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. Plattsburgh State left the conference in 1981 and was replaced by RIT. The Conference added Canisius and Hobart 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 LocationAthletic nicknameEnrollment#ColorsFoundedJoinedLeftSucceeding ConferenceCurrent Conference†Brockport, New YorkGolden Eagles8,275186719771986ECAC WestSUNYACBuffalo, New YorkBulls30,648184619771986ECAC WestDropped ProgramBuffalo, New YorkIce Griffs3,464187019821986ECAC WestAtlantic HockeyCortland, New YorkRed Dragons7,234186819771986ECAC WestSUNYACElmira, New YorkSoaring Eagles1,170185519771986ECAC WestUCHCGeneseo, New YorkKnights5,585187119771986ECAC WestSUNYACGeneva, New YorkStatesmen2,237182219831986ECAC WestNEHCOswego, New YorkLakers8,909186119771986ECAC WestSUNYACPlattsburgh, New YorkCardinals6,358188919771981ECAC 2SUNYACPotsdam, New YorkBears4,325181619771986ECAC WestSUNYACHenrietta, New YorkTigers16,842182919811986ECAC WestAtlantic Hockey # enrollment in 2018† as of 2018

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See also ECAC 2

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