WCHA Final Five

This is one of the most competitive and highly-ranked fields in the 23-year history of the WCHA Final Five Playoff Championship. One consisting of the nation's No. 1 team in Denver, the nation's No. 3 team in Wisconsin, No. 6 St. Cloud State, No. 5 North Dakota and No. 11-ranked Minnesota Duluth who all head to Saint Paul this week for the 2010 Red Baron WCHA Final Five, to be held Thursday-Saturday.

All five of these teams have at least 22 victories overall this season and those five clubs also finished first, second, third, fourth and fifth respectively in the WCHA during the regular season.

WCHA regular season and MacNaughton Cup champion, Denver (27-7-4), is the No. 1 seed for the league playoff championship, second place regular season finisher Wisconsin (24-9-4) is the No. 2 seed, St. Cloud State (22-12-5) is the No. 3 seed, North Dakota (22-12-5) is the No. 4 seed and defending WCHA Final Five and Broadmoor Trophy champion, Minnesota Duluth (22-16-1), is the No. 5 seed.

Although the tournament will be without the home town Gophers this year, it should still make for a very interesting finish with such a talented field and also more of a variety of colors in the stands. The UMD Bulldogs will take on the Fighting Souix this Thursday night for the play in game at 7:07pm Ct. time.

Both teams will try to match what the Bulldogs did last year when Minn. Duluth became the first play-in team to ever win the tournament.

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