2021 NCAA DI Men's Frozen Four Plans

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ZACH PEKALE | NCAA.COM | JANUARY 14, 2021

2021 Frozen Four: Dates, schedule for the men's college hockey championship

The 2021 Frozen Four will take place April 8 and 10 at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. See below for dates and schedule of events.


FROZEN FOUR: Everything you need to know about the NCAA men's hockey tournament


Regional competition sites for the DI Men's Ice Hockey Championship have not yet been determined. Here is the plan for preliminary rounds, according to the NCAA's health and safety plans released Jan. 11 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bids for predetermined preliminary rounds will be accepted now through Jan. 25, with the host sites to be announced the week of Feb. 8. For championships that typically have predetermined sites that have previously been announced, those sites will continue to host as long as local public health authorities determine it is safe to do so.


Regional site information will be posted here once that is available. ...


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From: College Hockey News - January 25, 2021

Manchester Withdraws as Regional Host, But No Plans to Change Rest of NCAA Tournament

CHN Staff Report

Manchester has withdrawn its bid to host one of this year's four NCAA Tournament Regionals, College Hockey News has learned, due to concerns about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Despite this, the NCAA is still currently planning to go ahead with a 16-team, four-regional setup for the NCAA Tournament, per usual.

The other three Regional sites this year are scheduled to be Bridgeport (Conn.), Loveland (Colo.) and Fargo (N.D). The NCAA is looking to find a new location for the fourth regional. ...

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CHN: Q&A With ... NCAA Committee Chair Mike Kemp

Checking In on Where Things Stand With This Year's Tournament ...

 

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And other opinions ...

Bracketology: Taking a look at how a different season across college hockey will impact the NCAA tournament

By Jayson Moy and Jim Connelly - February 24, 2021

It certainly is a strange year in college hockey and thus this year’s Bracketology column regarding the selection and seeding of the men’s NCAA Division I ice hockey tournament will be a little bit different than in the past.

Some things will be identical to the past, namely that all six conferences will receive one automatic qualifier for the tournament. All six conferences have identified that this qualifier will be awarded to the conference tournament champion.

But at-large selection of teams will change. Based on the extremely limited amount of inter-conference play, it is very difficult to compare one league to another and thus, one team to another. ...

Due to the unusual nature of this year’s selection process, the (NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Committee) will institute the use of two regional advisory committees comprised of six members each. Three national committee members from each region, as well as additional coach from each conference in the region, will serve on the regional advisory committees. The representatives were provided to the committee based on recommendations from the conference commissioners. These committees will assist in the observation and evaluation of teams and provide recommendations to the national committee.”

Let’s attempt to translate. ...


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From: The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)

Albany poised to host NCAA men’s hockey regional in March

By Mike MacAdam | February 23, 2021 | Updated at 6:00 pm

ALBANY — The Times Union Center lost out on hosting NCAA Tournament action in both men’s basketball and men’s hockey last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the arena is on the verge of recovering one of them right away.

Mike Kemp, the NCAA Men’s Hockey Committee chair, told Jess Myers of The Rink Live podcast on Monday that the Division I men’s hockey Northeast Regional scheduled for Manchester, New Hampshire, on March 27-28 would be relocated to Albany.

SNHU Arena officials and the host school University of New Hampshire had announced on Jan. 26 that the venue was withdrawing from holding the four-team event there because of ongoing COVID-19 safety concerns.

A person close to the situation in Albany confirmed that there will be an announcement from NCAA Hockey this week. ...

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@DATSOMATIC13 : You might get more replies if you ask your question in the 2020-21 Division I Hockey Thread. This thread was just an early look-ahead at the tournament.