The 2002 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 22, 2002, and ended with the championship game on March 24.

Qualifying teams

The at-large bids, along with the seeding for each team in the tournament, were announced on Sunday, March 17.

Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth Type
1	Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...	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....	28–3–5	Tournament Champion
2	Niagara Niagara University Niagara University is a Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition, located in the Town of Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. Originally founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1856 as Our Lady of Angels Seminary, it became Niagara University in 1883. The University is still run by...	ECAC	26–7–1	At Large Bid
3	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....	22–6–4	At-Large Bid
4	Brown Brown University Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...	ECAC	24–7–2	Tournament Champion

Frozen Four – Durham, New Hampshire

Durham, New Hampshire

As of the census of 2000, there were 12,664 people, 2,882 households, and 1,582 families residing in the town. The population density was 565.5 people per square mile . There were 2,923 housing units at an average density of 130.5 per square mile...

Niagara tied Minnesota 2-2 in the Consolation Game.

All-Tournament Team

• G: Tania Pinelli, Niagara
• D: Larissa Luther, Minnesota-Duluth
• D: Meredith Ostrander, Brown
• F: Kelly Stephens
  Kelly Stephens
  Kelly Stephens-Tysland is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She participated in women's ice hockey at the University of Minnesota before moving back to her home city of Seattle and starting Experience Momentum, a fitness training company.-External...
  
  , Minnesota
• F: Joanne Eustace, Minnesota-Duluth
• F: Kristy Zamora, Brown*

* Most Outstanding Player(s)

External links

• NCAA Women's Ice Hockey - NCAA.com