INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Committee has announced the eleven teams selected for the 2024 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship. Of the eleven teams in the championship field, seven of the teams received automatic qualification berths as winners of their conference championship. One institution was selected from Pool B, which consists of independent institutions and institutions that are members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for automatic qualification. Three institutions were selected from Pool C, which consists of institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that were not the conference champion and independent institutions.
Conferences and teams receiving automatic qualification:
| Commonwealth Coast Conference | Western New England |
| Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference | Gustavus 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 selected was University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and the three institutions selected from Pool C were Amherst, Hamilton, and Plattsburgh State.
Here is the bracket for this year’s championship:
Three first-round games will be played on March 6 and four quarterfinal games will be played on March 9. All tournament games will be played on campus sites. First round games will be played at 7 p.m. eastern. Quarterfinal round games will be played at 3 p.m. eastern. The host for the championship final will be confirmed Saturday night, March 9, after the conclusion of the quarterfinal games. The semifinals will take place at one of the four remaining institutions on March 15 and the championship game on March 17. For more information, including live webcasting of the semifinals and final, visit ncaa.com.
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In 2023, Gustavus Adolphus defeated Amherst 2-1 in triple overtime in Amherst, Massachusetts a to win their first NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Championship title and capped off a 27-3-0 season.
