# 1995 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

The 1995 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 36th conference playoff in league history and 43rd season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 10 and March 18, 1995. First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Five' matches were held at the Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Wisconsin was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

## Format

The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Civic Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two playing in a quarterfinal game. The semifinal pitted the top remaining seed against the winner of the quarterfinal game while the two other teams that received byes were matched against one another with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a Third Place contest. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

### Conference standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
1994–95 Western Collegiate Hockey Association standingsvte :
| | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Conference | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall |
| | GP | W | L | T | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA |
| Colorado College† | 32 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 45 | 155 | 108 | 43 | 30 | 12 | 1 | 213 | 143 |
| Wisconsin* | 32 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 38 | 128 | 112 | 43 | 24 | 15 | 4 | 172 | 152 |
| Denver | 32 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 38 | 131 | 115 | 42 | 25 | 15 | 2 | 181 | 147 |
| Minnesota | 32 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 37 | 121 | 95 | 44 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 169 | 133 |
| St. Cloud State | 32 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 31 | 126 | 113 | 38 | 17 | 20 | 1 | 146 | 139 |
| North Dakota | 32 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 31 | 120 | 141 | 39 | 18 | 18 | 3 | 151 | 169 |
| Minnesota-Duluth | 32 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 30 | 124 | 127 | 38 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 146 | 146 |
| Michigan Tech | 32 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 27 | 109 | 140 | 39 | 15 | 20 | 4 | 136 | 175 |
| Northern Michigan | 32 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 23 | 110 | 136 | 40 | 13 | 24 | 3 | 142 | 171 |
| Alaska-Anchorage | 32 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 20 | 106 | 142 | 36 | 11 | 25 | 0 | 122 | 169 |
| Championship: Wisconsin † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion |||||||||||||||

## Bracket

Teams are reseeded after the first round
| First Round March 10–12 | First Round March 10–12 | First Round March 10–12 | First Round March 10–12 | First Round March 10–12 | Quarterfinal March 16 | Quarterfinal March 16 | Quarterfinal March 16 | Semifinals March 17 | Semifinals March 17 | Semifinals March 17 | Championship March 18 | Championship March 18 | Championship March 18 |
| 1 | Colorado College | 11 | 5 | — | | | | | | | | | |
| 10 | Alaska-Anchorage | 3 | 2 | — | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | 1 | Colorado College | 5* | | | |
| 2 | Wisconsin | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | Minnesota | 3 | 4 | Minnesota | 4 | | | |
| 9 | Northern Michigan | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | North Dakota | 2 | | | | | | |
| 3 | Denver | 5* | 5 | — | | | | | | | 1 | Colorado College | 3 |
| 8 | Michigan Tech | 4 | 2 | — | | | | | | | 2 | Wisconsin | 4* |
| 4 | Minnesota | 5* | 4 | — | | | | | | | | | |
| 7 | Minnesota-Duluth | 4 | 3 | — | | | | 2 | | | | Wisconsin | 5 |
| | | | | | | | | 3 | Denver | 4 | | | |
| 5 | St. Cloud State | 2 | 2 | — | | | | | | | | | |
| 6 | North Dakota | 3 | 5 | — | | | | | | | | | |
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

### Quarterfinals
#### (1) Colorado College vs. (10) Alaska-Anchorage

* Colorado College won series 2–0

#### (2) Wisconsin vs. (9) Northern Michigan

* Wisconsin won series 2–1

#### (3) Denver vs. (8) Michigan Tech

* Denver won series 2–0

#### (4) Minnesota vs. (7) Minnesota-Duluth

* Minnesota won series 2–0

#### (5) St. Cloud State vs. (6) North Dakota

* North Dakota won series 2–0

### Championship
#### (1) Colorado College vs. (2) Wisconsin
## Tournament awards
### All-Tournament Team

* F Jason Elders (Denver)
* F Peter Geronazzo (Colorado College)
* F Ryan Kraft (Minnesota)
* D Eric Rud (Colorado College)
* D Mark Strobel (Wisconsin)
* G Kirk Daubenspeck* (Wisconsin)
* Most Valuable Player(s)