1987 WCHA men's ice hockey tournament

First round and semifinal games were played at home team campus sites while the championship match was held, for the final time, at the Winter Sports Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated.

As a result of their being the regular season champion, North Dakota's home venue, Winter Sports Center, served as the site for the Championship game regardless of which teams qualified for the penultimate match.

Each series were two-game matchups with the team that scored the most goals advancing to the succeeding round.

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against [3] [4] Teams are reseeded after the first round Note: * denotes overtime period(s)