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As of 2023–24, no women's ice hockey programs operate at the Division II level. Five of the six D-II men's ice hockey schools (Assumption, Franklin Pierce, Post, Saint Anselm, Saint Michael's) field women's varsity teams; all compete in the New England Women's Hockey Alliance, a fully recognized league at the National Collegiate level (the de ...
Of the six schools that play under D-II regulations in men's ice hockey, four currently have women's varsity teams, all of which play in the NEWHA. Assumption started women's varsity play in 2023–24 as a NEWHA member.
The NCAA began holding a lower-tier national tournament in 1978. While most of the teams that played as Division II ice hockey programs actually belonged to schools who were classified as Division III, due to the relatively small number of programs the NCAA did not require the teams to be D-II.
The NCAA officially classifies all championship events that are open to schools from more than one division as "National Collegiate", except in men's ice hockey, in which the top-level championship is styled as a Division I championship (presumably due to the past existence of a Division II championship in that sport).
While many of the lower division schools playing with the "big schools" are frequently heavily outclassed, others not only compete successfully, but are among the elite programs in their sport (e.g. Alaska-Fairbanks in rifle, Johns Hopkins in men's lacrosse, Minnesota Duluth in both men's and women's ice hockey). Five Division III members are ...
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.
Former college varsity men's ice hockey teams (86 P) Pages in category "NCAA Division II men's ice hockey teams" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Suspended program when no other nearby Division II schools were willing to start ice hockey programs. North Adams State College: Mohawks: North Adams, Massachusetts: 1971–1972 1974–1975: ECAC 3 ECAC 2: School changed name to Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts before dropping ice hockey in 2003.