The 2001 NCAA Women's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 4 schools playing in single-elimination

Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the event...

 play to determine the national champion of women's NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

 Division I college ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

. The tournament began on March 23, 2001, and ended with the championship game on March 25.

Qualifying teams

The at-large bids, along with the seeding for each team in the tournament, were announced on Sunday, March 18.

Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth Type
1	Dartmouth Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...	ECAC	26–3–1	Tournament Champion
2	Minnesota-Duluth University of Minnesota Duluth The University of Minnesota Duluth is a regional branch of the University of Minnesota system located in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. As Duluth's public research university, UMD offers 13 bachelor's degrees in 74 majors, graduate programs in 24 different fields, a two-year program at the School of...	WCHA Western Collegiate Hockey Association The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference....	26–5–4	Tournament Champion
3	Harvard Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...	ECAC	23–10–0	At-Large Bid
4	St Lawrence St. Lawrence University St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....	ECAC	23–7–3	At-Large Bid

Frozen Four – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

Harvard defeated Dartmouth 3-2 in the Consolation Game.

All-Tournament Team

• G: Tuula Puputti
  Tuula Puputti
  Tuula Puputti is a Finnish female ice hockey player. She played on the women's ice hockey team for Finland at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and won a bronze medal.- References :...
  
  , Minnesota-Duluth
• D: Isabelle Chartrand
  Isabelle Chartrand
  Isabelle Chartrand is a women's ice hockey player. Chartrand competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City before her 24th birthday. Chartrand was one of the youngest members of the team...
  
  , St Lawrence
• D: Brittny Ralph, Minnesota-Duluth
• F: Amanda Sargeant, St Lawrence
• F: Maria Rooth
  Maria Rooth
  Maria Rooth is a Swedish ice hockey player. She is the only University of Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey player to have her jersey retired above the ice of the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center...
  
  , Minnesota-Duluth*
• F: Tammy Lee Shewchuk
  Tammy Lee Shewchuk
  Tammy Lee "Barbie" Shewchuk is a women's ice hockey player. Shewchuk was a member of the 2000 and 2001 gold medal teams at the Women’s World Hockey Championships. She also competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and contributed with two points as Canada captured the Gold Medal...
  
  , Harvard

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

External links

• NCAA Women's Ice Hockey - NCAA.com