Best Hockey Schools

bclintonk
Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:37:26 +0000

cornell and harvard… at least that’s what I heard when I went to visit



Hah! Cornell hasn’t won a national championship since 1970. Harvard hasn’t won since 1989. They’re both good, for Ivies, but college hockey has become a bigtime sport at many Division I schools that offer athletic scholarships and the Ivies can’t really compete anymore on a national level.

BC and BU are perennial men’s hockey powers nationally. So are Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Denver, and Maine.



barrons:

Wisconsin has the best combo men’s and womens’s teams.



Actually, Minnesota and Wisconsin are very evenly matched in both men’s and women’s hockey, each with multiple national championships in both the men’s and women’s sport. Naturally they are ferocious rivals.

I’d say for the best combination of academics and athletics, it’s Michigan, Wisconsin, BC, and Minnesota, in that order. If you want to tip in the direction of academics over athletics, I’d say Harvard #1, Cornell #2, Michigan #3.