(Tempe, AZ) In anticipation of its first year as a member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, Sun Devil Hockey released its full 2024-25 schedule, in coordination with the NCHC’s release of the conference-only schedule on Tuesday morning.
ASU will play 18 home games, including seven two-game series, in addition to the Desert Hockey Classic and an exhibition series against the U.S. National Team Development Program. ASU has the potential to play a team from every conference with the 2024-25 schedule.
With the addition of ASU to the NCHC, the conference adopted a new schedule model rotation with three, three-team pods based on geography with teams guaranteed to play home and away series against the other two teams in their pod every season (eight games). ASU is in a pod with Denver and Colorado College.
Seven teams on the Sun Devils’ schedule played in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, three competed in NCAA Regional Finals, and Denver, who ASU will play four times over the span of the season, won the national championship.
The Sun Devils host three of the four NCHC Frozen Faceoff teams in Denver, Omaha, and North Dakota. ASU travels to the fourth Frozen Faceoff participant, St. Cloud State.
The Maroon and Gold starts its 10th season at the NCAA Division I level on the road at Air Force Oct. 5-6.
ASU opens the non-conference home schedule against Frozen Four participant and blue blood program, the Michigan Wolverines Oct. 11-12.
In a change from their final year as an independent program, the Sun Devils are on the road for 18 games in 2024-25. The team spends nearly a month in enemy territories with non-conference visits to Providence Oct. 18-19 and Northern Michigan Oct. 25-26. ASU ends the three-week stint with a road trip for its first NCHC games in history at Colorado College Nov. 8-9.
The Sun Devils return to Tempe for their first home conference games at Mullett Arena against Omaha Nov. 15-16. ASU packs up again to take on the reigning national champions, the Denver Pioneers in the Mile High City Nov. 22-23.
ASU closes out the calendar year with a home series versus Minnesota Duluth Dec. 6-7 and an exhibition series against the USNTDP Dec. 28-29.
To ring in 2025, ASU hosts the Desert Hockey Classic with participant teams UMass, Robert Morris and Cornell Jan. 3-4. Conference play reignites in the second-half of the schedule as ASU hosts North Dakota Jan. 10-11.
The team takes a trip to St. Cloud to take on the Huskies Jan. 17-18, before returning home to complete the home and away series with Colorado College in Tempe Jan. 24-25.
ASU visits Ohio for the second consecutive year to face the Miami RedHawks in Oxford Jan. 31-Feb. 1 followed by the home series against Denver Feb. 7-8.
The final stretch of the regular season includes a trip to Minnesota Duluth Feb. 14-15, a home series against Western Michigan Feb. 21-22, and a road trip to Omaha Feb. 28-Mar. 1.
On March 14-15, the best-of-three NCHC quarterfinals begin on campus sites. The final year of the NCHC’s Frozen Faceoff in St. Paul is set for March 21-22 at Xcel Energy Center.
The NCAA tournament begins on March 28 with the culmination of the season staged in St. Louis, Missouri for the 2025 Frozen Four.
About the NCHC’s new schedule model
The conference adopted a new schedule model and rotation which consists of three, three-team pods based on geography with teams guaranteed to play home and away series against the other two teams in their pod every season (eight games). The three-team pods are: Arizona State, Colorado College and Denver; Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota and St. Cloud State; and Miami, Omaha and Western Michigan.
The remaining 16 conference games will be played against the six ‘non-pod’ teams, with four opponents only being played in one series (eight games), home or away, and two ‘non-pod’ opponents being played in both home and away series (eight games). The ‘non-pod’ teams that are played either once or twice in a series will rotate over three seasons.
ASU Record vs. NCHC Teams
Colorado College (6-2-2)
Denver (2-9-1)
Miami (0-1-1)
Minnesota Duluth (0-2-0)
Omaha (4-6-1)
North Dakota (1-0-0)
St. Cloud State (0-3-0)
Western Michigan (0-1-1)
Press Release courtesy of Sun Devil Athletics – Paige Shacklett
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