The Midwest Regional of the 2012 NCAA hockey tournament will be at Resch Center in Green Bay, Wis., and the Michigan Wolverines, the No. 2 overall seed in the entire tournament, will lead that corner of the bracket. The four teams in the region are:

• No. 1 Michigan
• No. 2 Ferris State
• No. 3 Denver
• No. 4 Cornell

Both first-round games in the Midwest region will be played Friday, March 23. Ferris State will battle Denver at 5:30 p.m. ET, followed by Michigan vs. Cornell at 9 p.m. Both games can be seen on ESPN3.com. Michigan might be the higher-ranked team at present, but Ferris State reached the No. 1 spot in the country at points this season. The Bulldogs finished the year No. 6 in the Pairwise.

The winners of each game will battle in the Midwest Regional Final the following day, Saturday, March 24, at 9 p.m. ET.

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