ALBANY, N.Y. -- ECAC Hockey today announced the pairings for the 2014 ECAC Men's Hockey Championship featuring a 12-team tournament field held over three consecutive weekends.



The tournament field, in order of seeds, feature Union, Colgate, Quinnipiac, Cornell, Clarkson, Yale, Rensselaer, St. Lawrence, Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton.



Tournament competition features four first-round series conducted at on-campus sites Friday-Sunday, March 7-9; four quarterfinals series at on-campus sites Friday-Sunday, March 14-16; and the championship semifinals and championship game March 21-22 at the 1980 Rink-Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York.



The first-round and quarterfinals series are best-of-three games. The top four seeds (Union, Colgate, Quinnipiac and Cornell will receive first-round byes.



Listed below is a summary of the upcoming tournament schedule:

(Game times for first-round will be 7 p.m. starts - note Princeton at Clarkson - Sat., March 8 will begin at 7:30 p.m.)



FIRST-ROUND (Friday, March 7 - Sunday, March 9 - Best-of-three)

No. 12 Princeton at No. 5 Clarkson

No. 11 Harvard at No. 6 Yale

No. 10 Dartmouth at No. 7 Rensselaer

No. 9 Brown at No. 8 St. Lawrence



QUARTERFINALS (Friday, March 14 - Sunday, March 16 - Best-of-three)

TBD at No. 1 Union

TBD at No. 2 Colgate

TBD at No. 3 Quinnipiac

TBD at No. 4 Cornell



FRIDAY, MARCH 21 (SEMIFINALS)

Semifinal No. 1 - 4 p.m.; Semifinal No. 2 - 7:30 p.m.



SATURDAY, MARCH 22 (CHAMPIONSHIP GAME)

Championship Game - 7:30 p.m.



