2015 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey tournament

none August 2023 2015 men's Division III 11 Ridder Arena Minneapolis, Minnesota Trinity Bantams 1st 1st 2nd Wisconsin–Stevens Point Pointers 8th 8th Adrian Bulldogs 2nd Amherst Lord Jeffs 2nd Matthew Greason 1st Nathaniel Heibron Trinity 8,456 The 2015 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2014–15 season, the 32nd such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Trinity defeating Wisconsin–Stevens Point in the championship game 5-2. All First Round and Quarterfinal matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Qualifying teams The following teams qualified for the tournament. Automatic bids were offered to the conference tournament champion of seven different conferences. Four at-large bids were available for the highest-ranked non-automatic qualifiers (overall seed in parentheses). East West Seed School Conference Record Berth Type Appearance Last Bid Seed School Conference Record Berth Type Appearance Last Bid1 Amherst (2) NESCAC 21–4–2 Tournament Champion 4th 20121 Adrian (1) NCHA 23–3–3 Tournament Champion 5th 20142 Plattsburgh State (3) SUNYAC 20–5–2 Tournament Champion 18th 20122 Wisconsin–Stevens Point WIAC 21–6–1 At–Large 11th 20143 Norwich (4) ECAC East 24–3–1 Tournament Champion 16th 20143 Hamline MIAC 14–10–4 Tournament Champion 2nd 20114 Trinity NESCAC 21–3–1 At–Large 4th 20085 Hobart ECAC West 21–6–0 At–Large 5th 20096 Oswego State SUNYAC 18–4–4 At–Large 14th 20147 Nichols ECAC Northeast 21–3–3 Tournament Champion 3rd 20148 Plymouth State MASCAC 16–8–3 Tournament Champion 2nd 2012 Format The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were Single-game elimination. The top two teams from each region received byes into the quarterfinal round. These teams were arranged so they were all four to reach the semifinal round the second eastern seed would play the top western seed and vice versa. Because only three western teams received byes for the tournament, the third western seed was given the remaining bye into the quarterfinals and matched against the second western seed. the remaining six eastern teams were placed in the first round and seeded as follows: the second eastern seed would play the eighth eastern seed, the fourth eastern seed would play the seventh eastern seed and the fifth eastern seed would play the sixth eastern seed. The winner between the fifth- and six-seeded teams, would advance to play the top overall seed. Because the fourth overall seed was required to play in the first round as the third eastern seed, the winner of its first round match would advance to play the second overall seed rather than the third overall seed. This was done to divide top four seeds evenly between the two semifinal brackets. In the First Round and Quarterfinals the higher-seeded team served as host. Tournament Bracket First RoundMarch 14 QuarterfinalsMarch 21 SemifinalsMarch 27 National ChampionshipMarch 28 170 E3 Norwich (4) 3 E8 Plymouth State 2 E5 Hobart 1 E6 Oswego State 6 E4 Trinity 4 E7 Nichols 2 E1 Amherst (2) 4* E3 Norwich (4) 3 W2 Wisconsin–Stevens Point 4 W3 Hamline 2 W1 Adrian (1) 5 E6 Oswego State 4 E2 Plattsburgh State (3) 1 E4 Trinity 5 E1 Amherst (2) 2 W2 Wisconsin–Stevens Point 6 W1 Adrian (1) 3 E4 Trinity 5 W2 Wisconsin–Stevens Point 2 E4 Trinity 5 Note: * denotes overtime period(s) Results First round #eeeeee March 14, 2015 7:00 PM (E3) Norwich (E8) Plymouth State 3 – 2 (2–1, 0–0, 