2025 bracket
2025 tournament
Location, dates:
• Selection show: Sunday, March 9, 8:30 p.m. ET, NCAA.com
• First round: Campus sites, March 15
• Quarterfinals: Campus sites, March 22.
• Semifinals, finals: Hunt Arena, River Falls, Wis., March 28 and 30.
Qualifying teams: 12.
Format: Winners of four first-round games join four teams chosen for the quarterfinals. All rounds are single elimination.
Automatic qualifiers: Eight postseason tournament champions — from CNE, MAC, MIAC, NEHC, NESCAC, NCHA, SUNYAC and UCHC.
NCAA Division III women’s ice hockey committee
• Wendy McManus, Oswego athletic director (chair)
• Tracy Johnson, St. Olaf coach
• Keith Maurice, Trinity coach
• Kelly Rider, Curry coach
• Kimberly Sorensen, Marian senior woman administrator
Future championship sites
2026: Campus site of one of the participating teams
2027: Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
2028: Campus site of one of the participating teams
NCAA champions
| Year | Champion | Runner-up |
| 2024 | Wisconsin-River Falls | Elmira |
| 2023 | Gustavus Adolphus | Amherst |
| 2022 | Middlebury | Gustavus Adolphus |
| 2021 | No tournament due to COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic | |
| 2020 | No tournament due to COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic | |
| 2019 | Plattsburgh | Hamline |
| 2018 | Norwich | Elmira |
| 2017 | Plattsburgh | Adrian |
| 2016 | Plattsburgh | Wisconsin-River Falls |
| 2015 | Plattsburgh | Elmira |
| 2014 | Plattsburgh | Norwich |
| 2013 | Elmira | Middlebury |
| 2012 | Rochester Institute of Technology | Norwich |
| 2011 | Norwich | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 2010 | Amherst | Norwich |
| 2009 | Amherst | Elmira |
| 2008 | Plattsburgh | Manhattanville |
| 2007 | Plattsburgh | Middlebury |
| 2006 | Middlebury | Plattsburgh |
| 2005 | Middlebury | Elmira |
| 2004 | Middlebury | Wisconsin-Stevens Point |
| 2003 | Elmira | Manhattanville |
| 2002 | Elmira | Manhattanville |
