Four teams qualified for the tournament , two each from the eastern and western regions . The ECAC tournament champion and the WCHA tournament champion received automatic bids into the tournament . Harvard , the ECAC champion , declined the bid to the tournament and was instead replaced by the runner-up Boston College . Two at-large bids were offered to one eastern and one western team based upon both their tournament finish as well as their regular season record
tournament champion
1963 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
1963 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament