By Nate LaPoint
Head Equipment Manager, University of Wisconsin

Well just like everyone else, this has been one crazy year in the NCAA. We had a number of teams that did not play this year but a majority of us got a good amount of in-conference only games.

We would like to congratulate Atlantic Hockey champs American International, B1G champs, Wisconsin, ECAC champs, Quinnipiac, NCHC champs, North Dakota, WCHA champs, Minnesota State, and Hockey East champs, Boston College on wining regular season conference titles.  Regular season titles are a hard thing to win so this is a huge accomplishment to these teams. 

The NCAA tournament is up next with regional sites in Loveland Colorado, Fargo North Dakota, Bridgeport Connecticut, and Albany New York. The Frozen Four this year is in Pittsburg at PPG Paints arena. A big thanks to all the host schools as well these AHL, USHL, and NHL buildings.

This year’s success couldn’t have happened without the support of vendors, custodial and facility staff, as well as all of us. Looking forward to catching up with everyone on some Zoom calls this summer.  

Stay safe and let’s hope we get back to some sort of normal next season.