NCHC Reveals 2025-26 Conference Schedule

The National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) revealed its 2025-26 league schedule on Monday. Once again, Colorado College will face a very demanding conference slate, including 16 of its 24 games against teams that either finished in the final ’24-25 USCHO.com Top 20 poll or received votes.

Head coach Kris Mayotte and the Tigers open league play the weekend of Oct. 31-Nov. 1 against Omaha at Robson Arena.

 

The following weekend, CC travels to Arizona State (Nov. 7-8), then returns to Colorado for the first weekend series in the Battle for the Gold Pan against the University of Denver. The teams will play at Magness Arena in Denver on Nov. 14, and Robson Arena on Nov. 15.

 

The Tigers close out the calendar year with a home series against Minnesota Duluth on Nov. 21-22, and at Miami on Dec. 12-13.

 

Beginning Jan. 9, 2026, Colorado College plays 14 consecutive league games, starting with a series at home against North Dakota (Jan. 9-10), followed by a weekend at Omaha on Jan. 23-24. During the second half of the season, CC will also host Arizona State (Jan. 30-31) and defending national champion Western Michigan (Feb. 20-21), and travel to St. Cloud State (Feb. 13-14) and Minnesota Duluth in the regular-season finale (Feb. 27-28).

 

The Gold Pan series concludes in early February, with CC and DU facing off at Robson Arena on Feb. 6 and Magness Arena on Feb. 7.

 

While NCHC teams have traditionally ended the regular season with their rival/travel partner, the 2025-26 season is an exception with the second year of a nine-team rotation. Beginning in 2026-27 with the addition of St. Thomas, teams will return to finishing the season against a pre-determined travel partner with an even number of teams (10).

 

Colorado College will not host Miami and St. Cloud State or travel to North Dakota and Western Michigan in ’25-26.

 

Following the regular season, the new NCHC playoff format will take place over three weeks entirely on campus sites. Like in 2025, only the top eight teams in the final standings will make the NCHC Tournament, with best-of-three quarterfinal series set for March 6-8, 2026, at the four highest seeds. The four quarterfinal series winners are then re-seeded with the two highest remaining seeds hosting single-game semifinals the following Saturday (March 14, 2026). The NCHC championship game will then be held the following Friday or Saturday (March 20 or 21, 2026) at the highest remaining seed, with the exact date still to be determined. 

 

Colorado College will be sending out renewals in May to its season ticket holders. Every home game at Robson Arena was sold out for the fourth consecutive season in ’24-25. For information on becoming a new season ticket holder, please visit www.cctigers.com/tickets.

 

CC will release its non-conference schedule, as well as game times and TV schedule, at a later date.