2023 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament

2023 NCAA National Collegiate Women's
ice hockey tournament
	2023 Women's Frozen Four logo
Teams	11
Finals site	AMSOIL Arena; Duluth, Minnesota;
Champions	Wisconsin Badgers (7th title)
Runner-up	Ohio State Buckeyes (2nd title game)
Semifinalists	Northeastern Huskies (3rd Frozen Four); Minnesota Golden Gophers (14th Frozen Four);
Winning coach	Mark Johnson (7th title)
MOP	Cami Kronish (Wisconsin)
Attendance	17,750, 3,940 for Championship Game
	← 2022 ; NCAA women's ice hockey tournaments; 2024 →;

The 2023 NCAA National Collegiate women's ice hockey tournament was a single-elimination tournament by eleven schools to determine the national champion of women's NCAA Division I college ice hockey. This is the second year the tournament features an expanded field of 11 teams.^[1] The first round and quarterfinals were played on the campuses of seeded teams on March 9 and 11, 2023, while the Frozen Four was played on March 17 and 19, 2023 at AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minnesota.^[2] The Wisconsin Badgers defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes 1–0 to win their 7th national championship.

Qualifying teams

Ohio State

Minnesota

Colgate

Yale

Northeastern

Quinnipiac

Penn State

Wisconsin

LIU

Minnesota Duluth

Clarkson

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2023 Qualifying Teams
WCHA, ECAC, Hockey East, CHA, NEWHA

In the second year under this qualification format, the winners of all five Division I conference tournaments received automatic berths to the NCAA tournament. This is the first year the NEWHA received an automatic bid. The other six teams were selected at-large. The top five teams are then seeded.^[3]

Seed	School	Conference	Record	Berth type	Appearance	Last bid
1	Ohio State	WCHA	31–5–2	At-large bid	5th	2022
2	Minnesota	WCHA	29–5–3	Tournament champion	20th	2022
3	Colgate	ECAC	32–5–2	Tournament champion	4th	2022
4	Yale	ECAC	28–3–1	At-large bid	2nd	2022
5	Northeastern	Hockey East	33–2–1	Tournament champion	7th	2022
	Quinnipiac	ECAC	29–9–0	At-large bid	4th	2022
	Penn State	CHA	27–8–2	Tournament champion	1st	Never
	Wisconsin	WCHA	25–10–2	At-large bid	17th	2022
	LIU	NEWHA	20–13–3	Tournament champion	1st	Never
	Minnesota Duluth	WCHA	25–9–3	At-large bid	14th	2022
	Clarkson	ECAC	29–10–2	At-large bid	11th	2022

Bids by state

Bids	State(s)	Schools
3	New York	Clarkson, Colgate, LIU
2	Connecticut	Quinnipiac, Yale
2	Minnesota	Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth
1	Massachusetts	Northeastern
	Ohio	Ohio State
	Pennsylvania	Penn State
	Wisconsin	Wisconsin

Bracket

First Round March 9^[4]			National Quarterfinals March 11			National Semifinals March 17			National Championship March 19

			8	Quinnipiac	2
10	Penn State	2	1	Ohio State	5
8	Quinnipiac	3***				1	Ohio State	3
						5	Northeastern	0
			5	Northeastern	4
			4	Yale	1
									1	Ohio State	0
									6	Wisconsin	1
			7	Minnesota Duluth	0
9	Clarkson	0	2	Minnesota	3
7	Minnesota Duluth	2				2	Minnesota	2
						6	Wisconsin	3*
			6	Wisconsin	4
11	LIU	1	3	Colgate	2
6	Wisconsin	9

Note: each * denotes one overtime period

Results

First Round

Penn State vs. Quinnipiac

March 9
6:01 pm

Penn State

2–3 3OT
(0–1, 2–0, 0–1, 0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Quinnipiac

Ohio State University Ice Rink
Attendance: 402

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Josie Bothun

Goalies

Logan Angers

Referees:
Robert Ludwig
Michael Kaehler
Linesmen:
Aaron Neville
Glendon Seal

	0–1	4:57 – Maloney
Zanon – (Wallin) – 33:31	1–1
Wallin – (Correia, MacKay) – pp – 35:48	2–1
	2–2	53:16 – Reilly – (Cooper, Mobley)
	2–3	109:37 – Chantler – (Mobley, Maloney)

6 min

Penalties

4 min

52

Shots

58

LIU vs. Wisconsin

March 9
6:00 pm

LIU

1–9
(0–3, 1–3, 0–3)

Wisconsin

Class of 1965 Arena
Attendance: 227

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Tindra Holm

Goalies

Cami Kronish

Referees:
Katie Guay
Laura White
Linesmen:
Michael Roberts
Colby Munson

	0–1	13:17 – Harvey – (Compher, Curl)
	0–2	16:24 – Curl – (Compher, Jungels)
	0–3	19:48 – Simms – (Eden)
Rourke – (Culp) – 23:08	1–3
	1–4	28:13 – pp – Wheeler – (Harvey, Shirley)
	1–5	35:46 – O'Brien – (Wheeler, Shirley)
	1–6	38:47 – pp – Edwards – (Curl, Eden)
	1–7	44:23 – Edwards – (Curl, O'Brien)
	1–8	46:25 – pp – Jungels – (Harvey, Simms)
	1–9	48:05 – Compher – (Edwards, Curl)

