By winning the tournament, Minnesota State was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
The first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format.
The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament.
8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated.
[1] The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.