By Bob Cunningham ’18

The Bowling Green State University hockey team will play in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) starting in the 2021-22 season.

BGSU will join six other Div. I universities that first announced in June 2019 they would explore the formation of a new hockey conference. That league will be re-established and branded as the storied Central Collegiate Hockey Association, which disbanded after the 2012-13 season.

Bemidji State University, Ferris State University, Lake Superior State University, Michigan Technological University, Minnesota State University-Mankato and Northern Michigan University also will play in the new league.

The Falcons are the only team to have played every year in the original CCHA from its inception in 1971.