2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2002 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 41st tournament in league history. It was played between March 8 and March 16, 2002. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final five games were played at the Olympic Arena (subsequently renamed Herb Brooks Arena) in Lake Placid, New York. By winning the tournament, Harvard received the ECAC's automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
==Format==
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two teams that finish below tenth place in the standings are not eligible for tournament play. In the first round, the first and tenth seeds, the second and ninth seeds, the third seed and eighth seeds, the fourth seed and seventh seeds and the fifth seed and sixth seeds played a best-of-three series with the three highest-seeded winners advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two winners playing in the Four vs. Five matchup. After the opening round every series becomes a single-elimination game. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the winner of the four vs. five game while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament.
==Conference standings==
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
==Bracket==
Teams are reseeded after the first round of the Tournament.
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
===First round===
====(1) Cornell vs. (10) Yale====
====(2) Clarkson vs. (9) St. Lawrence====
====(3) Harvard vs. (8) Brown====
====(4) Dartmouth vs. (7) Colgate====
====(5) Rensselaer vs. (6) Princeton====
===Four vs. Five===
====(4) Dartmouth vs. (5) Rensselaer====
===Semifinals===
====(1) Cornell vs. (5) Rensselaer====
====(2) Clarkson vs. (3) Harvard====
===Third place===
====(2) Clarkson vs. (5) Rensselaer====
===Championship===
====(1) Cornell vs. (3) Harvard====
==Tournament awards==
===All-Tournament Team===
*F Tim Pettit (Harvard)
*F Matt Murley (Rensselaer)
*F Sam Paolini (Cornell)
*D Kerry Ellis-Toddington (Clarkson)
*D Douglas Murray (Cornell)
*G Matt Underhill (Cornell)
* Most Outstanding Player(s)
==References==
==External links==
*ECAC Hockey 
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