6 min

Penalties

2 min

7

Shots

59

Clarkson vs. Minnesota Duluth

March 10
6:00 pm

Clarkson

0–2
(0–1, 0–0, 0–1)

Minnesota Duluth

Ridder Arena
Attendance: 342

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Michelle Pasiechnyk

Goalies

Emma Söderberg

Referees:
Kelly Cooke
Chelsea Rapin
Linesmen:
Kaitlin Hayes
Laura Schmidlein

	0–1	5:59 – Stewart – (Krause, Hanley)
	0–2	43:23 – pp – Stewart – (Anderson, Fuhrman)

24 min

Penalties

2 min

16

Shots

27

Quarterfinals

Wisconsin vs. (3) Colgate

March 11
3:00 pm

Wisconsin

4–2
(1–0, 1–1, 2–1)

Colgate

Class of 1965 Arena
Attendance: 1,349

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Cami Kronish

Goalies

Hannah Murphy

Referees:
Katie Guay
Laura White
Linesmen:
Michael Roberts
Coby Munson

LaMantia (Kronish) – 7:01	1–0
	1–1	20:32 – Simpson (Brick, Gates)
O'Brien (Wheeler, Curl) – pp – 35:31	2–1
Jungels (O'Brien) – 51:57	3–1
Edwards en – 58:16	4–1
	4–2	59:50.3 – Kaltounková (Serdachny, Stewart)

10 min

Penalties

6 min

35

Shots

15

Minnesota Duluth vs. (2) Minnesota

March 11
2:00

Minnesota Duluth

0–3
(0–0, 0–1, 0–2)

Minnesota

Ridder Arena
Attendance: 2,328

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Emma Söderberg

Goalies

Skylar Vetter

Referees:
Kelly Cooke
Chelsea Rapin
Linesmen:
Kaitlin Hayes
Laura Schmidlein

	0–1	30:39 – Wethington
	0–2	43:22 – Murphy (Oden, Zumwinkle)
	0–3	50:18 – Skaja (Wethington)

2 min

Penalties

0 min

30

Shots

30

(5) Northeastern vs. (4) Yale

March 11
3:00 pm

Northeastern

4–1
(0–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Yale

Ingalls Rink
Attendance: 1,544

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Gwyneth Philips

Goalies

Pia Dukaric

Referees:
William Jacques
Todd Plouffe
Linesmen:
Joshua Berenson
James Rogowski

Shannon (Irving) – 24:22	1–0
Aurard – (Carter, Müller) – 2:27	2–0
Müller – (Aurard, Murphy) – 9:37	3–0
	3–1	55:22 – Bargman (Ray, Hartje)
Murphy – sh, en – 19:20.6	4–1

4 min

Penalties

2 min

30

Shots

39

Quinnipiac vs. (1) Ohio State

March 11
5:01 pm

Quinnipiac

2–5
(1–0, 0–2, 1–3)

Ohio State

Ohio State University Ice Rink
Attendance: 750

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Logan Angers

Goalies

Amanda Thiele

Referees:
Robert Ludwig
Michael Kaehler
Linesmen:
Aaron Neville
Glendon Seal

Cooper (Mobley, Samoskevich) – pp – 18:58	1–0
	1–1	32:12 – pp – Rosenthal
	1–2	36:00 – Bernard
	1–3	48:08 – Peschel (Maltais, Levis)
	1–4	54:45 – pp – Jaques (Webster, Gardiner)
Samoskevich (Cooper, Steigauf) – 56:24	2–4
	2–5	59:31.2 – en – Jaques – (Gardiner)

6 min

Penalties

4 min

23

Shots

44

Semifinals

(5) Northeastern vs. (1) Ohio State

March 17
2:30 pm

Northeastern

0–3
(0–1, 0–2, 0–0)

Ohio State

AMSOIL Arena
Attendance: 3,443

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Gwyneth Philips

Goalies

Amanda Thiele

Referees:
Katie Guay
Laura White
Linesmen:
Colby Monsun
Michael Roberts

	0–1	1:16 – Matthews – (Hauswirth)
	0–2	31:18 – Webster – (Gardiner, Rosenthal)
	0–3	38:44 – Hartmetz – (Maltais, Levis)

2 min

Penalties

8 min

15

Shots

53

Wisconsin vs. (2) Minnesota

March 17
6:00 pm

Wisconsin

3–2 OT
(0–1, 0–0, 2–1, 1–0)

Minnesota

AMSOIL Arena
Attendance: 3,425

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Cami Kronish

Goalies

Skylar Vetter

Referees:
Robert Ludwig
Michael Kaehler
Linesmen:
Glendon Seal
Aaron Neville

	0–1	3:23 – Heise (Oden, Boreen)
Edwards (Compher) – 6:32	1–1
Shirley (Wheeler) – 7:25	2–1
	2–2	58:49 – Zumwinkle (Wethington, Heise)
Harvey (Compher, Curl) – 76:47	3–2

