On March 12, 2020, the WCHA announced the remainder of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
[1] 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.
[2] The final would have been a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.