Additional College Hockey Information

NCAA Division I Hockey
NCAA Division I Hockey Champions
NCAA Division I Award Winners
NCAA Division III Hockey
NCAA Club Hockey
Canadian USPORTS (University) and College Mens Hockey
NCAA Division I Women's Hockey
Canadian University Women's Hockey

The National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) was formed on July 9, 2011, beginning play for the 2013–14 season, as a reaction to the creation of the Big Ten Hockey Conference. When Wisconsin and Minnesota departed the WCHA, existing differences in philosophy among the remaining schools prompted five of them (Colorado College, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha and North Dakota) to form their own conference along with CCHA member Miami. Western Michigan (of the CCHA) and St. Cloud State (from the WCHA) were invited to join, bringing the total number of teams in the inaugural 2013-14 season of the conference to eight.

With the addition of a Penn State program for the 2012-13 season, the Big 10 had six teams with men’s hockey programs and started started their own hockey conference. Minnesota and Wisconsin left the WCHA, while Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State left the CCHA to join thee new conference.

Atlantic Hockey is a college athletic conference which operates primarily in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey only conference. Previously (1997 to 2003) it was the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC).

Hockey East Association is a college athletic conference which operates in New England. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. Hockey East came into existence in 1984 for men's hockey, when most of its current members split apart from what is today known as ECAC Hockey.

ECAC Hockey is a college athletic conference that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference until 2004. The ECAC Hockey League was founded in 1962.

The Central Collegiate Hockey Association was a college athletic conference which operated mostly in Michigan and Ohio, although it also had members in Alaska and Indiana. It participated in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. The CCHA was disbanded after the 2012–13 season when the Big 10 started its own conference. It was dormant until 2021–22 season, when seven members of the WCHA left to form a revived Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The league considers games and statistics prior to its original demise to be part of the current leagues history.

In the early days of college hockey teams played as independents before the inception of leagues or conferences. To this day some teams continue that tradition.

The Western Collegiate Hockey Association was a college athletic conference which operated over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participated in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. The Mens portion of the conference was dropped after the 2020-21 season. The league was founded in 1951 as the Midwest Collegiate Hockey League (MCHL), then was known as the Western Intercollegiate Hockey League (WIHL) until 1958, and finally as the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in 1959.

College Hockey America (CHA) was a college ice hockey conference in the United States. It participated in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference. Originally founded 1999 from teams moving up from Division II, after the NCAA stopped sanctioning Division II hockey in 1998, and existing Division I independent teams. The men's division folded after the 2009–2010 season.

From 1998 to 2003, the MAAC sponsored ice hockey. At that time, the hockey league split from the MAAC and changed its name to Atlantic Hockey.

Six teams played the initial Tri-State season in 1950-51: Clarkson St. Lawrence, Rensselaer, Colgate, Middlebury and Williams. In the first season each school played one another once, resulting in five conference games for every team. After the initail season Colgate left the conference, leaving the league with only five member teams. The following year seven western teams formed the MCHL while the league lost another team in Williams leaving only foue schools..The Tri-State League would send a representative to the NCAA tournament each year from 1952 through 1964. Middlebury left the conference after 1958–59. In 1961 when the ECAC Hockey was formed including all three remaining teams joined that conference.

The Great West Hockey Conference was a short-lived hockey conference. Formed in 1985 by: the University of Alaska Anchorage, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Northern Arizona University, and U.S. International University.

The teams played a 12-game schedule in the 1985–86 season, with U.S. International winning the championship. Northern Arizona dropped their hockey program after the first season.The three remaining teams played two more seasons, with Alaska–Anchorage winning the 1986–87 championship, and Alaska–Fairbanks winning in 1987–88.

During the 1987–88 season, the conference's announced expansion to 9 teams fell through and with U.S. International dropping its hockey program the conference dissolved.

The NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Championship is a single game elimination tournament that determines the collegiate national champion. The tournament that was initialy held in 1948, currently features 16 teams representing all of the Division I conferences. The Championship Committee seeds the entire field from 1 to 16 in four regionals of 4 teams. The winners of the Division I conference championships receive automatic bids to participate in the NCAA Championship. The tournament begins with initial games played at four regional sites culminating with the semi-finals and finals played at a single site.

NCAA Division I Champions

Each year the NCAA Division I Hockey recognizes players and coaches at the end of the season. These awards include the Hobey Baker Award that recognizes the Most Ooutsatnding player, the Spencer Penrose award for the coach of the year and others.

NCAA Award Winners