2024 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament

2024 NCAA National Collegiate Women's
ice hockey tournament

Teams	11
Finals site	Whittemore Center Durham, New Hampshire
Champions	Ohio State Buckeyes  (2nd title)
Runner-up	Wisconsin Badgers  (11th title game)
Semifinalists	Clarkson Golden Knights (6th Frozen Four) Colgate Raiders (2nd Frozen Four)
Winning coach	Nadine Muzerall  (2nd title)
MOP	Raygan Kirk (Ohio State)
Attendance	7,931, 4,378 for Championship Game
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The 2024 NCAA National Collegiate women's ice hockey tournament was a single-elimination tournament by eleven schools to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. This was the third year the tournament features an expanded field of 11 teams. ^[1] The first round and quarterfinals were played on the campuses of the top 4 seeded teams on March 14 and 16, 2024, while the Frozen Four was played on March 22 and 24, 2024 at the Whittemore Center in Durham, New Hampshire. ^[2] The Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 1–0 to claim their 2nd national championship. ^[3]

Qualifying teams

Ohio State

Wisconsin

Colgate

Clarkson

Minnesota

Cornell

St. Lawrence

Minnesota Duluth

Connecticut

Penn State

Stonehill

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2024 Qualifying Teams
WCHA, ECAC, Hockey East, CHA, NEWHA

In the third year under this qualification format, the winners of all five Division I conference tournaments received automatic berths to the NCAA tournament. The other six teams were selected at-large.The top five teams are seeded. ^[4]

Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Appearance	Last bid
1	Ohio State	WCHA	32–4–0	At-large bid	6th	2023
2	Wisconsin	WCHA	33–5–0	Tournament champion	18th	2023
3	Colgate	ECAC	31–6–1	Tournament champion	5th	2023
4	Clarkson	ECAC	32–4–2	At-large bid	12th	2023
5	Minnesota	WCHA	27–9–2	At-large bid	21st	2023
	Cornell	ECAC	24–7–1	At-large bid	9th	2020
	St. Lawrence	ECAC	27–10–0	At-large bid	10th	2017
	Minnesota Duluth	WCHA	20–13–4	At-large bid	15th	2023
	Connecticut	Hockey East	25–7–5	Tournament champion	1st	Never
	Penn State	CHA	22–12–3	Tournament champion	2nd	2023
	Stonehill	NEWHA	20–15–2	Tournament champion	1st	Never

Bids by state

Bids	State(s)	Schools
4	New York	Clarkson, Colgate, Cornell, St. Lawrence
2	Minnesota	Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth
1	Connecticut	Connecticut
	Massachusetts	Stonehill
	Ohio	Ohio State
	Pennsylvania	Penn State
	Wisconsin	Wisconsin

Bracket

	First Round March 14 [5]					National Quarterfinals March 16					National Semifinals March 22					National Championship March 24
						8	Minnesota-Duluth	0
	9	Connecticut	0			1	Ohio State	9
	8	Minnesota-Duluth	1**								1	Ohio State	4
											4	Clarkson	1
						5	Minnesota	2
						4	Clarkson	3****
																1	Ohio State	1
																2	Wisconsin	0
						6	Cornell	1
	11	Stonehill	1			3	Colgate	3
	6	Cornell	7								3	Colgate	1
											2	Wisconsin	3
						7	St. Lawrence	0
	10	Penn State	0			2	Wisconsin	4
	7	St. Lawrence	1*

Note: each * denotes one overtime period

Results

First Round

Connecticut vs. Minnesota Duluth

March 14, 2024 7:01 pm

Connecticut

0–1 2OT (0–0, 0–0, 0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Minnesota Duluth

Ohio State University Ice Rink Attendance: 314

[Game reference 1]
	Tia Chan	Goalies	Ève Gascon	Referees: Amanda Tassoni Paul Maciejewski Linesmen: Michael Roberts Coby Munson
	0–1 97:13 – Mannon McMahon (Wallin, Jobst-Smith)
	4 min	Penalties	6 min
	33	Shots	49

