COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The National Collegiate Hockey Conference has invited St. Cloud State and Western Michigan to join the new Division I men’s hockey conference when it starts play in 2013-14.
St. Cloud State is a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and Western Michigan is in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.
They would join founding members Colorado College, University of Denver, Miami University, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha and North Dakota in the NCHC.
St. Cloud State men’s hockey spokesman Tom Nelson says the school will announce its decision Thursday.
The league, which was born in response to the Big Ten’s fledgling hockey league taking Minnesota and Wisconsin from the WCHA, is conducting a national search for its first commissioner.
