In the NCAA winter sports realm, men's and women's basketball tend to get all the attention. However, tucked in oft-forgotten pockets of the country—Minnesota, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, non-Boston parts of New England—sits the best-kept secret in college sports.
No one who has seen men's and women's college hockey played at the highest level will ever forget it. Like baseball and softball at warm-weather schools, hockey summons a college's truest self. Division II schools like Ferris State and Lake Superior State hobnob with Michigan and Ohio State. Bowling Green and Maine and RPI and Union can win national titles.
