How many Division 1 Hockey Teams Are There?

NCAA Division 1 hockey teams are Air Force Falcons, Michigan Golden Gophers, Brown Bears, Colorado College Tigers, and more.  There are six conferences in NCAA Division I Championship.

The six conferences in Division I are Atlantic Hockey, Big Ten, Central Collegiate Hockey Association, Eastern College Athletic Conference, Hockey East, and National Collegiate Hockey Conference. 

Atlantic Hockey

1. Air Force Falcons
2. American International Yellow Jackets
3. Army West Point
4. Bentley Falcons
5. Canisius Golden Griffins
6. Holy Cross Crusaders
7. Mercyhurst Lakers
8. Niagara Purple Eagles
9. Robert Morris Colonials
10. RIT Tigers
11. Sacred Heart Pioneers

Big Ten

1. Michigan State Spartans
2. Michigan Wolverines
3. Minnesota Golden Gophers
4. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
5. Ohio State Buckeyes
6. Penn State Nittany Lions
7. Wisconsin Badgers

Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA)

1. Augustana
2. Bemidji State
3. Bowling Green 
4. Ferris State
5. Lake Superior State
6. Michigan Tech
7. Minnesota State
8. Northern Michigan
9. St. Thomas

Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)

1. Brown Bears
2. Clarkson Golden Knights
3. Colgate Raiders
4. Cornell Big Red
5. Dartmouth Big Green
6. Harvard Crimson
7. Princeton Tigers
8. Quinnipiac Bobcats
9. RPI Engineers
10. St. Lawrence Saints
11. Union Dutchman
12. Yale Bulldogs

Hockey East

1. Boston College Eagles
2. Boston University Terriers
3. UConn Huskies
4. Maine Black Bears
5. UMass Amherst Minutemen
6. UMass Lowell River Hawks
7. Merrimack Warriors
8. UNH Wildcats
9. Northeastern Huskies
10. Providence Friars
11. Vermont Catamounts

National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC)

1. Colorado College Tigers
2. Denver Pioneers
3. Miami RedHawks
4. Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs
5. Omaha Mavericks
6. North Dakota
7. St. Cloud State Huskies
8. Western Michigan Broncos

Division I Independents

1. Alaska Anchorage
2. Alaska Nanooks
3. Arizona State
4. Long Island University
5. Lindenwood Lions
6. Stonehill Skyhawks

NCAA hockey champions by year: Quinnipiac Bobcats (2023), Denver (2022), Massachusetts (2021), and more. The Championship has been held seventy-five times since 1948.

Quinnipiac Bobcats has won the Championship for the first time defeating Minnesota 3-2 in overtime. The Bobcats knocked off Minnesota just 10 seconds into the overtime.

The list of NCAA hockey champions by year is as follows;

• 2023: Quinnipiac (34-4-3)
• 2022: Denver (31-9-1)
• 2021: Massachusetts (20-5-4)
• 2020: The game canceled
• 2019: Minnesota Duluth (29-11-2)
• 2018: Minnesota Duluth (25-16-3)
• 2017: Denver (34-7-4)
• 2016: North Dakota (34-6-4)
• 2015: Providence (26-13-2)
• 2014: Union (N.Y.) (32-6-4)
• 2013: Yale (22-12-3)
• 2012: Boston College (33-10-1)
• 2011: Minnesota Duluth (26-10-6)
• 2010: Boston College (29-10-3)
• 2009: Boston University (35-6-4)
• 2008: Boston College (25-11-8)
• 2007: Michigan State (26-13-3)
• 2006: Wisconsin (30-10-3)
• 2005: Denver (32-9-2)
• 2004: Denver (27-12-5)
• 2003: Minnesota (30-8-9)
• 2002: Minnesota (32-8-4)
• 2001: Boston College (33-8-2)
• 2000: North Dakota (31-8-5)
• 1999: Maine (31-6-4)
• 1998: Michigan (32-11-1)
• 1997: North Dakota (31-10-2)
• 1996: Michigan (33-7-2)
• 1995: Boston University (31-6-3)
• 1994: Lake Superior State (31-10-4)
• 1993: Maine (42-1-2)
• 1992: Lake Superior State (30-9-4)
• 1991: Northern Michigan (38-5-4)
• 1990: Wisconsin (36-9-1)
• 1989: Harvard (31-3)
• 1988: Lake Superior State (33-7-6)
• 1987: North Dakota (40-8)
• 1986: Michigan State (34-9-2)
• 1985: Rensselaer (35-2-1)
• 1984: Wisconsin (33-10-4)
• 1982: Bowling Green (34-8-2)
• 1981: North Dakota (31-8-1)
• 1980: North Dakota (31-8-1)
• 1979: Minnesota (32-11-1)
• 1978: Boston University (30-2)
• 1977: Wisconsin (37-7-1)
• 1976: Minnesota (28-14-2)
• 1975: Michigan Tech (32-10)
• 1974: Minnesota (22-12-6)
• 1973: Wisconsin (29-9-2)
• 1972: Boston University (26-4-1)
• 1971: Boston University (28-2-1)
• 1970: Cornell (29-0)
• 1969: Denver (26-6)
• 1968: Denver (28-5-1)
• 1967: Cornell (27-1-1)
• 1966: Michigan State (16-13)
• 1965: Michigan Tech (24-5-2)
• 1964: Michigan (24-4-1)
• 1963: North Dakota (22-7-3)
• 1962: Michigan Tech (29-3)
• 1961: Denver (30-1-1)
• 1960: Denver (27-4-3)
• 1959: North Dakota (20-10-1)
• 1958: Denver (24-10-2)
• 1957: Colorado College (25-5)
• 1956: Michigan (20-2-1)
• 1955: Michigan (18-5-1)
• 1954: Rensselaer (18-5)
• 1953: Michigan (17-7)
• 1952: Michigan (22-4)
• 1951: Michigan (22-4-1)
• 1950: Colorado College (18-5-1)
• 1949: Boston College (21-1)
• 1948: Michigan (20-2-1)

