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The following is a list of the 64 schools that fielded men's ice hockey teams in NCAA Division I in the most recent 2023–24 season, plus the 44 schools that fielded women's teams in the de facto equivalent of Division I, the NCAA's National Collegiate division.
Division Conference Primary Others Start End University of St. Thomas: St. Thomas: Tommies: III: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference: Summit League: Central Collegiate Hockey Association, Pioneer Football League, Western Collegiate Hockey Association: 2021–22 2025–26 Lindenwood University: Lindenwood Lions: II: Great Lakes Valley ...
No women's ice hockey programs currently play under Division II regulations. The NCAA allows D-II members to play under Division I regulations in any sport that does not have a D-II national championship, and all D-II members that sponsor varsity women's hockey choose to play as D-I.
School City Conference Sport sponsorship Football Basketball Baseball Softball Ice hockey Soccer M W M W M W Aquinas Saints: Aquinas College: Grand Rapids: Wolverine-Hoosier: Cleary Cougars: Cleary University: Howell: Wolverine-Hoosier: Concordia Cardinals: Concordia University Ann Arbor [a] Ann Arbor: Wolverine-Hoosier [b] Cornerstone Golden ...
School City Conference Sport sponsorship Football Basketball Baseball Softball Ice hockey Soccer M W M W M W Amherst Mammoths: Amherst College: Amherst: NESCAC: Anna Maria AmCats: Anna Maria College: Paxton: Great Northeast [a] [b] [b] Babson Beavers: Babson College: Wellesley: NEWMAC [c] Brandeis Judges: Brandeis University: Waltham: UAA ...
Bemidji returned to Division I in 1999 as a charter member of College Hockey America, and moved to the WCHA for 2010–11. The Beavers were among the schools that revived the CCHA in 2021. Boston College Eagles [15] 1917–1961: ECAC: Currently competes in Hockey East. Boston University Terriers [16] 1917–1943 1945–1961: suspended program ECAC
Of these schools, 20 are Division II or III athletic programs that "play up" to Division I in hockey, and 16 of the full Division I members are in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Seven of the FBS schools compete in the Big Ten Conference ; six are full conference members and the seventh is a single-sport member.
Though U.S. colleges had been fielding men's ice hockey teams since 1895, [1] the NCAA did not have a formal tournament in place to decide a champion until after World War II. [2] Starting with the 1947-48 season, the NCAA tournament invited the four top-ranked teams to Colorado Springs, Colorado to compete for the NCAA Championship.