2012 CIS University Cup
The 2012 CIS Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament was held March 22–25, 2012. This event marked the 50th anniversary of the inception of the University Cup tournament to decide the Men's University Hockey Champion. It is the second of two consecutive CIS Championships to be held at the University of New Brunswick's Aitken University Centre before moving to Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon for two years teams.
Similar to previous years, going back to the introduction of the expanded format in 1998, the teams are split into two Pools of three teams where each team plays the other two teams. The best team in each Pool advances to the final. All pool games must be decided by a win, there are no ties. If a pool has a three-way tie for 1st than GF/GA differential among the tied teams is the first tie-breaker.
Road to the Cup
AUS playoffs
OUA Playoffs
Canada West playoffs
University Cup
The six teams to advance to the tournament are listed below. The wild-card team was selected from the OUA Conference as the CW was provided the wild-card in 2011 and AUS teams are ineligible as they are the host conference.| Rank | Seed | Team | Qualification |
| 1 | 1 | UNB Varsity Reds | AUS Champion |
| 2 | 2 | McGill Redmen | OUA-East and Queen's Cup Champion |
| 3 | 3 | Saskatchewan Huskies | Canada West Finalist |
| 4 | 4 | Western Mustangs | OUA-West Champions and Queen's Cup Finalist |
| 5 | 5 | Moncton Aigles Bleu | Host Designate & AUS Finalist |
| 7 | 6 | UQTR Patriotes | Wild-Card - OUA Third Place |
Pool A - Evening
| Team | |||||||
| Western Mustangs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 |
| UNB Varsity Reds | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 2 |
| UQTR Patriotes | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 0 |
Pool B - Afternoon
| Team | |||||||
| McGill Redmen | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 2 |
| Moncton Aigles Bleu | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 2 |
| Saskatchewan Huskies | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 2 |
- McGill Redmen advance to the Gold Medal final based on the first tie-breaker of having the best GF/GA Differential of +2.
Championship Final
Tournament All-Stars
, from the McGill Redmen, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP despite receiving a 5-minute Major and Game Misconduct in the 3rd period of the Championship final, Verreault-Paul was McGill's MVP in their two pool games and was second in tournament goals and tied for 2nd in points.Joining Verreault-Paul on the tournament all-star team were:
Forward: Alexandre Picard-Hooper
Forward: Keaton Turkiewicz
Defenseman: Jonathan Harty
Defenseman: Marc-André Dorion
Goalie: Josh Unice