Most NCAA hockey championships are won by Michigan Wolverines and Denver Pioneers. They have won it 9 times since 1948.

Michigan Wolverines

Michigan Wolverines compete in the Big Ten Conference. The team was a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association until 2013. 

Altogether the team has won nine NCAA Championships holding the record for most wins in NCAA ice hockey history. The team has reached for unmatched twenty-four times to the semis-finals which is now called "Fozen Four".

They won the title in 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1964, 1996, 1998.

Denver Pioneers

Denver Pioneers is one of only two Division I teams to win the NCAA Championships nine times. They hae won the NCAA National Hockey Championships in 1958, 1960, 1961, 1968, 1969, 2004, 2005, 2017, 2022.

The Pioneers entered the Frozen four for the 18th time in its history. It defeated the University of Michigan in the semi-finals.

North Dakota Flying Hawks

The Flying Hawks, formerly known as the Fighting Sioux is the college Ice hockey team at the Grand Forks campus of the University of North Dakota.

Appearing twenty-two times in the Frozen Four, the team has won 8 NCAA Division I Championship. The team has won fifteen WCHA Regular Season Championships, five NCHC, and 12 conference tournament.

The team has engraved their name in the trophy in 1959, 1963, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1997, 2000, 2016.

Wisconsin Badgers

The Badgers won their sixth NCAA Championship in 2006 over Boston College. The team had previously won 1973, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1990 Frozen Four Championships.

Wisconsin won in the first match they played in 2006 against Minnesota Golden Gophers, who for the first time had to lay the hands off of the trophy.

Network 54 female hockey is a general discussion forum on tapatalk.com. The current discussion group evolved from the Ontario Hockey Forum in 2013. 

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Division 2 field hockey colleges are Adelphi University, American International College, Assumption University, and more. There are 36 Division II field hockey teams in NCAA.

Other Colleges with Division II field hockey teams are:

• Belmont Abbey College
• Bentley University
• Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
• Coker University
• Converse University
• East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
• Franklin Pierce University
• Frostburg State University
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
• Lander University
• Limestone University
• Lincoln Memorial University
• Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
• Maryville University
• Mercy College
• Mercyhurst University
• Millersville University of Pennsylvania
• Molloy College
• Newberry College
• Pace University
• Queens University of Charlotte
• Saint Anselm College
• Saint Michael's College
• Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
• Slippery Rock University
• Southern Connecticut State University
• Southern New Hampshire University
• St. Thomas Aquinas College
• University of Mount Olive
• University of New Haven
• West Chester University of Pennsylvania
• Wingate University

The NCAA Division II Field hockey, organized by the NCAA, is an annual tournament which concludes with the national Champion of women's D2 in the United States.

The tournamend held for three years (1982, 1982, and 1983) and discontinued. It again restarted in 1992.

The Bloomsberg, team of Bloomsberg University of Pennsylvania, have won the Championship for unmatched 13 times in its history.

According to the NCSA College Recruiting, the top ten D2 Field Hockey Colleges are:

1. Bently University
2. Wesh Chester University of Pennsylvania
3. Assumption College
4. Stonehill College 
5. Bellarmine University
6. Slippery Rock University
7. Converse Colelge
8. Saint Anselm College
9. Queens University of Charlotte
10. Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania