Men's Hockey announces 2024-25 schedule

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The RIT Men's Hockey team announced the 2024-25 schedule, Friday.
 
The Tigers have 35 total games scheduled for the coming season, including 16 dates at the Gene Polisseni Center as well as the annual Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend contest at Blue Cross Arena in downtown Rochester opposite Bowling Green.
 
"The coming year promises to be another great season, including plenty of opportunities for our fans to come out and support us," said 26th-year Head Coach Wayne Wilson. "We look forward to playing a strong slate of opponents as we look to defend our Atlantic Hockey Championship and get back to the NCAA Tournament for the second-straight year."
 
RIT opens the 62nd season in program history with back-to-back road games at ECAC Hockey members St. Lawrence (Oct. 5) and Clarkson (Oct. 6), before kicking off Atlantic Hockey America play with two games at Mercyhurst (Oct. 11-12).
 
The Tigers will entertain Bowling Green (Oct. 19) in the 17th-annual Brick City game before hosting Colgate (Oct. 25-26) for a pair of games at the Gene Polisseni Center.
 
RIT will then play seven-consecutive Atlantic Hockey contests, starting with a Wednesday night trip to Niagara (Oct. 30) before two games at Bentley (Nov. 8-9). Army will pay a visit (Nov. 15-16) before the Tigers hit the road for two games at Sacred Heart (Nov. 22-23).
 
The Tigers will play two games at New Hampshire (Nov. 29-30) before hosting three-straight home games opposite AHA foes Canisius (Dec. 3) and Robert Morris (Dec. 6-7).
 
RIT will close the year with a trip to Bowling Green (Dec. 29) before starting the New Year hosting Guelph (Ont.) for an exhibition game (Jan. 4).
 
The Tigers will host back-to-back road doubleheaders at Canisius (Jan. 10-11) and Robert Morris (Jan. 17-18), before finishing the regular season with home doubleheaders in four of the final five weekends of the regular season, starting with two games opposite Niagara (Jan. 24-25) at the GPC.
 
After a trip to Air Force (Jan. 31-Feb. 1), RIT will host Holy Cross (Feb. 7-8), AIC (Feb. 14-15) and Mercyhurst (Feb. 21-22) with its sights set on a third-consecutive Bob DeGregorio Trophy, awarded to the regular-season AHA champion.
 
The Atlantic Hockey postseason will start with first-round games on Saturday, Mar. 1, followed by best-of-three quarterfinal (Mar. 8-10) and semifinal (Mar. 15-17) series and the AHA Championship game (Mar. 22). All games will be played at the rink of the higher-seed.
 
RIT finished the 2023-24 campaign with a 27-11-2 record, including an 18-7-1 AHA mark for its second-consecutive Robert DeGregorio Trophy. The Tigers defeated AIC, 5-2, in the Atlantic Hockey Championship game to clinch its fourth Jack Riley Trophy and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in program history. RIT's run ended in the NCAA Regional Semifinals with a 5-2 setback to second-seeded Boston University in a game played in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 

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