BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The Western Collegiate Hockey Association unveiled its composite league schedule for the 2023-24 season, a slate featuring 112 games as each program competes in a 28-game WCHA campaign this season.
 
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Composite Schedule
 
The 2023-24 composite schedule outlines weekend dates and opponents for each of the league’s eight member institutions. Exact game days and times of each two-game series will be determined by the host institution, with online schedule pages being updated accordingly. Full schedules including nonconference matchups will be released at a later date.
 
The highly anticipated 25th season of the top league in women’s college hockey culminates with the eight-team 2024 Kwik Trip WCHA Final Faceoff, with the league’s four quarterfinal winners advancing to the postseason tournament on March 8-9.
 
The WCHA league schedule features 28 games in 2023-24 as all eight programs play in two, two-game series (one home, one away) against each of the other seven member institutions. While the weekends are assigned, teams may opt to play Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, or for an agreed upon home-and-home series.
 
With the weekend of Oct. 6-7 reserved for nonconference competition, the chase for the Julianne Bye Cup opens on the weekend of Oct. 13-14 as Minnesota State travels to defending National Champion Wisconsin for the first game of the WCHA season on Thursday, Oct. 12. Defending WCHA Tournament Champion Minnesota plays at St. Thomas the same weekend, while WCHA Regular Season Champion Ohio State travels to Minnesota Duluth, and St. Cloud State hosts Bemidji State in the first weekend of league play.
 
The annual Border Battle between WCHA heavyweights Minnesota and Wisconsin will be contested in Minneapolis Dec. 8-9 and on Feb. 16-17 in Madison. Another noteworthy series takes place on the final weekend of the regular season as Ohio State travels to Madison on Feb. 23-24 for a rematch of the 2023 National Championship. The final weekend of the regular season also includes Minnesota Duluth at Minnesota, St. Cloud State at Bemidji State, and Minnesota State and St. Thomas opting for a home-and-home series.
 
A balanced schedule, 14 weekends will see at least one WCHA series played, while 13 feature a full allotment of four league series in action.
 
2024 WCHA Postseason Tournament
All eight league teams advance to the 2024 WCHA Postseason Tournament, with seeding set by their finish in the WCHA standings. The top four seeds each host a best-of-three quarterfinal series the weekend of March 1-3, with the four winners advancing to meet at the 2024 Kwik Trip WCHA Final Faceoff on March 8-9 at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis.
 
For more information on the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, follow the league on Twitter and Instagram @WCHA_WHockey, and online at wcha.com.