2015 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament
The 2015 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament was the national championship tournament for men's college ice hockey in the United States in 2015. The tournament involved 16 teams in single-elimination play to determine the national champion at the Division I level of the NCAA, the highest level of competition in college hockey. The tournament's Frozen Four - the semifinals and final - were hosted by Hockey East at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Providence defeated Boston University 4–3 to win the program's first NCAA title.
The championship game is remembered for a gaffe goal that allowed Providence to tie the score with less than 10 minutes to play.
Tournament procedure
The tournament will consist of four groups of four teams in regional brackets. The four regionals are officially named after their geographic areas. The following are the sites for the 2015 regionals:;March 27 and 28
;March 28 and 29
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:
;April 9–11
Qualifying teams
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced on March 22. The NCHC had six teams receive a berth in the tournament, ECAC Hockey and Hockey East each had three teams receive a berth, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association had two teams receive a berth, and one team from both the Big Ten Conference and Atlantic Hockey received a berth.Number in parentheses denotes overall seed in the tournament.
Tournament bracket
Note: * denotes overtime periodMedia
Television
ESPN has US television rights to all games during the tournament for the eleventh consecutive year. ESPN will air every game, beginning with the regionals, on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, or ESPN3 and will stream them online via WatchESPN.The Sports Network holds Canadian TV rights to all games. The games are across the network on all five feeds—TSN1, TSN2, TSN3, TSN4, and TSN5. Although they are broadcast under the TSN banner, it is actually a
simulcast of the ESPN feed with the ESPN announcers.
Broadcast Assignments
Regionals- West Regional: Clay Matvick & Sean Ritchlin – Fargo, North Dakota
- Northeast Regional: Dan Parkhurst & Billy Jaffe – Manchester, New Hampshire
- East Regional: John Buccigross, Barry Melrose & Quint Kessenich – Providence, Rhode Island
- Midwest Regional: Ben Holden & Blake Geoffrion – South Bend, Indiana
- John Buccigross, Barry Melrose, & Quint Kessenich – Boston, Massachusetts
Radio
Westwood One has exclusive radio rights to the Frozen Four and will air both the semifinals and the championship.- Sean Grande, Cap Raeder, & Adam Wodon
[List of [NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey All-Tournament Teams|All-Tournament team]]
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- G: Jon Gillies*
- D: Anthony Florentino
- D: Matt Grzelcyk
- F: Ahti Oskanen
- F: Mark Jankowski
- F: Jack Eichel