2019–20 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season

The 2019–20 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season was the 19th season of competition in the National Collegiate division of NCAA women's ice hockey, the de facto equivalent of Division I in that sport. The season began in September 2019 and was end with the 2020 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament's championship game at Agganis Arena in Boston on March 22, 2020. The tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
==Changes from 2018–19==
The most significant change from the 2018–19 season was the recognition of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) as an official NCAA conference. The NEWHA was founded in 2017 as a scheduling alliance by the six schools that then competed as National Collegiate independents—full Division I members Holy Cross and Sacred Heart, plus Division II members Franklin Pierce, Post, Saint Anselm, and Saint Michael's. Holy Cross left after the first NEWHA season of 2017–18 to join Hockey East. Shortly before the 2018–19 season, the remaining five members formally organized as a conference and began the process of gaining full NCAA recognition.
In the meantime, LIU Brooklyn had announced that it would add women's ice hockey effective in 2019–20, and would join the NEWHA at that time. Shortly after this announcement, the school's parent institution, Long Island University, announced that it would merge the athletic programs of its two main campuses (Division I Brooklyn and Division II Post) into a single Division I program that would later be unveiled as the LIU Sharks.
With the conference membership returning to six for 2019–20, the NCAA officially approved the NEWHA as a Division I conference shortly before the start of that season. This action also meant that there would be no independent programs in that season, since the NEWHA membership included all of the previous National Collegiate independents.
==Polls==
==Regular season==
===Standings===
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==Player stats==
===Scoring leaders===
The following players lead the NCAA in points at the conclusion of games played on November 11, 2019.
Player	Class 	Team 	 	 	 	
 	Junior 	Wisconsin 	12	10	19	29
 	Senior 	Robert Morris	12	7 	19	26
 	Sophomore	Wisconsin 	12	10	14	24
 	Senior 	Wisconsin 	12	9 	13	22
 	Junior 	Clarkson 	12	11	10	21
 	Junior 	Minnesota 	12	11	9 	20
 	Freshman 	Clarkson 	12	6 	13	19
 	Sophomore	Minnesota 	12	8 	11	19
 	Sophomore	Northeastern 	9 	5 	14	19
===Leading goaltenders===
The following goaltenders lead the NCAA in goals against average.
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
Player	Class 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
 	Senior 	Yale 	4	232:48	4	0	0	1	3	.983	0.26
 	Junior 	Cornell 	6	364:02	5	0	1	3	3	.976	0.49
 	Junior 	Northeastern	9	532:23	8	1	0	8	3	.959	0.90
 	Senior 	Saint Anselm	4	243:09	3	1	0	4	1	.945	0.99
 	Sophomore	Connecticut 	5	297:28	4	1	0	6	2	.934	1.21
==References==
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