North Dakota received the Broadmoor Trophy as the tournament's champions and was awarded the Western Collegiate Hockey Association's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The first round of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format.
12 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated.
6 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top two teams automatically advancing to the semifinals.
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against Teams are reseeded after the first round Note: * denotes overtime periods