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Amalie Arena is hosting the Frozen Four for the third time in 2023 (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TAMPA, Fla. — One of the features that comes with hosting a Men’s Frozen Four is banners for each team that has won an NCAA championship, listing the years of their titles.<\/p>\n

There are 22 of them that go up in the rafters at Frozen Fours. Usually.<\/p>\n

They were hanging from the Amalie Arena catwalks when teams practiced on Wednesday but they were gone for Thursday’s semifinals.<\/p>\n

An NCAA spokesperson said the banners were impeding sight lines of the center-ice video board from the upper levels of the arena, so they were pulled up.<\/p>\n

Banners for Tampa Bay Lightning championships and retired numbers and the U.S. and Canadian flags hang above the ends of the rink at Amalie Arena.<\/p>\n

The NCAA championship banners will be back for the 2024 Men’s Frozen Four in St. Paul, Minn., according to the spokesperson. Saturday’s game will determine whether Minnesota gets a sixth year added to its banner or Quinnipiac becomes the 23rd team with one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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