NCAA Division I independent schools (ice hockey)


NCAA Division I independent schools are teams that compete in NCAA ice hockey but are not members of a conference. There are several current schools who, at one time or another, competed as Division I independents.

Current independent programs

Men

The Sun Devils moved up from club hockey in the ACHA to full varsity status. Arizona State began playing a full Division I schedule in 2016–17.

Women

As of the 2019–20 season, no women's programs compete as independents in the National Collegiate division of women's ice hockey, the de facto equivalent of Division I in that sport. The NCAA has never sponsored a Division II championship in the sport, although it does sponsor a Division III championship.
Five schools competed as independents in the 2018–19 season, all participating in the nascent New England Women's Hockey Alliance, which had originally been established in 2017 as a scheduling alliance among all of the then-current National Collegiate independents. The NEWHA initially included six schools, but Holy Cross left after the inaugural 2017–18 NEWHA season to join Hockey East. The NEWHA officially organized as a conference in advance of the 2018–19 season, but was not officially recognized by the NCAA as a Division I league until the 2019–20 season, by which time the newly launched LIU program had joined as the sixth member.

Current programs which were at one point independent

Men

Women

Defunct teams

Men

Women