Quarterfinal games were played on home campus sites while semifinal- and championship-round games were held at the Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center, the home venue for Minnesota State.
After the 2020–21 season, the men's WCHA disbanded after seven of its members left to reestablish the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.
[1] The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format, while the semifinals and final were single games held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.
8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated.
[2] Note: * denotes overtime periods Ashton Calder (Lake Superior State) [3]