Your dream Division I hockey alignment

scRIbe

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First, to give credit where credit is due, the idea for this thread was inspired by such topics in other sections on this site as "Your ideal AHL structure" and "Your ideal ECHL structure."

With Arizona State phasing itself into the NCAA hockey landscape, the resultant speculation as to which conference it ultimately joins and various proposals for other major schools to get in the game, I thought about who I would like to see join in and the best way to divide the programs across the map.

Here is one fan's dream scenario, with hypothetically new or revived programs in bold face:

Atlantic Hockey: AIC, Army, Bentley, Canisius, Holy Cross, Mercyhurst, Pittsburgh, Niagara, Robert Morris, RIT, Sacred Heart, Syracuse

Big Ten: Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Wisconsin

ECAC: Leave exactly as it is

Hockey East: BC, BU, Connecticut, Maine, UMass, UMass-Lowell, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Northeastern, Providence, Rhode Island, Vermont

NCHC: Colorado College, Denver, Miami, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota, Notre Dame, St. Cloud State, Wayne State, Western Michigan

WCHA: Air Force, Alaska, Alaska-Anchorage, Alabama-Huntsville, Arizona State, Bemidji State, Bowling Green, Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Michigan Tech, Minnesota State, Northern Michigan
 

Bonin21

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Calling that a dream? That's more like a realistic ideal. Dream is the old WCHA.
 

Short Shorts

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WCHA: Alaska-Fairbanks, Alaska-Anchorage, Denver, Colorado College, Nebraska Omaha, North Dakota, Bemidji, St Cloud, Mankato, Duluth, Arizona State

CCHA: Michigan Tech, Northern Michigan, Lake Superior State, Ferris, Western Michigan, Notre Dame, Bowling Green, Miami, Alabama-Huntsville

Leave the rest as is.
 

RabidBadger

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Calling that a dream? That's more like a realistic ideal. Dream is the old WCHA.

2nd that about the WCHA. B1g hockey does not captivate me. Bringing back Wayne State would be great so I don't have to go to Ann Arbor/Lansing for college hockey.
 

sbkbghockey

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First, to give credit where credit is due, the idea for this thread was inspired by such topics in other sections on this site as "Your ideal AHL structure" and "Your ideal ECHL structure."

With Arizona State phasing itself into the NCAA hockey landscape, the resultant speculation as to which conference it ultimately joins and various proposals for other major schools to get in the game, I thought about who I would like to see join in and the best way to divide the programs across the map.

Here is one fan's dream scenario, with hypothetically new or revived programs in bold face:

Atlantic Hockey: AIC, Army, Bentley, Canisius, Holy Cross, Mercyhurst, Pittsburgh, Niagara, Robert Morris, RIT, Sacred Heart, Syracuse

Big Ten: Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Wisconsin

ECAC: Leave exactly as it is

Hockey East: BC, BU, Connecticut, Maine, UMass, UMass-Lowell, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Northeastern, Providence, Rhode Island, Vermont

NCHC: Colorado College, Denver, Miami, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota, Notre Dame, St. Cloud State, Wayne State, Western Michigan

WCHA: Air Force, Alaska, Alaska-Anchorage, Alabama-Huntsville, Arizona State, Bemidji State, Bowling Green, Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Michigan Tech, Minnesota State, Northern Michigan

Great start to the thread, the one that probably will never happen is Wayne State ever playing NCAA hockey again and possibly any hockey again as their ACHA program folded up shop after only a few seasons.
 

sbkbghockey

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Atlantic Hockey (10): Air Force, American International, Army, Bentley, Canisius, Holy Cross, Navy, Niagara, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart

Big Ten (10): Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Rutgers

CCHA (12): Bowling Green, Buffalo, Canisius, Evansville, Ferris State, Loyola (Chicago), Mercyhurst, Miami (OH), Notre Dame, Ohio, RIT, Western Michigan

ECAC (14): Brown, Clarkson, Columbia, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Quinnipiac, RPI, St. Lawrence, Union, Yale

Hockey East (14): Boston College, Boston University, UConn, Maine, UMass, UMass-Lowell, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Northeastern, Providence, Rhode Island, Stony Brook, Syracuse, Vermont

NCHC (10): Arizona State, Colorado College, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha, North Dakota Fighting Sioux, Oklahoma, Stanford, St. Cloud State, USC (calif.)

Southern Hockey Conference (SHC) (10): Alabama-Huntsville, Delaware, Duke, Georgia, Kennesaw State, Liberty, Mercer, North Carolina , Clemson, Vanderbilt

WCHA (12): Alaska-Anchorage, Alaska-Fairbanks, Bemidji State, Drake, Iowa State, Lake Superior St, Michigan Tech, Minot State, Minnesota State-Mankato, Minnesota State–Moorhead, Northern Michigan, Wisconsin-Milwaukee
 

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