Atlantic Hockey champions 2024!

Fasten your seat belts, RIT—the men’s hockey team is on the road to the Frozen Four.

The Tigers captured the Atlantic Hockey Championship with a 5-2 victory over American International College in front of a standing-room-only crowd Saturday at the Gene Polisseni Center. The victory is RIT’s fourth Atlantic Hockey postseason title, with the others occurring in 2010, 2015, and 2016.

“The thing I can say about this team, probably more than other teams I've coached, is the contributions came from everyone,” RIT Head Coach Wayne Wilson told reporters in the post-game news conference. “Every night it was someone different, whether it came from our captains and guys you expect production from, or freshmen, our goaltending, our role players, and special teams.”

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NCAA

The road to the Frozen Four.

RIT now enters the NCAA Tournament field of 16 teams vying for the national crown. First up: perennial hockey powerhouse Boston University. The Tigers face off against the Terriers in the regional being hosted in Sioux Falls, S.D. The puck drops at 5 p.m. Thursday in a game that will be televised on ESPNU and ESPN+.

The tournament concludes April 11 and 13 at the Men's Ice Hockey Frozen Four in St. Paul, Minn. The Terriers are no stranger to the NCAA Tournament (39 appearances), nor Frozen Fours (23, including last season). They’ve won five national championships.

But RIT has a history of performing well as the underdog. In 2010, the Tigers shocked the college hockey world by earning a trip to the prestigious Frozen Four. Prior to moving up to Division I competition in 2005, the Tigers won the national crown at the Division II level in 1983 and Division III level in 1985.

RIT’s hockey history is on the mind of RIT forward Carter Wilkie, a third-year biomedical sciences major from Calgary, Alberta. The Tigers have built a winning tradition since the program’s inception in 1962.

“On our walls (in the Gene Polisseni Center), you see the pictures of people who have won championships hosting the trophy,” said Wilkie. “It's a constant reminder that this stuff is hard. To create a memory like that, you're going to see a guy 30 years down the line and we'll remember this the rest of our lives.”

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