College ice hockey tournament
The 2024 WCHA Ice Hockey Tournament was the 25th edition of the WCHA Tournament . It was played between March 1 and March 9, 2024. It was hosted by the University of Minnesota at Ridder Arena . As the tournament winner, Wisconsin earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament .
The tournament includes all eight teams in the conference. Teams are ranked according to their finish in the conference standings. All quarterfinal games are best two of three and are played at the highest seed's home sites, and starting with the semifinals, single-elimination played at Ridder Arena . The tournament champion will receive an automatic bid into the 2024 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament .[ 1]
Standings
Conference
Overall
GP
W
L
T
OTW
OTL
SOW
PTS
GF
GA
GP
W
L
T
GF
GA
#1 Ohio State †
28
26
2
0
2
0
0
78 140
37
39
35
4
0
201
51
#2 Wisconsin *
28
23
5
0
2
1
0
69 124
43
41
35
6
0
205
62
#5 Minnesota
28
19
7
1
1
2
2
62 92
60
39
27
10
2
135
80
#7 Minnesota Duluth 28
15
11
2
0
0
0
47 64
47
39
21
14
4
89
66
#10 St. Cloud State
28
12
14
2
0
1
0
40 60
59
34
17
17
2
78
69
Minnesota State 28
6
22
0
1
2
0
19 52
94
38
13
25
0
97
120
St. Thomas 28
4
23
1
0
0
1
11 39
120
37
10
26
1
74
150
Bemidji State 28
3
24
1
0
0
0
10 33
144
36
4
30
2
42
181
Championship : March 9, 2024† indicates conference regular season champion; * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com ; updated March 24, 2023
Bracket
Quarterfinals Semifinals Championship 8
Bemidji State
1
0
—
1
Ohio State
10
8
—
1
Ohio State
6
4
Minnesota Duluth
0
5
St. Cloud State
0
0
—
4
Minnesota Duluth
5
2
—
1
Ohio State
3
2
Wisconsin
6
7
St. Thomas
2
1
—
2
Wisconsin
4
9
—
2
Wisconsin
4
3
Minnesota
3
6
Minnesota State
5
1
0
3
Minnesota
4
7
3
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
Results
Quarterfinals
Game reference Eva Filippova Goalies Raygan Kirk Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 3:39 – Barnes (Markowski, Bilka ) 0–2 5:44 – Dunne (Mobley, Matthews) 0–3 5:48 – Baxter Dronen – 24:27 1–3 1–4 25:33 – Hartmetz 1–5 28:38 – Buglioni (Peschel) 1–6 35:08 – Bilka (Hartmetz, Barnes) 1–7 35:40 – Amos (Markowski, Webster) 1–8 40:51 – Gardiner 1–9 44:23 – Buglioni (Zanon , Gardiner) 1–10 51:35 – Barnes (Markowski, Matthews)
2 min Penalties 4 min 13 Shots 62
Game reference Abbie Thompson Goalies Raygan Kirk Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 1:13 – Gardiner (Zanon ) 0–2 3:49 – Bernard (Zanon, Buglioni) 0–3 11:23 – pp – Buglioni (Barnes , Zanon) 0–4 32:15 – Matthews (Dunne, Webster) 0–5 33:10 – Dunne (Mobley, Bernard) 0–6 34:46 – pp – Baxter (Dunne, Gardiner) 0–7 46:09 – Bilka (Webster) 0–8 57:16 – Gardiner (Hartmetz)
8 min Penalties 2 min 9 Shots 62
Game reference Calla Frank Goalies Jane Gervais Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 0:49 – Simms (O'Brien , Harvey ) 0–2 11:43 – Eden (Potter, Curl ) Stenslie – 33:15 1–2 1–3 50:05 – Simms (Wilgren, Curl) Stenslie (Parent) – 53:00 2–3 2–4 53:45 – Curl (Simms, O'Brien)
0 min Penalties 4 min 13 Shots 31
Game reference Olivia King Goalies Ava McNaughton Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 10:41 – Curl (Simms , O'Brien ) 0–2 21:35 – Eden (L. Edwards , C. Edwards) 0–3 25:34 – O'Brien (Simms) 0–4 26:58 – Wilgren (C. Edwards, Eden) 0–5 28:49 – Jungels (Curl, O'Brien) 0–6 40:06 – Curl Jurgensen (Zavoral, Cooper) – 44:40 1–6 1–7 48:25 – L. Edwards (Harvey, Gorbatenko) 1–8 55:43 – Kotlowski (Wheeler, Picard) 1–9 56:41 – O'Brien (Curl, Simms)
0 min Penalties 0 min 14 Shots 60
Game reference Hailey Hansen Goalies Skylar Vetter Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 4:57 – O'Hara (M. Wethington , A. Wethington) 0–2 11:00 – Huber (Wethington, Bouveng ) Bobyck (Paddington, Vekich) – 31:17 1–2 Nelson (Van Batavia, Vekich) – 38:13 2–2 Mashuga – 42:20 3–2 3–3 45:31 – Huber (Bouveng, Murphy ) Nelson (Mashuga) – 49:04 4–3 4–4 53:21 – Huber (Murphy) Van Batavia (Akervik, Nelson) – 58:22 5–4
2 min Penalties 4 min 28 Shots 29
Game reference Hailey Hansen Goalies Lucy Morgan Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 4:24 – Bouveng (Huber) 0–2 9:12 – Huber (Murphy , Stewart) 0–3 11:02 – Bouveng (Murphy) Langseth (Tuttle, Otremba) – pp – 14:14 1–3 1–4 15:40 – M. Wethington (Huber, Bouveng) 1–5 17:24 – pp – Murphy (Bouveng, Hemp ) 1–6 20:18 – Murphy (Bouveng, M. Wethington) 1–7 36:03 – Kaiser (M. Wethington, Stewart)
14 min Penalties 9 min 18 Shots 39
Game reference Suzette Faucher Goalies Lucy Morgan Referees: Linesmen: 4 min Penalties 0 min 11 Shots 36
Game reference Sanni Ahola Goalies Hailey MacLeod Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 22:38 – Hunt (Baskin, Wallin) 0–2 29:53 – pp – O'Brien (McMahon, Hunt) 0–3 44:30 – pp – Van Wieren (Hunt, McMahon) 0–4 54:04 – Wallin (Hunt, Henderson) 0–5 57:28 – Karlsson (Hunt, Van Wieren)
6 min Penalties 6 min 20 Shots 39
Game reference Jojo Chobak Goalies Ève Gascon Referees: Linesmen: 0–1 36:15 – McMahon (Sadura, Bergström) 0–2 40:25 – McMahon (Sadura)
2 min Penalties 6 min 27 Shots 23
Tournament Awards
All-Tournament Team
* Most Outstanding Player
References
Teams Venues Championships & awards Seasons
