[3] Shortly thereafter, two additional teams (Neumann and Wilkes) announced that they would leave the UCHC and join MAC as affiliate members.
[7] Similarly, Johnson & Wales had announced their plan to leave NEHC and join CCC as a full member for the 2024–25 season almost two years earlier.
Afterwards, in a similar situation to what happened to Finlandia University two years earlier, Beloit College announced that they would be adding men's and women's ice hockey for 2025 and invited all staff and players from Northland to transfer over.
The NCAA committee began using the NPI for Division III ice hockey in 2024–25, having previously used a similar metric called the PairWise Rankings (PWR).
The NCAA Percentage Index is the tool used to select teams for the national collegiate ice hockey tournament for Men's and Women's Division III.