2003 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey tournament
| Teams | 9 |
|---|---|
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Norwich Cadets (2nd title) |
| Runner-up | Oswego State Lakers (2nd title game) |
| Semifinalists |
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| Winning coach | Mike McShane (2nd title) |
| Attendance | 12,609 |
The 2003 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2002–03 season, the 20th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Norwich defeating Oswego State in the championship game 2–1. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played in Northfield, Vermont, where Norwich University coincidentally hosted the Frozen Four the year they won.
Qualifying teams
[edit]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 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth Type | Appearance | Last Bid | Seed | School | Conference | Record | Berth Type | Appearance | Last Bid |
| 1 | Middlebury (2) | NESCAC | 21–4–2 | At–Large | 9th | 2002 | 1 | St. Norbert (1) | NCHA | 26–1–2 | Tournament Champion | 5th | 2002 |
| 2 | Oswego State (3) | SUNYAC | 23–6–1 | Tournament Champion | 7th | 1998 | 2 | Wisconsin–River Falls | NCHA | 22–6–1 | At–Large | 9th | 2001 |
| 3 | Norwich (4) | ECAC East | 24–3–0 | Tournament Champion | 6th | 2002 | 3 | Saint John's | MIAC | 20–6–1 | Tournament Champion | 4th | 2001 |
| 4 | Trinity | NESCAC | 19–5–2 | Tournament Champion | 1st | Never | |||||||
| 5 | Wentworth | ECAC Northeast | 21–4–3 | Tournament Champion | 3rd | 2002 | |||||||
| 6 | Elmira | ECAC West | 18–7–2 | Tournament Champion | 9th | 1997 | |||||||
Format
[edit]The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. For the three eastern Quarterfinals, the teams were seeded according to their rankings with the top three teams serving as hosts. For the western quarterfinal, the top-ranked team awaited the winner of a play-in game between the lower-ranked teams. The quarterfinal brackets were arranged so that were all higher-seeded teams to advance, the first overall seed would play the fourth overall seed in the semifinals.
Tournament bracket
[edit]| First Round March 12 | Quarterfinals March 15 | Semifinals March 21 | National Championship March 22 | ||||||||||||||||
| W1 | St. Norbert (1) | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| W2 | Wisconsin–River Falls | 2 | W2 | Wisconsin–River Falls | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| W3 | Saint John's | 0 | W1 | St. Norbert (1) | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| E3 | Norwich (4) | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| E3 | Norwich (4) | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| E4 | Trinity | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| E3 | Norwich (4) | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| E2 | Oswego State (3) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| E1 | Middlebury (2) | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| E6 | Elmira | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| E1 | Middlebury (2) | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| E2 | Oswego State (3) | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| E2 | Oswego State (3) | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| E5 | Wentworth | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
First round
[edit](W2) Wisconsin–River Falls vs. (W3) Saint John’s
[edit]| March 12 | Wisconsin–River Falls | 2 – 0 | Saint John's | Hunt Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| 14:15 – Nate Hansen (5) 19:36 – en – Marc-André Lalande (5) |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Jacque Vezina (31 saves / 31 shots) | Goalie stats | Rick Gregory (20 saves / 22 shots) | ||||||
Quarterfinals
[edit](W1) St. Norbert vs. (W2) Wisconsin–River Falls