6 min

Penalties

4 min

38

Shots

39

Championship

Wisconsin vs. (1) Ohio State

March 19
3:00 pm

Wisconsin

1–0
(1–0, 0–0, 0–0)

Ohio State

AMSOIL Arena
Attendance: 3,940

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Cami Kronish

Goalies

Amanda Thiele

Referees:
Kelly Cooke
Chelsea Rapin
Linesmen:
Laura Schmidlein
Kaitlin Hayes

Simms (Enright) – 13:28

1–0

2 min

Penalties

6 min

22

Shots

31

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

G: Cami Kronish*, Wisconsin
D: Sophie Jaques, Ohio State
D: Caroline Harvey, Wisconsin
F: Laila Edwards, Wisconsin
F: Kirsten Simms, Wisconsin
F: Jesse Compher, Wisconsin

* Most Outstanding Player^[5]

References

^ Haase, Nicole (December 16, 2021). "Division I Women's Hockey: NCAA approves immediate expansion of bracket; 11 teams to compete in 2022 National Championship tournament". USCHO.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
^ "NCAA announces host site selections from 2022-23 to 2025-26". NCAA.com. October 19, 2020. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
^ "The NC women's hockey championship selection process, explained". NCAA.com. February 23, 2023. Archived from the original on March 1, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
^ "2023 NC Women's Ice Hockey Official Bracket". NCAA.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
^ Stewart, Mark (March 20, 2023). "Wisconsin women's hockey blanks Ohio State to win its 7th national title". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved April 5, 2023.

Game references

^ "Penn State Nittany Lions @ Quinnipiac Bobcats". GoBobcats.com. Quinnipiac University. March 9, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Wisconsin Badgers @ LIU Sharks". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 9, 2023. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Clarkson Golden Knights @ Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs". ClarksonAthletics.com. Clarkson University. March 9, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Wisconsin Badgers @ Clarkson Golden Knights". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs @ Minnesota Golden Gophers". GopherSports.com. University of Minnesota Athletics. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 28, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Northeastern Huskies @ Yale Bulldogs". NUHuskies.com. Northeastern University. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Quinnipiac Bobcats @ Ohio State Buckeyes". OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Ohio State University. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Northeastern Huskies @ Ohio State Buckeyes". OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Ohio State University. March 17, 2023. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Wisconsin Badgers @ Minnesota Golden Gophers". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 17, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
^ "Wisconsin Badgers @ Ohio State Buckeyes". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 19, 2023. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[1] Haase, Nicole (December 16, 2021). "Division I Women's Hockey: NCAA approves immediate expansion of bracket; 11 teams to compete in 2022 National Championship tournament". USCHO.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2023.

[2] "NCAA announces host site selections from 2022-23 to 2025-26". NCAA.com. October 19, 2020. Archived from the original on December 3, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2023.

[3] "The NC women's hockey championship selection process, explained". NCAA.com. February 23, 2023. Archived from the original on March 1, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2023.

[4] "2023 NC Women's Ice Hockey Official Bracket". NCAA.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2023. Retrieved February 25, 2023.

[15] Stewart, Mark (March 20, 2023). "Wisconsin women's hockey blanks Ohio State to win its 7th national title". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved April 5, 2023.

[5] "Penn State Nittany Lions @ Quinnipiac Bobcats". GoBobcats.com. Quinnipiac University. March 9, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[6] "Wisconsin Badgers @ LIU Sharks". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 9, 2023. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[7] "Clarkson Golden Knights @ Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs". ClarksonAthletics.com. Clarkson University. March 9, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[8] "Wisconsin Badgers @ Clarkson Golden Knights". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[9] "Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs @ Minnesota Golden Gophers". GopherSports.com. University of Minnesota Athletics. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 28, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[10] "Northeastern Huskies @ Yale Bulldogs". NUHuskies.com. Northeastern University. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[11] "Quinnipiac Bobcats @ Ohio State Buckeyes". OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Ohio State University. March 11, 2023. Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[12] "Northeastern Huskies @ Ohio State Buckeyes". OhioStateBuckeyes.com. Ohio State University. March 17, 2023. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[13] "Wisconsin Badgers @ Minnesota Golden Gophers". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 17, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

[14] "Wisconsin Badgers @ Ohio State Buckeyes". UWBadgers.com. University of Wisconsin–Madison. March 19, 2023. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2025.

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Records and Statistics	All-time team records Appearances Conferences and teams Most Outstanding Player All-Tournament Teams

Qualifying teams

Bids by state

Bracket

Results

First Round

Penn State vs. Quinnipiac

LIU vs. Wisconsin

Clarkson vs. Minnesota Duluth

Quarterfinals

Wisconsin vs. (3) Colgate

Minnesota Duluth vs. (2) Minnesota

(5) Northeastern vs. (4) Yale

Quinnipiac vs. (1) Ohio State

Semifinals

(5) Northeastern vs. (1) Ohio State

Wisconsin vs. (2) Minnesota

Championship

Wisconsin vs. (1) Ohio State

Tournament awards

All-Tournament Team

See also

References

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