2025 bracket
2025 tournament
Locations, dates:
• Selection show: Monday, March 10, 10 a.m. ET, NCAA.com
• First round: Campus sites, March 15
• Quarterfinals: Campus sites, March 22
• Semifinals, finals: Campus site of one of the participating schools, March 28 and 30
Qualifying teams: 14
Format: The winners of six first-round games advance to the quarterfinals along with two teams that earn byes to the quarterfinals. All rounds are single elimination.
Automatic qualifiers: Ten postseason champions — from CNE, MASCAC, MAC, MIAC, NEHC, NESCAC, NCHA, SUNYAC, UCHC and WIAC
NCAA Division III men’s ice hockey committee
• Tyler Hynes, Wilkes coach (chair)
• Tristan Durgin, New England sports information director
• Danielle Harris, WIAC commissioner
• Graham Johnson, Milwaukee School of Engineering coach
Future sites
2026
• Championship: Adirondack Bank Center at the Utica Memorial Auditorium, Utica, N.Y.
2027
Championship played at campus site
2028
• Championship: Bob Suter’s Legacy20 Arena, Middleton, Wis.
NCAA champions
| Year | Champion | Runner-up |
| 2024 | Hobart | Trinity |
| 2023 | Hobart | Adrian |
| 2022 | Adrian | Geneseo |
| 2021 | No tournament due to COVID-19 coronavirus | |
| 2020 | No tournament due to COVID-19 coronavirus | |
| 2019 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | Norwich |
| 2018 | St. Norbert | Salve Regina |
| 2017 | Norwich | Trinity |
| 2016 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | St. Norbert |
| 2015 | Trinity | Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| 2014 | St. Norbert | Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| 2013 | Wisconsin-Eau Claire | Oswego |
| 2012 | St. Norbert | Oswego |
| 2011 | St. Norbert | Adrian |
| 2010 | Norwich | St. Norbert |
| 2009 | Neumann | Gustavus Adolphus |
| 2008 | St. Norbert | Plattsburgh |
| 2007 | Oswego | Middlebury |
| 2006 | Middlebury | St. Norbert |
| 2005 | Middlebury | St. Thomas |
| 2004 | Middlebury | St. Norbert |
| 2003 | Norwich | Oswego |
| 2002 | Wisconsin-Superior | Norwich |
| 2001 | Plattsburgh | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 2000 | Norwich | St. Thomas |
| 1999 | Middlebury | Wisconsin-Superior |
| 1998 | Middlebury | Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| 1997 | Middlebury | Wisconsin-Superior |
| 1996 | Middlebury | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 1995 | Middlebury | Fredonia |
| 1994 | Wisconsin-River Falls | Wisconsin-Superior |
| 1993 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | Wisconsin-River Falls |
| 1992 | Plattsburgh | Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| 1991 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | Minnesota State |
| 1990 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | Plattsburgh |
| 1989 | Wisconsin-Stevens Point | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 1988 | Wisconsin-River Falls | Elmira |
| 1987 | *vacant | Oswego |
| 1986 | Bemidji State | *vacant |
| 1985 | Rochester Institute of Technology | Bemidji State |
| 1984 | Babson | Union |
* Plattsburgh’s participation in the tournament was vacated by the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions
