The National Collegiate Hockey Conference announced over the weekend that it will play the first half of its 2020-21 season in a bubble environment at Baxter Arena in Omaha, Neb. beginning on Dec. 1.
The second half of the season is expected to be contested on campus sites, according to USCHO.com. The conference will be split into East and West divisions, with the East featuring Miami, Minnesota Duluth, St. Cloud State and Western Michigan, and the West containing Colorado College, Denver, North Dakota and Omaha. Each school is scheduled to play its divisional opponents six times apiece, and the teams in the other division twice each.
Atlantic Hockey also recently announced that it will begin its 2020-21 campaign on Nov. 13, with 24 games being played per school this season, according to collegehockeynews.com. That slate will include two games per team against NCAA Division I newcomer Long Island University, which will skate as an Atlantic Hockey affiliate member this season, similar to how Arizona State will play as a part of the Big Ten this winter.
Atlantic Hockey will be split into two regional scheduling pods, with the east consisting of AIC, Army, Bentley, Holy Cross, and Sacred Heart, while the western pod will employ Canisius, Mercyhurst, Niagara, RIT, and Robert Morris, with schools facing pod opponents five games apiece, presumably at campus sites. Air Force will play the other 10 teams twice, and will face off against LIU four times.
In other men's college hockey news, both Yale and Boston University have suffered COVID-19 spikes lately. It is not known how that might affect scheduling in ECAC Hockey and Hockey East, respectively.
ADDENDUM: Soon after, the WCHA announced it plans to play an 18-game regular season.
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