2020 U Sports University Cup
The 2020 U Sports Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament was held March 2020 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and played at the Scotiabank Centre. The Acadia Axemen, a member of U Sports Atlantic University Sport conference, are the designated host for this single year. Scotiabank Centre is an hour south of the school's campus. This event marks the third appearance of the tournament in Halifax, who hosted the 2015 and 2016 tournaments. This is the first time that Acadia will be the host of the tournament; St. Francis Xavier University and Saint Mary's University split hosting rights during the previous two-year stint.
The tournament format will remain unchanged: 8 teams, single elimination and Bronze medal games, with 3 conference champions, 3 conference runner-ups, OUA Bronze winner and host.
On February 13, 2020, U Sports and CBC Sports jointly announced the tournament would be streamed free of charge via the CBC Gem streaming service in Canada. U SPORTS' previous broadcasting deal with Sportsnet expired following the 2019 U Sports University Cup.
The tournament was suspended on Thursday night, after the first two games had been played, due to a decision by Hockey Canada to suspend all sanctioned hockey across the country. The impact of this decision was to leave the tournament with no on-ice officials and as result left the Tournament Committee with no choice but to suspend the remaining games. USPORTS Hockey, as an organization, is not directly under the Hockey Canada umbrella, but they do have a development partnership where Hockey Canada Level 4, 5 & 6 officials officiate USPORTS hockey along with the Team Canada Jr vs USPORTS All-Star games.
Road to the Cup
AUS playoffs
OUA playoffs
Note 1: The Queen's Cup championship game must be held in Ontario. When a Quebec-based OUA-East representative is the higher seed and should 'host' the game - the game shall be hosted by the OUA-West team instead, but the OUA-East team shall be the 'home' team and have last change.Note 2: The OUA 'Host' rule mentioned in Note 1 now, as of 2019-20, also applies to the Bronze Medal game.
Canada West playoffs
University Cup Tournament
The eight teams to advance to the tournament are listed below. The three conference champions must be seeded 1-3 based on the pre-tournament Top 10 Rankings followed by the OUA Runner-up. The remaining four seeds are for the AUS Finalist, Canada West Finalist, OUA Third-place and host or host designate if the host has qualified as one of the previously mentioned teams. Their seedings are based on the pre-tournament rankings.More details in the tournament preview:
| Rank | Seed | Team | Qualified |
| 1 | 1 | UNB Reds | AUS Champions |
| 2 | 2 | Saskatchewan Huskies | Canada West Champions |
| 3 | 3 | Guelph Gryphons | Queen's Cup & OUA-West Champion |
| 4 | 4 | Ottawa Gee-Gees | Queen's Finalists & OUA-East Champion |
| 5 | 5 | Acadia Axemen | AUS Finalists |
| 6 | 6 | Saint Mary's Huskies | AUS Bronze - Host Designate |
| 7 | 7 | Western Mustangs | OUA Bronze Medallists |
| 9 | 8 | British Columbia Thunderbirds | CW Finalists |
Tournament format
The tournament is a traditional 8 team, single elimination ladder with Bronze Medal game between the two semi-final losers. Games that are tied after regulation play a 10-minute overtime period following the 3rd period. If there is no score after the first overtime, the ice is cleaned and they would play 20 minute periods until there is a winner.The higher seed is the 'Home' team for each game.
The tournament was suspended late Thursday night, after the first two games had been completed.