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Polls, standings and stat leaders for all 45 NCAA Division I women's programs — the WCHA, ECAC, Hockey East, Atlantic Hockey America and the NEWHA — plus a full box score and line chart inside every score, all week long. No men's scores, no clutter, no 1998 table layouts.

No. 1 Ohio State, 298 pts 45 programs · 5 conferences Defending champ Wisconsin — 9 titles 2027 Frozen Four Duluth, Minn.

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Data snapshot: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 — polls through Oct. 19, standings through Oct. 19, and the complete scoreboard for the week of Oct. 12–18. Sources credited on every table.

Ohio State forward in a black and scarlet jersey carrying the puck up ice against Minnesota at Ridder Arena — **Ohio State 6, Minnesota 5 — Sat., Oct. 17**The No. 1 Buckeyes survive a third-period rally at Ridder Arena. Photo: Ohio State Women's Hockey (@OhioStateWHKY) on X

This Week's Scoreboard

Every women's Division I final from the whole week of Mon., Oct. 12 – Sun., Oct. 18 — 41 games. The women's game doesn't only play on Friday and Saturday: Boston College blanked Merrimack on Wednesday night, and St. Lawrence and New Hampshire split a Thursday–Friday pair in Durham. (No games were played Mon., Tue. or Sun. this week.) The headline weekend still delivered — No. 1 Ohio State and No. 3 Minnesota split a classic at Ridder Arena, Princeton erased a 5–2 third-period deficit to stun UConn in overtime, and Wisconsin hung 12 on Minnesota State. Every score card carries its full box score and line chart — period-by-period scoring, goaltending, team stats, forward lines, defense pairs and dressed goalies. Tap Box score on any game to open it.

All 41 results verified Oct. 20, 2026.

Box scores and line charts for every game verified Oct. 20, 2026. Goal totals in parentheses are the scorer's season total after the goal. Line charts list skaters in the order published for each game — forwards grouped by line, defensemen by pairing.

The Polls

Ohio State holds No. 1 in both polls after splitting at Minnesota, but the gap is closing: Minnesota jumped Wisconsin for No. 2 in the Coaches Poll, Northeastern rocketed from No. 6 to No. 4 after routing Quinnipiac, and unbeaten Colgate (6–0–0) keeps climbing. The Coaches Poll is voted on by 20 coaches and media members; USA Hockey's poll is released Tuesdays.

Rk	Team	Record	Points		Last wk	Move

Others receiving votes: Boston College 9, Syracuse 6, Mercyhurst 4, Minnesota State 4, Harvard 3, St. Thomas 3.

Coaches Poll, Week 6 (released Mon., Oct. 19, 2026; 20 voters). Points shown with first-place votes in parentheses. Table reproduced via Sports Illustrated's Puck Drop and corroborated by Syracuse and Penn State athletics releases.

Rk	Team	Record	Points		Last wk	Move

Others receiving votes: Vermont 20, St. Thomas 13, Harvard 7, Syracuse 7, Mercyhurst 6. The ECAC and WCHA each placed six teams in this poll; Hockey East two, Atlantic Hockey America one.

USA Hockey Women's College Hockey Poll, Week 5 (Tue., Oct. 13, 2026), from the official USA Hockey release (PDF). The Week 6 poll was due out Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. ET and had not been published when this page was compiled.

Team	Week 4 · Oct. 5	Week 5 · Oct. 12	Week 6 · Oct. 19	Trend

Coaches poll, Weeks 4–6. Sources: Sports Illustrated Puck Drop (Week 4), RinkHive poll breakdown (Week 5), SI Puck Drop (Week 6).

Standings

Conference standings through games of Oct. 17–19, 2026. Points system: 3 for a regulation win, 2 for an overtime/shootout win, 1 for an overtime/shootout loss. ECAC conference play has not started yet, so ECAC teams are listed by overall record.

Stat Leaders

The 2026–27 race is six weekends old, so we show both: the early-season leaders making noise right now, and the complete final leaderboards from 2025–26 — the most recent full season, and the standard this year's stars are chasing.

Team totals — 2026–27	Goals	Power-play goals
Wisconsin	44	10
Clarkson	33	—
Minnesota	29	—
Ohio State	29	9
Quinnipiac	28	—

Team totals from NCAA.com statistics, read Oct. 20, 2026. Early player leaders are dated snapshots from school and conference releases (each card shows its date) — no single official live player leaderboard was available at publish time.

Player	School	Class	GP	G	A	Pts	Pts/G

Final 2025–26 totals via Elite Prospects (NCAA women), cross-checked with College Hockey Inc. — Lacey Eden's 77 points won the national scoring title. Goals leader: Kahlen Lamarche, 42. Assists leader: Eden, 48. Points-per-game leader: Abbey Murphy, 2.13.

Goaltender	School	GP	Record	GAA	Save %	Shutouts

Final 2025–26 totals via Elite Prospects and College Hockey Inc. Best goals-against average: Ava McNaughton, 1.35. Most shutouts: Katie DeSa, 12 — the national leader, including 36 saves against UConn in the NCAA regional final.

