2025–26 CCHA season

2025–26 CCHA season
Season2025–26
ConferenceCCHA
DivisionDivision I
Sportice hockey
DurationOctober 3, 2025–
March 21, 2026
Number of teams9
TV partner(s)Midco Sports+
NHL Entry Draft
Regular season
CCHA tournament
NCAA tournament
CCHA seasons
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The 2025–26 CCHA season will be the 47th season of play for the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and take place during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The season will begin on October 3, 2025, and the conference tournament is set to concluded on March 21, 2026.

Coaches

Records

Team Head coach Season at school Record at school CCHA record
Augustana Garrett Raboin 3 30–31–8 9–5–2
Bemidji State Tom Serratore 25 403–378–104 51–44–7
Bowling Green Dennis Williams 3 23–39–10 16–28–10
Ferris State Brett Riley 1 0–0–0 0–0–0
Lake Superior State Damon Whitten 12 155–218–33 42–57–3
Michigan Tech Bill Muckalt 1 0–0–0 0–0–0
Minnesota State Luke Strand 3 45–24–7 30–15–5
Northern Michigan Dave Shyiak 2 5–27–2 4–20–2
St. Thomas Enrico Blasi 5 48–89–9 38–56–8

Preseason

Coaches and members of the media were polled separately prior to the season and asked to both rank member programs as well as vote for an all-conference team, player of the year and rookie of the year.[3] Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players or teams

Coaches

Media

Standings

Conference record Overall record
GP W L T OTW OTL SW PTS GF GA GP W L T GF GA
Bemidji State 4 3 0 1 2 0 1 9 11 8 10 5 4 1 33 29
Bowling Green 4 2 1 1 0 1 0 8 13 10 6 2 3 1 15 17
Augustana 4 2 2 0 0 1 0 7 7 6 8 5 3 0 21 14
Michigan Tech 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 6 9 3 8 5 3 0 28 24
#15 Minnesota State 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 6 5 8 4 2 2 21 18
St. Thomas 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 6 9 3 5 1 32 37
Ferris State 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 8 1 7 0 17 30
Lake Superior State 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 8 3 4 1 28 29
Northern Michigan 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 0 10 0 14 39
Championship: March 20, 2026
† indicates conference regular-season champion (MacNaughton Cup)
* indicates conference tournament champion (Mason Cup)
Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated November 3, 2025

Non-Conference record

Team AHA Big Ten ECAC Hockey Hockey East Independent NCHC Total
Augustana 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Bemidji State 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Bowling Green 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Ferris State 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Lake Superior State 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Michigan Tech 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Minnesota State 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Northern Michigan 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
St. Thomas 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0
Overall 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0 0–0–0

Statistics

Conference Tournament

2026 CCHA men's ice hockey tournament

NCAA tournament

Ranking

USCHO

Team Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Final
Augustana
Bemidji State
Bowling Green
Ferris State
Lake Superior State
Michigan Tech
Minnesota State
Northern Michigan
St. Thomas

[4] Note: USCHO did not release a poll in week 12 or 26.

USA Hockey

Team Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Final
Augustana
Bemidji State
Bowling Green
Ferris State
Lake Superior State
Michigan Tech
Minnesota State
Northern Michigan
St. Thomas

[5] Note: USA Hockey did not release a poll in week 12.

NPI

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Final
Augustana 6 15 17 18 21 13 11
Bemidji State 49 30 27 26 26 28 25
Bowling Green 54 33 22 22 16 29 31
Ferris State 27 55 58 57 58 55 58
Lake Superior State 38 51 52 49 46 44 45
Michigan Tech 32 18 26 31 38 35 33
Minnesota State 2 10 11 7 6 9 10
Northern Michigan 51 62 62 62 62 61 61
St. Thomas 39 38 33 27 18 23 20

Note: teams ranked in the top-10 automatically qualify for the NCAA tournament. Teams ranked 11-16 can qualify based upon conference tournament results.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Ferris State tabs LIU's Riley as its next head coach". USCHO. March 28, 2025. Retrieved March 29, 2025.
  2. ^ "Michigan Tech hires Muckalt as Head Coach". College Hockey News. May 22, 2025. Archived from the original on May 22, 2025. Retrieved May 22, 2025.
  3. ^ "St. Thomas, Minnesota State picked first in CCHA preseason coaches, media polls; individual preseason player awards, teams also announced". USCHO. September 15, 2025. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
  4. ^ "USCHO Division I Men's Poll". USCHO.com. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  5. ^ "USA Today Men's Poll". USCHO.com. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  6. ^ "Men's Division I PairWise Rankings". USCHO.com. Retrieved November 26, 2019.