# 2025 NCHC Tournament

The 2025 NCHC Tournament is the 11th tournament in league history. It will be played between March 14 and 22, 2025. Quarterfinal games will played at home team campus sites, while the semifinal and championship matches will be held at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

## Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featurs a best-of-three games format. The top 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 uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings.

### Standings

2024–25 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 |
| #3 Western Michigan † | 24 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57 | 98 | 51 | 36 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 146 | 75 |
| #11 Arizona State | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 47 | 91 | 69 | 36 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 134 | 99 |
| #6 Denver | 24 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 89 | 59 | 39 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 157 | 83 |
| Omaha | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 82 | 69 | 36 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 105 | 99 |
| #17 North Dakota | 24 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 81 | 73 | 37 | 21 | 14 | 2 | 118 | 107 |
| Colorado College | 24 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 68 | 72 | 37 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 106 | 113 |
| Minnesota Duluth | 24 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 30 | 63 | 77 | 36 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 99 | 117 |
| St. Cloud State | 24 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 53 | 79 | 36 | 14 | 21 | 1 | 79 | 110 |
| Miami | 24 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 38 | 114 | 34 | 3 | 28 | 3 | 63 | 143 |
| Championship: March 22, 2025 † indicates conference regular season champion (Penrose Cup) * indicates conference tournament champion (Frozen Faceoff Championship Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll Updated: March 17, 2025 |||||||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals.
| Quarterfinals March 14–16 | Quarterfinals March 14–16 | Quarterfinals March 14–16 | Quarterfinals March 14–16 | Quarterfinals March 14–16 | Semifinals March 21 | Semifinals March 21 |
| 1 | Western Michigan | 6 | 6 | - | | |
| 8 | St. Cloud State | 2 | 2 | - | | |
| 8 | St. Cloud State | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | Western Michigan |
| | | | | | 5 | North Dakota |
| 2 | Arizona State | 4 | 6* | - | 5 | North Dakota |
| 7 | Minnesota Duluth | 3 | 5 | - | | |
| 3 | Denver | 1 | 6 | 9 | | |
| 6 | Colorado College | 3 | 3 | 2 | | |
| 6 | Colorado College | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Arizona State |
| | | | | | 3 | Denver |
| 4 | Omaha | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | Denver |
| 5 | North Dakota | 3 | 3 | - | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

## Results

Note: All game times are local.