Here’s your latest look at what the Division I men’s college hockey conferences will look like in 2013-14, when realignment comes around. Bowling Green has committed to the WCHA and Notre Dame has said it’s going to Hockey East, which gives everyone from the current CCHA a new home.<\/p>\n
ATLANTIC HOCKEY (12 teams, unchanged)<\/strong> BIG TEN (6 teams, new)<\/strong> ECAC HOCKEY (12 teams, unchanged)<\/strong> HOCKEY EAST (11 teams, adds 1)<\/strong> NCHC (8 teams, new)<\/strong> WCHA (9 teams, loses 8, adds 5)<\/strong> INDEPENDENT (1 team)<\/strong> * – Schools at Division I level in all sports (38, 64 percent) Now we’re on the lookout for the next moves. Does Hockey East find a 12th member? Does Alabama-Huntsville survive its internal battle and find a conference home? What of Minnesota State-Moorhead and Buffalo, two schools that have indicated an interest in playing Division I hockey?<\/p>\n Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s your latest look at what the Division I men’s college hockey conferences will look like in 2013-14, when realignment comes around. Bowling Green has committed to the WCHA and Notre Dame has said it’s going to Hockey East, which gives everyone from the current CCHA a new home. ATLANTIC HOCKEY (12 teams, unchanged) Air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1444,679],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAir Force *
\nAmerican International #
\nArmy *
\nBentley #
\nCanisius *
\nConnecticut *
\nHoly Cross *
\nMercyhurst #
\nNiagara *
\nRochester Institute of Technology ^
\nRobert Morris *
\nSacred Heart *<\/p>\n
\nMichigan (from CCHA) *
\nMichigan State (from CCHA) *
\nMinnesota (from WCHA) *
\nOhio State (from CCHA) *
\nPenn State (from independent) *
\nWisconsin (from WCHA) *<\/p>\n
\nBrown *
\nClarkson ^
\nColgate *
\nCornell *
\nDartmouth *
\nHarvard *
\nPrinceton *
\nQuinnipiac *
\nRensselaer ^
\nSt. Lawrence ^
\nUnion ^
\nYale *<\/p>\n
\nBoston College *
\nBoston University *
\nMaine *
\nMassachusetts *
\nMassachusetts-Lowell #
\nMerrimack #
\nNew Hampshire *
\nNortheastern *
\nNotre Dame * (from CCHA)
\nProvidence *
\nVermont *<\/p>\n
\nColorado College (from WCHA) ^
\nDenver (from WCHA) *
\nMiami (from CCHA) *
\nMinnesota-Duluth (from WCHA) #
\nNebraska-Omaha (from WCHA) *
\nNorth Dakota (from WCHA) *
\nSt. Cloud State (from WCHA) #
\nWestern Michigan (from CCHA) *<\/p>\n
\nAlaska (from CCHA) #
\nAlaska-Anchorage #
\nBemidji State #
\nBowling Green * (from CCHA)
\nFerris State (from CCHA) #
\nLake Superior State (from CCHA) #
\nMichigan Tech #
\nMinnesota State #
\nNorthern Michigan (from CCHA) #<\/p>\n
\nAlabama-Huntsville #<\/p>\n
\n# – Schools at Division II level in most sports but Division I for hockey (15, 25 percent)
\n^ – Schools at Division III level in most sports but Division I for hockey (6, 10 percent)<\/p>\n