The 2023 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 2022–23 season, the 38th such tournament in NCAA history. Hobart defeated defending champion Adrian 3–2 in overtime to win the program's first national championship.

Qualifying teams Before the season, the NCAA amended its bylaws, lowering the requirement for conferences to receive automatic qualifiers from seven conference members to six. This meant that the WIAC champion would now be guaranteed a spot in the tournament field.

Twelve teams qualified for the tournament in the following ways: (Pool A) nine teams received bids as a result of being conference tournament champions from conferences that possessed an automatic bid, (Pool C) three additional teams received at-large bids based upon their records.

East West Seed School Conference Record Berth Type Appearance Last Bid Seed School Conference Record Berth Type Appearance Last Bid 1 Utica (1) UCHC 25–2–1 Tournament Champion 4th 20221 Adrian (4) NCHA 23–4–2 Tournament Champion 11th 20222 Endicott (2) CCC 22–2–2 Tournament Champion 3rd 20202 Wisconsin–Stevens Point WIAC 19–5–4 Tournament Champion 16th 20193 Hobart (3) NEHC 26–2–0 Tournament Champion 12th 20223 Augsburg MIAC 16–9–2 Tournament Champion 8th 20224 Curry CCC 21–5–1 At-Large 5th 20115 Plattsburgh State SUNYAC 20–5–2 Tournament Champion 20th 20176 Plymouth State MASCAC 23–3–1 Tournament Champion 6th 20227 University of New England CCC 19–6–2 At-Large 4th 20228 Norwich NEHC 19–6–2 At-Large 20th 20209 Bowdoin NESCAC 14–9–3 Tournament Champion 7th 2014

Format The tournament featured four rounds of play. All rounds were single-game elimination.

The top four rated teams received byes into the quarterfinal round and were arranged so that if they were to advance to the semifinals, the first seed would play the fourth seed and the second seed would play the third seed. Because there were three western teams and only one received a bye into the quarterfinals, all three were placed into the same bracket. Of the nine eastern teams, the six that did not receive byes were arranged so that the fourth eastern seed played the ninth eastern seed with the winner advancing to play the third eastern seed; the fifth eastern seed played the eighth eastern seed with the winner advancing to play the second eastern seed; and the sixth eastern seed played the seventh eastern seed with the winner advancing to play the first eastern seed. The higher-seeded team played host in all first round and quarterfinal matches.

Bracket

Note: * denotes overtime period(s)

Results

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

National Championship

All-Tournament Team

G: Damon Beaver* (Hobart) D: Austin Mourar (Hobart) D: Jaden Shields (Adrian) F: Luke Aquaro (Hobart) F: Wil Crane (Hobart) F: Ty Enns (Adrian) * Most Outstanding Player(s)

Record by conference Conference# of BidsRecordWin %QuarterfinalsFrozen FourChampionship GameChampions CCC 3 4–3 3 2 - - NEHC 2 4–1 2 1 1 1 MASCAC 1 0–1 - - - - MIAC 1 0–1 - - - - NCHA 1 2–1 1 1 1 - NESCAC 1 0–1 - - - - SUNYAC 1 0–1 - - - - UCHC 1 0–1 1 - - - WIAC 1 1–1 1 - - -

References

External links 2023 Division III Bracket