2003 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2003 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 14 and March 22, 2003, at five conference arenas and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
==Format==
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All ten conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 10 according to conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with 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 Xcel Energy 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.
===Conference Standings===
Note: PTS = Points; GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
====Tiebreakers====
*Minnesota over Minnesota State: The Golden Gophers and the Mavericks each had a win, a loss, and two ties in head-to-head competition. Because they also had the same number of conference wins, Minnesota won the tiebreaker with the least number of goals scored against them in the regular season series with Minnesota State.
==Bracket==
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
==Awards==
===All-Tournament Team===
*G: Justin Johnson, Minnesota
*D: Keith Ballard, Minnesota
*D: Tom Preissing, Colorado College
*F: Shane Joseph, Minnesota State
*F: Junior Lessard, Minnesota-Duluth
*F: Grant Potulny, Minnesota
===Most Valuable Player===
*F: Grant Potulny, Minnesota
==See also==
*Western Collegiate Hockey Association men's champions
==References==
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==External links==
*WCHA official site
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Category:Western Collegiate Hockey Association
Category:2003 in hockey
Category:NCAA Tournaments