ECAC Hockey
American collegiate ice hockey conference
ECAC Hockey is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I for ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United States. This relationship ended in 2004; however, the ECAC abbreviation was retained in the name of the hockey conference. ECAC Hockey is the only ice hockey conference with identical memberships in both its women's and men's divisions.
Cornell University has won the most ECAC men's hockey championships with 14, followed by Harvard University at 11. Harvard leads the way with 6 ECAC women's hockey championships.Dartmouth College won the most recent men's championship and Quinnipiac University is the current women's champion. ECAC Hockey teams have won 10 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championships, with Quinnipiac's 2023 win being the most recent one.
History
ECAC Hockey was founded in 1961 as a loose association of college hockey teams in the Northeast.
Cornell won the first NCAA championship for ECAC Hockey in 1967 in 4-1 victory over fellow ECAC Hockey team Boston University.
The Big Red won their second title in 1970 to complete the first and thus far only undefeated campaign in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey history, this time with a 6-4 victory over Clarkson.
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