2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
2015 Frozen Four logo
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| Teams | 16 |
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| Finals Site | |
| Champions | Providence (1st title) |
| Runner-Up | Boston University (11th title game) |
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| Winning coach | Nate Leaman (1st title) |
| MOP | Jon Gillies Providence |
| Attendance | 36,044 |
The 2015 NCAA Men's Division I 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 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:
The winner of each regional will advance to the Frozen Four:
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 (WCHA) 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.
Note: * denotes overtime period(s)
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.
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