Indianapolis – The NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Committee has announced the 11 teams selected for the 2024 NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Championship. Of the 11 teams eligible for the championship, seven earned automatic berths as conference championship winners. One institution was selected from pool B. Pool B consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet automatic eligibility requirements. Three institutions were selected from Pool C. Pool C consists of institutions from automatic qualifying conferences that are not conference champions and independent institutions.
Conferences and teams that automatically qualify:
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | western new england |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustav Adolphus |
| new england hockey conference | elmira |
| New England Small College Athletic Conference | middlebury |
| State University of New York Athletic Conference | SUNY Cortland |
| United Collegiate Hockey Conference | Nazareth |
| Women's Northern Collegiate Hockey Association | Adrian |
The Pool B team was selected by the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, while the three schools selected from Pool C were Amherst, Hamilton and Plattsburgh State University.
This year's championship pairings are:
The first three games will be played on March 6th, and the quarterfinals four games will be played on March 9th. All tournament games will be held on campus. The first round games will take place at 7pm ET. The quarterfinal round games will be played at 3:00 PM ET. The host for the championship final will be decided on Saturday evening, March 9, after the quarter-final matches. The semi-finals will take place on March 15th at one of the four remaining institutions, and the championship game will take place on March 17th. For more information, including live webcasts of the semifinals and finals, visit ncaa.com.
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2023 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Gustavus Adolphus defeats Amherst 2-1 in three overtimes to win the first NCAA Division III Women's Ice Hockey Championship title, capping off a 27-3-0 season. .
