First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Four' matches were held at the Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format.
8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated.
4 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top remaining seed matched against lowest remaining seed in one semifinal game while the two other semifinalists meeting with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers competing in a Third Place contest.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against [4] Teams are reseeded after the first round Note: * denotes overtime period(s)