2021-22 NCAA Division I Men's Independents

The NCAA Division I Men's Independents for the 2021-22 season.
The Arizona State Sun Devils Men's Ice Hockey program. The team has been morphed into an NCAA program from the American Collegiate Hockey Association after the 2015-16 season. The team played a hybrid schedule in 2015-16 with both NCAA and ACHA games being played. The team plays as a Division I Independent. The team had hoped to be in a conference by the 2017-18 season but the team has attempted to join a conference over the next few seasons with the Big Ten Conference or National Collegiate Hockey Conference being the most likely destinations for the program. The team would end up playing as a scheduling partner with the Big Ten Conference for the 2020-21 season with all games being played in the Big Ten teams rink as a way to salvage a season for the program.
On April 30,2020 Long Island University announced the start of a men's Men's Division I program to begin with the 2020-21 season. It is unknown as of the time of the announcement if the team will play as an independent for the 2020-21 season or if they are attempting to join a conference. https://www.uscho.com/2020/04/30/long-island-university-adding-d-i-mens-hockey-for-upcoming-2020-21-season/ the team would play as an independent for the season but work as a scheduling partner for the members of Atlantic Hockey.
Due to the disbanding of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association men's conference, the Alaska Nanooks men's ice hockey team was left without a conference as seven of the ten members of the conference withdrew to reform the Central Collegiate Hockey Association for the 2021-22 season. The other two teams in the conference (Alaska Anchorage and Alabama-Huntsville were both cancelled by their universities, but were saved by fundraising efforts. Due to time frames and other issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic both teams are sitting out the 2021-22 playing season with plans to return for 2022-23 as writing a schedule would have been next to impossible as many teams already had their allotment of non-conference games scheduled for the season.
*Stonehill College located in Easton, Massachusetts who were previously a member of the NCAA Division II Northeast-10 in all sports including men's ice hockey would announce on April 5, 2022 that all teams at the college including the newly formed women's ice hockey team would be elevated to Men's Division I status. The men's team will play as an independent and the women's team would play as a member of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance. The men's team will not be eligible for the NCAA tournament for five years as part of rules involving the elevation of programs from Division II to Division I.https://www.uscho.com/2022/04/05/stonehill-mens-hockey-moving-from-ncaa-d-ii-northeast-10-to-ncaa-division-i-for-2022-23-season-womens-hockey-to-join-newha-in-22-23/ The women's team would not be subject to the restriction as the women's tournament is open to Division I and II teams.
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