The New York Collegiate Hockey Association was an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Second Division. The league was created in 1977 between 6 then-existing SUNYAC schools as well as Buffalo and Elmira.

History

With the NCAA instituting a Division II Championship beginning with the 1977–78 season 8 upstate New York schools formed the NYCHA to have a better chance at securing one of the bids. So as to not lose those member schools, ECAC 2 began holding two separate conference tournaments the same year, ( East and West), allowing those 6 teams to compete with other established division II schools for an NCAA bid.

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left the conference in 1981 and was replaced by RIT. The Conference added

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over each of the succeeding two seasons but by 1986 the effort to keep the conference as a separate entity stopped and the NYCHA was dissolved. For the duration of the conference all teams played one another twice during the season in conference games.

Member schools

# enrollment in 2018
† as of 2018

Membership timeline

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(1977–1981) bar:2 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text: Brockport State (1977–1986) bar:3 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text: Buffalo (1977–1986) bar:4 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:

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(1977–1986) bar:5 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text: Elmira (1977–1986) bar:6 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text: Geneseo State (1977–1986) bar:7 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:

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(1977–1986) bar:8 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text: Potsdam State (1977–1986) bar:9 color:Full from:08/01/1981 till:05/01/1986 text: RIT (1981–1986) bar:10 color:Full from:08/01/1982 till:05/01/1986 text:

(1982–1986) bar:11 color:Full from:08/01/1983 till:05/01/1986 text:

(1983–1986) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:1978

References

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History

Member schools

Membership timeline

See also

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