Multiple sources are reporting that the University of Notre
Dame will be headed to the Big Ten hockey conference beginning with the 2017-18
campaign.
The Fighting Irish have spent the last three seasons in
Hockey East after leaving the dissolving Central Collegiate Hockey Association
in 2013. Notre Dame (19-10-7 overall) has gone 60-44-14 overall in its three
seasons in Hockey East, according to USCHO.com.
The Irish spent the previous 21 seasons in the CCHA, winning
two regular-season championships and three playoff titles, including the final
Mason Cup in 2013. Prior to that, UND spent eight years as an independent team,
after two seasons in the CCHA and 10 years in the Western Collegiate Hockey
Association. The program was reborn as an independent varsity team in 1968
following a 41-year-hiatus.
The 13th-ranked Irish, who were swept by Northeastern in the
Hockey East quarterfinals earlier this month, will face former CCHA and (future
Big Ten) foe Michigan
on Saturday in an NCAA Midwest Regional semifinal. The winner will meet the
victor of the North Dakota-Northeastern contest for a berth in the 2016 NCAA Frozen
Four.
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