# 2013 CCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 2013 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 42nd Central Collegiate Hockey Association men's ice hockey tournament, and also the last for the original version of the conference. The tournament was played between March 8 and March 24, 2012, at campus locations and at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. The tournament was won by the Notre Dame Fighting Irish—winning the Mason Cup and earning the CCHA's automatic bid into the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The CCHA was revived in the 2021–22 season with eight members, and the tournament resumed at the end of that season.

## Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. In the first round the sixth and eleventh, seventh and tenth, and eighth and ninth seeds as determined by the final regular season standings played a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the quarterfinals. There, the first seed and lowest-ranked first-round winner, the second seed and second-lowest-ranked first-round winner, the third seed and second-highest-ranked first-round winner, and the fourth seed and the fifth seed played a best-of-three series, with the winners advancing to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the highest and lowest seeds and second-highest and second-lowest seeds played a single game, with the winner advancing to the championship game.

### Regular season standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
2012–13 Central Collegiate Hockey Association 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 | SW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| #5 Miami † | 28 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 59 | 75 | 50 | 42 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 106 | 73 |
| #8 Notre Dame * | 28 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 56 | 90 | 64 | 41 | 25 | 13 | 3 | 119 | 91 |
| #16 Western Michigan | 28 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 54 | 63 | 55 | 38 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 87 | 78 |
| Ohio State | 28 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 45 | 71 | 63 | 40 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 95 | 96 |
| Ferris State | 28 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 43 | 67 | 63 | 37 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 96 | 89 |
| Alaska | 28 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 40 | 73 | 79 | 37 | 17 | 16 | 4 | 95 | 97 |
| #20 Michigan | 28 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 81 | 96 | 40 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 129 | 130 |
| Lake Superior State | 28 | 11 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 65 | 77 | 39 | 17 | 21 | 1 | 92 | 109 |
| Bowling Green | 28 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 65 | 75 | 41 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 100 | 105 |
| Northern Michigan | 28 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 64 | 79 | 38 | 15 | 19 | 4 | 90 | 109 |
| Michigan State | 28 | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 57 | 70 | 42 | 14 | 25 | 3 | 87 | 115 |
| Championship: March 24, 2013 † indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll ||||||||||||||||

## Bracket

| First round March 8–10 | First round March 8–10 | First round March 8–10 | First round March 8–10 | First round March 8–10 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Quarterfinals March 15–17 | Semifinals March 23 | Semifinals March 23 | Semifinals March 23 | Championship March 24 | Championship March 24 | Championship March 24 |
| | | | | | 1 | Miami | 0 | 4 | 4 | | | | | | |
| 6 | Alaska | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | Michigan State | 3 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| 11 | Michigan State | 2* | 1 | 4 | | | | | | 1 | Miami | 2 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 7 | Michigan | 6 | | | |
| | | | | | 4 | Ohio State | 2 | 3 | 3 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 5 | Ferris State | 4 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | Michigan | 1 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | Notre Dame | 3 |
| | | | | | 3 | Western Michigan | 3 | 1 | — | | | | | | |
| 7 | Michigan | 3 | 6 | — | 7 | Michigan | 4 | 5 | — | | | | | | |
| 10 | Northern Michigan | 2 | 2 | — | | | | | | 2 | Notre Dame | 3 | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | 4 | Ohio State | 1 | | | |
| | | | | | 2 | Notre Dame | 1* | 4 | — | | | | | | |
| 8 | Lake Superior State | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | Bowling Green | 0 | 3 | — | | | | | | |
| 9 | Bowling Green | 0 | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | |

## Tournament awards
### All-Tournament Team

* F T. J. Tynan* (Notre Dame)
* F Andrew Copp (Michigan)
* F Austin Wuthrich (Notre Dame)
* D Jacob Trouba (Michigan)
* D Stephen Johns (Notre Dame)
* G Steven Racine (Michigan)
* Most Valuable Player(s)