1–1) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mnrwply1.m14 Ty Reichenbach Gordon Ceasar 0–11–12–13–13–2 (Flaherty, Hale) William Pelletier (15) – 06:16 (Pelletier, Rowland) Austin Surowiec (11) – PP – 09:11 (Brandrup, Piacentini) William Pelletier (16) – 42:10 02:03 – Michael Economos (13) (Dupell) 50:50 – Ian McGilvrey (9) (Thoresen) Chris Shepley Chris Leavitt Mike Lizotte Anthony Kenny Kreitzberg Arena – Holderness, New Hampshire 1,702 10 36 34 17 #eeffff March 14, 2015 7:30 PM (E5) Hobart (E6) Oswego State 1 – 6 (0–1, 1–3, 0–2) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mhobosw1.m14 Matt Zawadzki Frank Oplinger 0–10–20–30–41–41–51–6 (Gamache) Brad Robbins (9) – 31:02 01:17 – Mike Montagna (13) (Herlihey, Rivait) 20:41 – Matt Galati (10) (Federow, Botten) 23:58 – PP – Kenny Neil (11) (Botten, Gertsakis) 25:35 – Bobby Gertsakis (4) (Herlihey) 44:03 – Matt Galati (11) (Botten) 58:41 – Shawn Hulshof (20) (Montagna, Herlihey) Joel Dupree Craig Florkowski John McJury Mike Foley Geneva Recreation Complex – Geneva, New York 660 4 4 34 40 #eeeeee March 14, 2015 7:00 PM (E4) Trinity (E7) Nichols 4 – 2 (1–0, 2–2, 1–0) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mnictrn1.m14 Nathaniel Heilbron Alex Larson 1–02–03–03–13–24–2 (Gamache) Anthony Sabitsky (10) – PP – 19:10 Benjamin Hjalmarsson (2) – 28:08 (Jackson, Gularte) Greg Rooney (2) – 33:34 (Sabitsky, Whitney) Ryan Cole (15) – EN – 59:17 37:21 – Sean Fleming (10) (Jackson, Gularte) 39:24 – Sean Fleming (11) (Lecey, Jackson) Matt Bielak William McGoldrick Mike St. Lawrence David St. Lawrence June Rockwell Levy Rink – Burrillville, Rhode Island 975 8 10 57 36 Quarterfinals #eeeeee March 21, 2015 7:00 PM (E1) Amherst (E3) Norwich 4 – 3 (OT) (1–1, 1–1, 1–1, 1–0) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mamhnrw1.m21 Danny Vitale Ty Reichenbach 0–11–11–22–22–33–34–3 (Flanagan, Rowbotham) David White (19) – PP – 09:05 (Arena) Andrew Fenwick (9) – 35:09 (Fenwick, White) Aaron Deutsch (7) – EA – 59:47 Mike Rowbotham (9) – 68:12 06:46 – Justin Charbonneau (6) (Pelletier) 12:04 – Corey Hale (4) (Pelletier, Rowland) 58:09 – William Pelletier (17) (Niezgoda) Mike Shea Marty Hughes Mike St. Lawrence David St. Lawrence Orr Rink – Amherst, Massachusetts 866 8 12 30 46 #eeffff March 21, 2015 7:00 PM (W2) Wisconsin–Stevens Point (W3) Hamline 4 – 2 (0–1, 1–3, 0–2) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mhmlwsp1.m21 Brandon Jaeger John Sellie-Hanson 1–02–02–13–13–24–2 (Gamache) Joe Kalisz (17) – 04:50 (Kalisz) Kevin Gibson (8) – 30:28 (Sharkey) Lawrence Cornellier (11) – 48:16 (Henegar) Lawrence Cornellier (12) – EN – 58:40 44:26 – Garrett Schmitz (2) (Rubbelke) 48:16 – Kerry McGlynn (1) (Kessler) Dave Marcotte Jerry McLaughlin Brandon Schroder Mark Engstrom K.B. Willett Ice Arena – Stevens Point, Wisconsin 1,123 4 21 39 27 #eeeeee March 21, 2015 7:00 PM (W1) Adrian (E6) Oswego State 5 – 4 (1–2, 2–0, 2–2) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/madrosw1.m21 Scott Shackell Matt Zawadzki 1–01–11–22–23–24–24–35–35–4 (Thompson) Kyle Brothers (24) – 07:31 Mathew Thompson (22) – SH – 38:23 (Flegel, Telfer) Ryan Lowe (7) – 39:41 (Hervey) Rob Heath (9) – 48:59 (Lowe) Daniel Lisi (4) – 54:52 10:28 – Kenny Neil (12) (Galati, Wills) 17:29 – PP – Matt Galati (12) (Gertsakis) 53:50 – Nick Rivait (3) (Waterstreet) 58:21 – EA – Mike Montagna (14) (Hulshof, Neil) Eric Smevoll Joe Carusone Michael Verdonck Jon Haas Arrington Ice Arena – Adrian, Michigan 1,041 8 10 32 35 #eeffff March 21, 2015 7:00 PM (E2) Plattsburgh State (E4) Trinity 1 – 5 (0–1, 0–0, 1–4) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mplttrn1.m21 Brady Rouleau Nathaniel Heilbron 0–10–20–30–40–51–5 (Constantine, Beadow) Connor Toomey (13) – 59:58 18:52 – PS – Jackson Brewer (8) 42:45 – Elie Vered (9) (McKillop, Coveney) 50:45 – Tim Shea (3) (Coveney, Flynn) 52:05 – Jackson Brewer (9) (Rooney, Johnson) 58:58 – EN – Elie Vered (10) (McKillop, Burns) Bob Collins Will O'Malley Doug Place Rick Urnek Koeppel Community Center – Hartford, Connecticut 2,231 2 6 41 30 Semifinals #eeeeee March 27, 2015 7:30 PM (E1) Amherst (W2) Wisconsin–Stevens Point 2 – 6 (0–0, 1–2, 1–4) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mamhwsp1.m27 Danny Vitale Brandon Jaeger 1–02–02–12–22–32–42–52–6 (Rowbotham, Lindstrom) Brendan Burke (6) – 23:42 (Flanagan, Brown) David White (20) – 08:15 08:38 – Nick D'Avolio (5) (Brooks, Gibson) 25:53 – Nick D'Avolio (6) (Kolb) 47:23 – PP – Alex Brooks (5) (Brodie, Sharkey) 51:14 – Lawrence Cornellier (13) (Sharkey, Ladd) 52:49 – Joe Kalisz (18) (Gibson) 58:15 – EN – Lawrence Cornellier (14) Travis Ahlberg Matt Bialek Jeremy Klobuchar Dan Odegard Ridder Arena – Minneapolis, Minnesota 1,284 6 4 24 41 #eeffff March 27, 2015 4:00 PM (W1) Adrian (E4) Trinity 3 – 5 (1–1, 1–4, 0–1) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/madrtrn1.m27 Scott Shackell Nathaniel Heilbron 1–01–11–21–31–42–42–53–5 Ryan Lowe (10) – 15:50 (Davies, Balas) Chris Leone (6) – PP – 32:24 (Ranalli) Mathew Thompson (23) – 41:36 18:11 – Michael Hawkrigg (15) (Orlando, Brewer) 24:45 – Elie Vered (11) (Flynn, Hawkrigg) 27:23 – SH – Ethan Holdaway (7) (Orlando) 29:45 – PP – Elie Vered (12) (Whitney, Burns) 34:55 – PP – Ryan Cole (16) (Orlando, Flynn) Eric Smevoll Mike Shea Robby Shintani Michael Verdonck Ridder Arena – Minneapolis, Minnesota 1,181 24 14 32 35 National Championship #eeeeee March 28, 2015 7:00 PM (W2) Wisconsin–Stevens Point (E4) Trinity 2 – 5 (1–1, 0–1, 1–3) http://www.collegehockeystats.net/1415/boxes/mtrnwsp1.m28 Brandon Jaeger Nathaniel Heilbron 0–11–11–22–22–32–42–5 (Sharkey, Brooks) Kyle Brodie (8) – PP – 15:16 (Sharkey, Brooks) Nick D'Avolio (7) – 49:10 03:38 – PP – Sean Orlando (15) (Hawkrigg, R. Cole) 21:52 – Michael Hawkrigg (16) (Burns, Holdaway) 56:08 – Ethan Holdaway (8) (Vered, B. Cole) 59:23 – EN – Ryan Cole (17) 59:46 – EN – Conor Coveney (5) Eric Smevoll Mike Shea Robby Shintani Michael Verdonck Ridder Arena – Minneapolis, Minnesota 1,303 10 8 37 24 All-Tournament Team G: Nathaniel Heibron* (Trinity) D: Alex Brooks (Wisconsin–Stevens Point) D: Michael Flynn (Trinity) F: Nick D'Avolio (Wisconsin–Stevens Point) F: Michael Hawkrigg (Trinity) F: Sean Orlando (Trinity) * Most Outstanding Player(s) Record by conference Conference# of BidsRecordWin %Frozen FourChampionship GameChampions NESCAC 2 5–1 5 1 2 1 1 SUNYAC 2 1–2 1 2 - - - WIAC 1 2–1 2 1 1 1 - NCHA 1 1–1 1 1 1 - - ECAC East 1 1–1 1 1 - - - ECAC West 1 0–1 0 1 - - - MIAC 1 0–1 0 1 - - - ECAC Northeast 1 0–1 0 1 - - - MASCAC 1 0–1 0 1 - - - References 50em 2 Division III Men's Ice Hockey Record Book NCAA http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_ice_hockey_champs_records/2018/D3.pdf 2019-03-04 External links Division III Men's Ice Hockey Record Book Category:NCAA Division III men's ice hockey tournament Category:March 2015 sports events in the United States Category:2010s in Minneapolis Category:Ice hockey competitions in Minneapolis Category:College ice hockey tournaments in Minnesota