Stonehill vs. Cornell

March 14, 2024 7:00 pm

Stonehill

1–7 (0–1, 1–5, 0–1)

Cornell

Class of 1965 Arena Attendance: 215

[Game reference 2]
	Eve Stone	Goalies	Annelies Bergmann	Referees: Nathan Shemo Mackenzie McGuire Linesmen: Jodi Price Mike Bontatibus
	0–1 18:49 – Rud (Yu) Petford (Feeney, Parker) – 25:40 1–1 1–2 26:21 – pp – Dwyer (Daniel) 1–3 30:01 – Regalado – (Jockims) 1–4 33:10 – Guilday (MacEachern, Schiff) 1–5 33:37 – Daniel (Delianedis, MacEachern) 1–6 39:39 – Guilday (Daniel, Regalado) 1–7 40:41 – Van Gelder (Daniel, Prefontaine)
	2 min	Penalties	0 min
	12	Shots	55

Penn State vs. St. Lawrence

March 14, 2024 (2024-03-14) 7:00 pm

Penn State

0 – 1 OT (0 – 0, 0 – 0, 0 – 0, 0 – 1)

St. Lawrence

LaBahn Arena Attendance: 701

[Game reference 3]
	Katie DeSa	Goalies	Emma-Sofie Nordstrøm	Referees: Robert Ludwig Mike Kaehler Linesmen: Aaron Neville Glendon Seal
	0 – 1 69:35 – Bahl (Duscio, Segedi)
	4 min	Penalties	2 min
	36	Shots	44

Quarterfinals

(5) Minnesota vs. (4) Clarkson

March 16, 2024 (2024-03-16) 2:00 pm

Minnesota

2–3 4OT (2–1, 0–0, 0–1, 0–0, 0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Clarkson

Cheel Arena Attendance: 2,041

[Game reference 4]
	Lucy Morgan	Goalies	Michelle Pasiechnyk	Referees: Kelly Cooke Courtney Drennon Linesmen: Evan Cooke Laura Schmidlein
	Bouveng – (Murphy, Wethington) – 7:26 1–0 Huber – (Bouveng, Murphy) – 8:47 2–0 2–1 16:27 – pp – Winn – (Guay, Gosling) 2–2 58:09 – Petrie – (Guay, Winn) 2–3 125:44 – pp – Petrie – (Gosling, Winn)
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	63	Shots	56

Cornell vs. (3) Colgate

March 16, 2024 (2024-03-16) 2:00 pm

Cornell

1–3 (0–1, 1–0, 0–2)

Colgate

Class of 1965 Arena Attendance: 1,102

[Game reference 5]
	Annelies Bergmann	Goalies	Kayle Osborne	Referees: Sarma Pone Gui Bradshaw Linesmen: Doug Durgin Sam Jerome
	0–1 16:33 – Kaltounková – (Biederman) 1–1 1–2 55:49 – Simpson – (Biederman) 1–3 59:59 – en – Biederman
	4 min	Penalties	2 min
	20	Shots	34

St. Lawrence vs. (2) Wisconsin

March 16 2:00 pm

St. Lawrence

0–4 (0–1, 0–0, 0–3)

Wisconsin

LaBahn Arena Attendance: 2,273

[Game reference 6]
	Emma-Sofie Nordstrøm	Goalies	Ava McNaughton	Referees: Chelsea Rapin Dmitrii Antipin Linesmen: Kaitlin Hayes Andrew Kirk
	0–1 0:16 – O'Brien – (Simms, Edwards) 0–2 44:24 – Wozniewicz – (Potter, Picard) 0–3 47:52 – Edwards – (Simms, Potter) 0–4 50:54 – Edwards – (O'Brien, Simms)
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	25	Shots	47

Minnesota Duluth vs. (1) Ohio State

March 16 4:01 pm

Minnesota Duluth

0–9 (0–3, 0–4, 0–2)

