The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference.
WCHA member teams have won a record 36 men's NCAA hockey championships, including the most recent in 2011 by the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs. A WCHA-member team has also finished as the national runner-up a total of 28 times.
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