NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship

The annual NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship tournament determines the top ice hockey team in the NCAA Division I, Division II, and Division III. ^[1]

This tournament is a single elimination competition that has determined the collegiate national champion since the inaugural 1948 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament. The semi-finals and finals are called by the trademarked name of Frozen Four. The tournament was first referred to by this moniker in 1999. The term is derived from the term "final four." The tournament structure begins with four regional sites culminating to a single site, where the national semifinals and final game are played.^[1] The NCAA started a Women's Frozen Four beginning in the 2000-01 season.

The Hobey Baker Award ceremony, Hockey Humanitarian Award ceremony, and USCHO.com Town Hall Meeting take place annually during Frozen Four weekend.^[2]

Division I

Championship game results
Rankings by most championships
Rankings by state
Tournament format history

Division II

Championship game results

Division III

Championship game results

References

Division I

Championship game results

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	City	Arena
1948	Michigan	8–4	Dartmouth	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1949	Boston College	4–3	Dartmouth	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1950	Colorado College	13–4	Boston University	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1951	Michigan	7–1	Brown	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1952	Michigan	4–1	Colorado College	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1953	Michigan	7–3	Minnesota	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1954	Rensselaer	5–4 (OT)	Minnesota	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1955	Michigan	5-3	Colorado College	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1956	Michigan	7–5	Michigan Tech	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1957	Colorado College	13–6	Michigan	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1958	Denver	6–2	North Dakota	Minneapolis, MN	Williams Arena
1959	North Dakota	4–3 (OT)	Michigan State	Troy, NY	RPI Field House
1960	Denver	5–3	Michigan Tech	Boston, MA	Matthews Arena
1961	Denver	12–2	St. Lawrence	Denver, CO	University of Denver Arena
1962	Michigan Tech	7–1	Clarkson	Utica, NY	Utica Memorial Auditorium
1963	North Dakota	6–5	Denver	Chestnut Hill, MA	McHugh Forum
1964	Michigan	6–3	Denver	Denver, CO	University of Denver Arena
1965	Michigan Tech	8–2	Boston College	Providence, RI	Meehan Auditorium
1966	Michigan State	6–1	Clarkson	Minneapolis, MN	Williams Arena
1967	Cornell	4–1	Boston University	Syracuse, NY	Onondaga War Memorial
1968	Denver	4–0	North Dakota	Duluth, MN	Duluth Entertainment Center
1969	Denver	4–3	Cornell	Colorado Springs, CO	Broadmoor Arena
1970	Cornell	6–4	Clarkson	Lake Placid, NY	Olympic Center
1971	Boston University	4–2	Minnesota	Syracuse, NY	Onondaga War Memorial
1972	Boston University	4–0	Cornell	Boston, MA	Boston Garden
1973	Wisconsin	4–2	Denver	Boston, MA	Boston Garden
1974	Minnesota	4–2	Michigan Tech	Boston, MA	Boston Garden
1975	Michigan Tech	6–1	Minnesota	St. Louis, MO	St. Louis Arena
1976	Minnesota	6–4	Michigan Tech	Denver, CO	University of Denver Arena
1977	Wisconsin	6–5 (OT)	Michigan	Detroit, MI	Olympia Stadium
1978	Boston University	5–3	Boston College	Providence, RI	Providence Civic Center
1979	Minnesota	4–3	North Dakota	Detroit, MI	Olympia Stadium
1980	North Dakota	5–2	Northern Michigan	Providence, RI	Providence Civic Center
1981	Wisconsin	6–3	Minnesota	Duluth, MN	Duluth Entertainment Center
1982	North Dakota	5–2	Wisconsin	Providence, RI	Providence Civic Center
1983	Wisconsin	6–2	Harvard	Grand Forks, ND	Ralph Engelstad Arena
1984	Bowling Green	5–4 (4OT)	Minnesota-Duluth	Lake Placid, NY	Olympic Center
1985	Rensselaer	2–1	Providence	Detroit, MI	Joe Louis Arena
1986	Michigan State	6–5	Harvard	Providence, RI	Providence Civic Center
1987	North Dakota	5–3	Michigan State	Detroit, MI	Joe Louis Arena
1988	Lake Superior State	4–3 (OT)	St. Lawrence	Lake Placid, NY	Olympic Center
1989	Harvard	4–3 (OT)	Minnesota	Saint Paul, MN	Saint Paul Civic Center
1990	Wisconsin	7–3	Colgate	Detroit, MI	Joe Louis Arena
1991	Northern Michigan	8–7 (3OT)	Boston University	St. Paul, MN	St. Paul Civic Center
1992	Lake Superior State	5–3	Wisconsin^#	Albany, NY	Knickerbocker Arena
1993	Maine	5–4	Lake Superior State	Milwaukee, WI	Bradley Center
1994	Lake Superior State	9–1	Boston University	Saint Paul, MN	Saint Paul Civic Center
1995	Boston University	6–2	Maine	Providence, RI	Providence Civic Center
1996	Michigan	3–2 (OT)	Colorado College	Cincinnati, OH	Riverfront Coliseum
1997	North Dakota	6–4	Boston University	Milwaukee, WI	Bradley Center
1998	Michigan	3–2 (OT)	Boston College	Boston, MA	FleetCenter
1999	Maine	3–2 (OT)	New Hampshire	Anaheim, CA	Arrowhead Pond
2000	North Dakota	4–2	Boston College	Providence, RI	Providence Civic Center
2001	Boston College	3–2 (OT)	North Dakota	Albany, NY	Pepsi Arena
2002	Minnesota	4–3 (OT)	Maine	Saint Paul, MN	Xcel Energy Center
2003	Minnesota	5–1	New Hampshire	Buffalo, NY	HSBC Arena
2004	Denver	1–0	Maine	Boston, MA	FleetCenter
2005	Denver	4–1	North Dakota	Columbus, OH	Value City Arena
2006	Wisconsin	2–1	Boston College	Milwaukee, WI	Bradley Center
2007	Michigan State	3–1	Boston College	St. Louis, MO	Scottrade Center
2008	Boston College	4–1	Notre Dame	Denver, CO	Pepsi Center
2009	Washington, D.C.	Verizon Center
2010	Detroit, MI	Ford Field
2011	Saint Paul, MN	Xcel Energy Center
2012	Tampa, FL	St. Pete Times Forum