Ohio State

Ohio State University Ice Rink Attendance: 795

[Game reference 7]
	Ève Gascon	Goalies	Raygan Kirk	Referees: Scott Prim Alex Bergeron Linesmen: Jenny Cameron Alex Walsh
	0–1 0:22 – Amos – (Markowski) 0–2 13:25 – Mobley – (Bernard, Brengman) 0–3 15:53 – Bilka 0–4 20:29 – Bilka – (Dunne, Amos) 0–5 31:57 – pp – Hartmetz – (Webster, Peschel) 0–6 32:48 – Baxter – (Mobley, Barnes) 0–7 36:44 – Mobley – (Baxter) 0–8 44:29 – pp – Dunne – (Amos, Zanon) 0–9 54:46 – King – (Barnes, Markowski)
	5 min	Penalties	3 min
	16	Shots	39

Semifinals

(4) Clarkson vs. (1) Ohio State

March 22 4:00 pm

Clarkson

1–4 (1–1, 0–0, 0–3)

Ohio State

Whittemore Center

[Game reference 8]
	Michelle Pasiechnyk	Goalies	Raygan Kirk	Referees: Kelly Cooke Dmitrii Antpin Linesmen: Kaitlyn Hayes Andrew Kirk
	Cherkowski (McQuigge, Guay) – 2:25 1–0 1–1 13:53 – Webster (Buglioni) 1–2 53:12 – Matthews (Brengman, Webster) 1–3 57:00 – Dunne (Barnes, Gardiner) 1–4 58:06 – en – Hartmetz
	2 min	Penalties	0 min
	18	Shots	53

(3) Colgate vs. (2) Wisconsin

March 22 7:30

Colgate

1–3 (0–1, 0–0, 1–2)

Wisconsin

Whittemore Center Attendance: 3,553

[Game reference 9]
	Kayle Osborne	Goalies	Ava McNaughton	Referees: Chelsea Rapin Courtney Drennon Linesmen: Evan Cooke Laura Schmidlein
	0–1 11:00 – Simms – (O'Brien, Edwards) 0–2 51:29 – Jungels – (Curl, O'Brien) Kaltounková – (Brick, Greig) – 57:50 1–2 1–3 59:48 – en – Edwards
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	26	Shots	21

Championship

(2) Wisconsin vs. (1) Ohio State

March 24 4:00

Wisconsin

0–1 (0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Ohio State

Whittemore Center Attendance: 4,378

[Game reference 10]
	Ava McNaughton	Goalies	Raygan Kirk	Referees: Sarma Pone Gui Bradshaw Linesmen: Glendon Seal Aaron Neville
	0–1 52:48 – Dunne – (Bilka, Barnes)
	0 min	Penalties	0 min
	26	Shots	28

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

• G: Raygan Kirk*, Ohio State
• D: Cayla Barnes, Ohio State
• D: Caroline Harvey, Wisconsin
• F: Joy Dunne, Ohio State
• F: Kirsten Simms, Wisconsin
• F: Makenna Webster, Ohio State

* Most Outstanding Player ^[3]

See also

• NCAA women's ice hockey tournament
• 2024 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament

References

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Game references

1. "Connecticut Huskies @ Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs". UMDBulldogs.com. University of Minnesota Duluth. March 14, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
2. "Stonehill Skyhawks @ Cornell Big Red". CornellBigRed.com. Cornell University. March 14, 2024. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
3. "Penn State Nittany Lions @ St. Lawrence Saints". SaintsAthletics.com. St. Lawrence University. March 14, 2024. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
4. "Minnesota Golden Gophers @ Clarkson Golden Knights". ClarksonAthletics.com. Clarkson University. March 16, 2024. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
5. "Cornell Big Red @ Colgate Raiders". ColgateAthletics.com. Colgate University. March 16, 2024. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
6. "St. Lawrence Saints @ Wisconsin Badgers". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 16, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
7. "Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs @ Ohio State Buckeyes". OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Ohio State University. March 16, 2024. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
8. "Clarkson Golden Knights @ Ohio State Buckeyes". OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Ohio State University. March 22, 2024. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
9. "Colgate Raiders @ Wisconsin Badgers". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 22, 2024. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
10. "Wisconsin Badgers @ Ohio State Buckeyes". OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Ohio State University. March 24, 2024. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.