2002 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

The 2002 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2001–02 season, the 19th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Wisconsin-Superior defeating Norwich in the championship game 3-2 in overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played in Middlebury, Vermont.

2002 NCAA Men's Division III
Ice Hockey Tournament
Teams9
Finals site
ChampionsWisconsin–Superior Yellowjackets (1st title)
Runner-upNorwich Cadets (2nd title game)
Semifinalists
Winning coachDan Stauber (1st title)
MOP,
Attendance19,202

Qualifying teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament. Automatic bids were offered to the conference tournament champion of seven different conferences with one at-large bid for the best remaining team from each region.

East West
SchoolConferenceRecordBerth TypeAppearanceLast BidSchoolConferenceRecordBerth TypeAppearanceLast Bid
Bowdoin ECAC East 18–4–3 At-Large 2nd 1996 St. Norbert NCHA 23–4–2 At-Large 4th 1999
Middlebury NESCAC 24–1–1 Tournament Champion 8th 2001 St. Thomas MIAC 22–5–0 Tournament Champion 10th 2000
Norwich ECAC East 24–4–0 Tournament Champion 5th 2000 Wisconsin–Superior NCHA 20–5–4 Tournament Champion 10th 2001
Plattsburgh State SUNYAC 20–8–2 Tournament Champion 11th 2001
RIT ECAC West 23–2–0 Tournament Champion 12th 2001
Wentworth ECAC Northeast 18–7–2 Tournament Champion 2nd 2000

Format

The tournament featured four rounds of play. In the Quarterfinals, teams played a two-game series where the first team to reach 3 points was declared a winner (2 points for winning a game, 1 point each for tying). If both teams ended up with 2 points after the first two games a 20-minute mini-game was played to determine a winner. Mini-game scores are in italics. All other rounds were Single-game elimination. The teams were seeded according to geographic proximity for the eastern quarterfinals so the visiting team would have the shortest feasible distance to travel. for the western quarterfinal, the top-ranked team awaited the winner of a play-in game between the lower-ranked teams.

The third place game ceased to be held with this tournament.

Tournament Bracket
  First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals National Championship
                                         
  W1 St. Norbert 4* 2 -  
  W2 Wisconsin–Superior 4 4 -  
W2 Wisconsin–Superior 2  
W3 St. Thomas 1
  Wisconsin–Superior 5  
  Plattsburgh State 0  
RIT 4* 2* 0
Plattsburgh State 4 2 1  
  Wisconsin–Superior 3*
  Norwich 2
Middlebury 6 9 -  
Wentworth 0 0 -  
  Middlebury 2
  Norwich 5  
Norwich 3 7 -
Bowdoin 0 0 -  

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Note: Mini-games in italics

Record by conference
Conference # of Bids Record Win % Frozen Four Championship Game Champions
NCHA 2 4–1–2 .714 1 1 1
ECAC East 2 3–3–0 .500 1 1 -
NESCAC 1 2–1–0 .667 1 - -
ECAC West 1 0–0–2 .500 - - -
SUNYAC 1 0–1–2 .333 1 - -
ECAC Northeast 1 0–2–0 .000 - - -
MIAC 1 0–1–0 .000 - - -

References
    • "Division III Men's Ice Hockey Record Book" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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