Bowling Green | 2** | 4 | – | 4 | Bowling Green | 1 | | |
| 5 | Michigan Tech | 1 | 0 | – | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

## Results

Note: All game times are local.