[edit]| March 15 | St. Norbert | 5 – 2 | Wisconsin–River Falls | Cornerstone Community Center | ||||
| 10:03 – Michael Buchan (17) | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| 05:43 – Connor Hughes (12) 08:37 – Kelly Wosnack (10) 12:05 – Terry Wilson (5) |
Second period | Aaron Degerness (11) – pp – 00:20 | ||||||
| 19:43 – en – Brant Kersey (6) | Third period | Mike Salmela (4) – pp – 08:34 | ||||||
| Chancy Colquhoun (16 saves / 18 shots) | Goalie stats | Jacque Vezina (22 saves / 26 shots) | ||||||
(E3) Norwich vs. (E4) Trinity
[edit]| March 15 | Norwich | 5 – 4 | Trinity | Kreitzberg Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | Ryan Stevens (20) – 08:08 Joe Ori (17) – 14:39 | ||||||
| 08:37 – Jon Bokelmann (9) | Second period | Cameron Finch (13) – 09:08 Steven LaBrie (13) – 17:10 | ||||||
| 03:01 – pp – Phil Aucoin (15) 06:49 – Matt Schmidt (22) 07:01 – Paul Mattucci (14) 13:54 – Dominick Dawes (5) |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Mike Boudreau (17 saves / 21 shots) Randy Hevey (8 saves / 8 shots) |
Goalie stats | Douglas Kisielius (29 saves / 34 shots) | ||||||
(E1) Middlebury vs. (E6) Elmira
[edit]| March 15 | Middlebury | 5 – 1 | Elmira | Kenyon Arena | ||||
| 07:58 – Patrick Nugent (7) | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| 17:58 – pp – Kevin Cooper (25) | Second period | Pierre Rivard (14) – 08:25 | ||||||
| 00:37 – Patrick Nugent (8) 12:29 – Robert Chisholm (12) 15:51 – pp – Kevin Cooper (26) |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Yen-I Chen (27 saves / 28 shots) | Goalie stats | Greg Fargo (37 saves / 42 shots) | ||||||
(E2) Oswego State vs. (E5) Wentworth
[edit]| March 15 | Oswego State | 4 – 3 | Wentworth | Golden Romney Fieldhouse | ||||
| 00:51 – Mike Lukajic (31) 10:14 – Brady Crooks (3) |
First period | Mike Prsa (8) – 02:01 Dave Zelasko (17) – pp – 13:12 | ||||||
| 14:25 – pp – John Hirliman (19) | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| 19:08 – Rob Smith (17) | Third period | Jayden Der (9) – 12:26 | ||||||
| Tyson Gajda (31 saves / 34 shots) | Goalie stats | Jamie Vanek (34 saves / 38 shots) | ||||||
Semifinals
[edit](W1) St. Norbert vs. (E3) Norwich
[edit]| March 21 | Norwich | 6 – 3 | St. Norbert | Kreitzberg Arena | ||||
| Lou DiMasi III (7) – pp – 08:24 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Kurtis McLean (25) – sh – 03:46 | Second period | 01:35 – Mike Costley (9) 19:01 – Lenny Rampone (6) | ||||||
| Phil Aucoin (16) – 00:31 Ed Boudreau (16) – 00:58 Aaron Lee (12) – 16:42 Marshall Lee (4) – en – 19:32 |
Third period | 11:01 – pp – Māris Ziediņš (18) | ||||||
| Mike Boudreau (24 saves / 27 shots) | Goalie stats | Chancy Colquhoun (27 saves / 32 shots) | ||||||
(E1) Middlebury vs. (E2) Oswego State
[edit]| March 21 | Middlebury | 0 – 6 | Oswego State | Kreitzberg Arena | ||||
| No scoring | First period | Mike Lukajic (32) – 16:06 | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | Gary Bowman (15) – 02:50 Mike Lukajic (33) – 09:43 Tim Thomas (3) – 10:35 Gary Bowman (16) – en – 14:12 Paul Perrier (2) – 14:49 | ||||||
| Yen-I Chen (30 saves / 34 shots) Marc Scheuer (3 saves / 4 shots) |
Goalie stats | Tyson Gajda (33 saves / 33 shots) | ||||||
Record by conference
[edit]| Conference | # of Bids | Record | Win % | Frozen Four | Championship Game | Champions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCHA | 2 | 2–2 | .500 | 1 | - | - |
| NESCAC | 2 | 1–2 | .333 | 1 | - | - |
| ECAC East | 1 | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| SUNYAC | 1 | 2–1 | .667 | 1 | 1 | - |
| ECAC West | 1 | 0–1 | .000 | - | - | - |
| ECAC Northeast | 1 | 0–1 | .000 | - | - | - |
| MIAC | 1 | 0–1 | .000 | - | - | - |
References
[edit]- "Division III Men's Ice Hockey Record Book" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved March 4, 2019.