UNION LAKE, Mich. -- The American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) released the sixteenth and final national computer rankings of the Men's Division 1 hockey season today, in preparation for the National Championship Tournament next month. The ranking sets the 24-team field that will compete in St. Louis, Missouri for the Murdoch Cup in March.

"This ranking marks the deadline for choosing the 24 participating teams for the 2024 ACHA Men's Division I National Championships presented by FloHockey.  Sixteen teams in the ranking will return after participating in Nationals last season. Joining those schools will be eight teams that did not participate a year ago, including five teams making their inaugural appearance.

The ACHA uses two computer rankings generated by USHSHO.com, Ranking A (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 7) and Ranking B (Wins with Maximum Goal Differential of 1), to come up with an average of the two rankings. The ACHA will then use the list generated from the average for its weekly ranking. Ties will be broken using the higher ranked team from Ranking B until the Top 25 teams are listed. All games that go to overtime will be scored as ties in the computer ranking.

The 2024 ACHA Men's Division I National Championships, presented by FloHockey, will be hosted March 7-12 for the second time at the Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Missouri. This will be the first year of the 24-team format."

The Bulldogs collect their fourteenth consecutive bid to the National Championship Tournament. Since the team's inception in 2007, the Adrian College Men's ACHA Division 1 hockey team has made it to the final-four of the national tournament five times and have won it twice (2018, 2021).

The Men's Division 1 portion of the ACHA National Championships operates under a single-elimination format. A bracket and schedule information for the tournament can be found at this link. All tournament games will be streamed on FloHockey, while tickets, hotel accommodations, and nationals merchandise can be found here.

For more information on the ACHA National Championship tournament, visit the ACHA website and follow the Adrian Men's ACHA Division 1 Hockey team's page on the Adrian College Athletics website. Stay tuned for an Adrian College preview of the MD1 National Championships, set to release during the week of the tournament.

No. 2 Adrian will take on No. 18 Indiana Tech this Friday in a pre-nationals tune-up game in Fort Wayne. Puck drops at 2:30 PM.