Tempe – In anticipation of its first year as a member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, Sun Devil Hockey announced its full schedule for the 2024-25 academic year in conjunction with the NCHC's conference-only schedule announcement Tuesday morning.
ASU will play 18 home games, including seven two-game series, in addition to the Desert Hockey Classic and an exhibition series against the U.S. National Team Development Program. ASU could potentially play teams from all conferences on its 2024-25 schedule.
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With the addition of ASU to the NCHC, the conference will create 3-team pods based on geography, with teams guaranteed to play home-and-away series against the other two teams in the pods each season (8 games). A new schedule model called Rotation was adopted. . ASU is in the same pod as the University of Denver and the University of Colorado.
Seven teams on the Sun Devils' schedule qualified for the 2024 NCAA Tournament, three teams appeared in the NCAA Regional Finals, and Denver, which ASU faces four times during the season, won the national championship.
The Sun Devils host three of the four NCHC Frozen Faceoff teams in Denver, Omaha and North Dakota. ASU heads to St. Cloud State, his fourth participant in the Frozen Faceoff.
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The Maroon and Gold will begin their 10th season at the NCAA Division I level on Oct. 5-6 at Air Force Road.
ASU begins its nonconference home schedule on Oct. 11 and 12 against the Michigan Wolverines, a Frozen 4 participant and blueblood program.
In a change from their final year as an independent program, the Sun Devils will play 18 games in 2024-2025. The team will spend nearly a month in enemy territory, including non-conference visits to Providence on Oct. 18-19 and northern Michigan on Oct. 25-26. ASU concludes its three-week stint with a road trip to its first-ever NCHC game at the University of Colorado on Nov. 8 and 9.
The Sun Devils will return to Tempe and play their first home conference game against Omaha at Mallett Arena on Nov. 15 and 16. ASU gears up once again to take on the reigning national champion Denver Pioneers in the Mile High City on November 22nd and 23rd.
ASU concludes the calendar year with a home series against Minnesota Duluth on Dec. 6-7 and an exhibition series against USNTDP on Dec. 28-29.
In preparation for 2025, ASU will host the Desert Hockey Classic on Jan. 3-4 with participating teams UMass, Robert Morris and Cornell University. ASU hosts North Dakota State on Jan. 10-11, rekindling conference play in the second half of the schedule.
The team will travel to St. Cloud to take on the Huskies on January 17-18, then return home to complete a home-and-away series against the University of Colorado in Tempe on January 24-25.
ASU will travel to Ohio State for the second year in a row to take on the Miami Redhawks in Oxford from January 31st to February. 1 will be followed by a home series against Denver on February 7th and 8th.
The final leg of the regular season includes a trip to Duluth, Minnesota, on February 14-15, a home series against Western Michigan on February 21-22, and a trip to Omaha, February 28-March 3. is included. 1.
Game 3 of the NCHC quarterfinals will begin on March 14th and 15th at the campus venue. The final year of NCHC's Frozen Faceoff in St. Paul is scheduled to be held March 21 and 22 at the Xcel Energy Center.
The NCAA Tournament begins on March 28th, with the 2025 season culmination for Frozen 4 taking place in St. Louis, Missouri.
About the new schedule model of National Consumer Affairs Center
The conference will adopt a new scheduling model and rotation consisting of pods of three teams based on geography, with teams guaranteed to play home and away series against the other two teams in the pod each season. (8 games). The three team pods are Arizona State, Colorado and Denver. Duluth, Minnesota, North Dakota, and St. Cloud. Miami, Omaha, and Western Michigan.
The remaining 16 conference games will be played against 6 “non-pod” teams, 4 opponents will be played in only one series (8 games) at home or away, and 2 “non-pod” opponents is played both at home and away. Away series (8 games). The “non-pod” teams in which he is played once or twice in the series rotate over three seasons.
ASU record vs. NCHC teams
University of Colorado (6-2-2)
Denver (2-9-1)
Miami (0-1-1)
Duluth, Minnesota (0-2-0)
Omaha (4-6-1)
North Dakota State (1-0-0)
St. Cloud State University (0-3-0)
Western Michigan (0-1-1)