# - Participation in the tournament vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions.

Rankings by most championships

If teams have equal amount of championships, most recently won is listed first.

Rank	School	#
1	Michigan	9
2	Denver	7
2	North Dakota	7
4	Wisconsin	6
5	Minnesota	5
6	Boston University	4
7	Boston College	3
	Michigan State	3
	Lake Superior State	3
	Michigan Tech	3
10	Maine	2
	Rensselaer	2
	Cornell	2
	Colorado College	2
15	Northern Michigan	1
	Harvard	1
	Bowling Green	1

Rankings by state

The following list is of championships won ranked by state.

Rank	State	School	#
1	Michigan	Michigan (9) Lake Superior State (3) Michigan State (3) Michigan Tech (3) Northern Michigan (1)	19
2	Colorado	Denver (7) Colorado College (2)	9
3	Massachusetts	Boston University (4) Boston College (3) Harvard (1)	8
4	North Dakota	North Dakota (7)	7
5	Wisconsin	Wisconsin (6)	6
6	Minnesota	Minnesota (5)	5
7	New York	Cornell (2) Rensselaer (2)	4
8	Maine	Maine (2)	2
9	Ohio	Bowling Green (1)	1

Tournament format history

1948?1976

4 teams (1 game series)

1977?1980

5-6 teams (1 game series)

1981?1987

8 teams (2 game, total goals first round at higher seed)

1988?1991

12 teams (best of 3 games first round series at higher seed)

1992?2002

12 teams (divided up into 2 regionals, East Regional and West Regional; 6 Teams each)

2003?present

16 teams (divided up into 4 regionals: Northeast, East, Midwest and West Regionals: 4 Teams each)

Division II

The Division II Championship was suspended following 1999, due to a lack of sponsoring schools. Most of the schools in Division II hockey became members of newly formed hockey conferences such as College Hockey America.

Championship game results

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Notes
1978	Merrimack	12–2	Lake Forest
1979	Lowell	6–4	Mankato State
1980	Mankato State	5–2	Elmira
1981	Lowell	5–4	Plattsburgh State
1982	Lowell	6–1	Plattsburgh State
1983	RIT	4–2	Bemidji State
1984	Bemidji State	6–3, 8–1	Merrimack	Two-game, total-goal series
1985-1992	Not held
1993	Bemidji State	10–6, 5–0	Mercyhurst	Best-of-three series
1994	Bemidji State	3–5, 2–1, 2–1 (OT)	Ala.-Huntsville
1995	Bemidji State	6–2, 5–4	Mercyhurst
1996	Ala.-Huntsville	7–1, 3–0	Bemidji State
1997	Bemidji State	3–2, 4–2	Ala.-Huntsville
1998	Ala.-Huntsville	6–2, 5–2	Bemidji State
1999	St. Michael's	4–4, 8–5	New Hampshire College

Division III

Championship game results

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up
1984	Babson	8–0	Union (N.Y.)
1985	RIT	5–1	Bemidji State
1986	Bemidji State	8–5	Plattsburgh State
1987	Plattsburgh State	8–3	Oswego State
1988	Wis.-River Falls	7–1, 3–5, 3–0	Elmira
1989	Wis.-Stevens Point	3–3, 3–2	RIT
1990	Wis.-Stevens Point	10–1, 3–6, 1–0	Plattsburgh State
1991	Wis.-Stevens Point	6–2	Mankato State
1992	Plattsburgh State	7–3	Wis.-Stevens Point
1993	Wis.-Stevens Point	4–3 (OT)	Wis.-River Falls
1994	Wis.-River Falls	6–4	Wis.-Superior
1995	Middlebury	1–0	Fredonia State
1996	Middlebury	3–2	RIT
1997	Middlebury	3–2	Wis.-Superior
1998	Middlebury	2–1	Wis.-Stevens Point
1999	Middlebury	5–0	Wis.-Superior
2000	Norwich	2–1	St.Thomas (Minn.)
2001	Plattsburgh State	6–2	RIT
2002	Wis.-Superior	3–2 (OT)	Norwich
2003	Norwich	2–1	Oswego State
2004	Middlebury	1–0 (OT)	St. Norbert
2005	Middlebury	5–0	St. Thomas (Minn)
2006	Middlebury	3–0	St. Norbert
2007	Oswego State	4–3 (OT)	Middlebury
2008	St. Norbert	2-0	Plattsburgh State