Storylines & The Road to Duluth

The 2027 Frozen Four is set for AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minnesota — semifinals Sunday, March 21 and the championship Tuesday, March 23, 2027, moved by the NCAA so all three games air on ESPN's linear channels. Here's the season in brief.

Championship Pedigree

Four straight finals: Badgers vs. Buckeyes

2026Wisconsin 3, Ohio State 2 — Pegula Ice Arena, University Park, Pa. Claire Enright scored the winner with 6:18 left; Ava McNaughton's 34 saves earned Most Outstanding Player. Wisconsin's ninth title, most all-time, and the first repeat since Clarkson 2017–18.

2025Wisconsin 4, Ohio State 3 (OT) — Ridder Arena, Minneapolis. Kirsten Simms tied it on a penalty shot with 18.9 seconds left in regulation, then won it 2:49 into overtime.

2024Ohio State 1, Wisconsin 0 — Durham, N.H. Freshman Joy Dunne scored the only goal with 7:12 remaining; Raygan Kirk's 26-save shutout took Frozen Four MOP honors.

Wisconsin and Ohio State have accounted for every national title since 2018 — and met as No. 1 vs. No. 2 in 17 straight meetings coming into this season.

Patty Kazmaier Award

A wide-open race for the first time in years

The 2026 Kazmaier went to Wisconsin defender Caroline Harvey — just the third defender ever to win it, and the reigning Olympic tournament MVP. Finalists Tessa Janecke (Penn State) and Abbey Murphy (Minnesota) were her U.S. Olympic teammates.

Harvey, Janecke, Murphy and 2025 winner Casey O'Brien (Wisconsin) have all graduated into the PWHL pipeline. The early 2026–27 favorites: Ohio State's Joy Dunne and Hilda Svensson, Quinnipiac sniper Kahlen Lamarche (42 goals last season), and Wisconsin's Cassie Hall.

Coaching Carousel

New eras at Minnesota, Providence, Merrimack, Syracuse

Minnesota: Greg "Boom" May was promoted after Brad Frost was fired in March 2026, ending a 19-season run with four national titles. May's Gophers beat No. 1 Ohio State in his first month.
Providence: Nicole Norton steps up from associate head coach after Matt Kelley's late resignation.
Merrimack: Courtney Kennedy, the former U.S. U18 head coach, takes on Hockey East's toughest rebuild.
Syracuse: Veteran Brian Idalski is the Orange's new head coach.

Freshmen to Watch

The class of 2030 arrived loud

Nela Lopušanová, Wisconsin (Slovakia) — WCHA Rookie of the Week Oct. 5; 1G–3A against Minnesota State on Friday.
Rosalie Tremblay, Wisconsin (Canada) — four goals and five points in her first game back from national-team camp.
Adrianna Milani, Minnesota — scored 14 seconds into the upset of No. 1 Ohio State and finished with 2G–2A.
Chloe Brinson, Princeton — her first collegiate goal was the OT winner against No. 8 UConn.
Rowan Houweling, G, Ohio State — beat Wisconsin twice and made a career-high 31 saves at Minnesota.
Alexis Ehrman, G, St. Cloud State — the nation's early save-percentage leader at .972 (as of Oct. 11).

How March Works

Eleven teams, one NPI

The NCAA tournament takes 11 teams: the five conference tournament champions earn automatic bids, and six at-large teams are picked using the NCAA Power Index (NPI), which replaced the old PairWise. The top four seeds host regionals (March 11–14, 2027), and the four winners advance to Duluth.

Last year's field: auto-bids Penn State, Quinnipiac, UConn, Franklin Pierce (its first-ever appearance) and Ohio State, plus Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth, Northeastern, Princeton, Wisconsin and Yale.

Around the Rinks

Surges, streaks and a second-year program

St. Cloud State has charged from unranked into the top 10 behind Alice Sauriol and a freshman wall in net.
Assumption is a perfect 6–0 in NEWHA play — the conference's early story.
Delaware, the 45th D1 program and the first in its state, is in year two under Allison Coomey after a 17-freshman debut roster.
November wrinkle: the IIHF Women's Worlds in Denmark (Nov. 6–16) will pull stars like Ève Gascon and Caitlin Kraemer out of lineups mid-season.
Ice Breaker: the 2026 Women's Ice Breaker Tournament runs Oct. 23–24 at Boston University, with Minnesota State, Yale and Robert Morris.

All 45 Programs

Every women's Division I program for 2026–27, by conference — with last season's regular-season champions noted. No membership changes for 2026–27; Delaware (added 2025–26) remains the newest program in the country.

Membership verified against conference standings and conference sites, Oct. 2026. 2025–26 regular-season champions per College Hockey Inc.

Commitment Tracker

Every women's Division I commitment in the Women's College Hockey recruiting tracker — the classes arriving in 2027–28 and 2028–29, school by school across all five conferences. Arrival season is an estimate, based mostly on birth year unless a school has announced its incoming class. Players listed as decommitted are not shown. Updated Oct. 20, 2026.

Latest Commitments

The 20 most recent additions to the tracker, newest first.

Commitments tracked by Women's College Hockey, updated Oct. 20, 2026. Position, arrival season and commit date are shown for each player.

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