National Collegiate Hockey Conference

The National Collegiate Hockey Conference ( NCHC ) is an American university and college sports league, which represents a six ice hockey Conferences under the umbrella organization of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). The eight teams Conference was founded in 2011 as an all-male league, but took only for the 2013/14 season the operation of gambling in Division I of the NCAA on. The participants are all from the West and Midwest of the United States.

History

In 2011, the Pennsylvania State University announced its intention to participate in 2013 with a hockey team in the game operation of the NCAA. This had a strong Umstruktierierung of Hockey -conference system the NCAA result, as the Penn State was the sixth member of the Big Ten Conference, which is an ice hockey team. Six is limit at which direct a new Conference can be opened, what the other five members of the Big Ten Hockey division penetrated. By participating from the 2013/14 season Big Ten Conference, the Central Collegiate Hockey Association was dissolved. As a result, came together a team of dissolved CCHA ( Miami University ), and five of the WCHA (Colorado College, University of Denver, University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Nebraska Omaha and University of North Dakota ) to six teams with a new Conference to reasons. This was announced in July 2011 and also fixed the commencement of participation in the operation of the NCAA game on the 2013/14 season.

In September 2011 it was announced that the St. Cloud State University and Western Michigan University to join the new NCHC, and set the number of participating teams so early in the season to eight. In March 2013, finally, the logo of the NCHC was revealed that eight stars for the eight members and start a hockey stick shows.

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