The NCAA Division III women’s hockey championships are set to open this weekend with the opening round scheduled for March 14, culminating in the tournament final on March 29.<\/p>\n
After back-to-back titles, the UW-River Falls, who defeated Amherst, 3-1 in the 2025 championship, will look to make it three straight. They’ll wait for the winner of Williams and Plattsburgh State from the opening round.<\/p>\n
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Amherst is also back and looking for vengeance and a title of their own. They’ll face Saint Benedict in their opening round match up.<\/p>\n
Norwich and Nazareth were the other programs to receive first round byes.<\/p>\n
The teams who earned automatic bids as their conference champions include CNE champoins Endicott, MAC winners Wilkes, MIAC title holders Saint Benedict; NESCAC champions Amherst; SUNYAC champs Plattsburgh State; UCHC winners \u200b\u200bElmira, and WNCHA champions Adrian.<\/p>\n
The first round will open on March 14 with Amerherst playing Saint Benedit, Wilkes facing Adrian, Williams taking on Plattsburgh State, Augsburg playing Elmira, and Hamline taking on Endicott.<\/p>\n
The quarterfinals drop the puck March 21, followed by the NCAA D3 semifinals on March 27 and the national championship game March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA Division III women’s hockey championships are set to open this weekend with the opening round scheduled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[47397,5,4788,58709,58710],"class_list":["post-496354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-amherst","tag-hockey","tag-ncaa-division-iii","tag-plattsburgh-state","tag-saint-benedict"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116204631916614014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}