Miami University hockey announced its schedule for the 2025-26 season on April 28.
Miami’s season begins on Oct. 3 and 4, when it takes on the Ferris State University Bulldogs at home in the first of three non-conference series. Max Dukovac, who played his first three collegiate seasons with the RedHawks, will return to Goggin Ice Center for the first time as a Bulldog.
The second and third series will be on the road against familiar opponents from 2024-25: the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers and the Lindenwood University Lions.
The RedHawks begin conference play against the Arizona State University Sun Devils on Halloween weekend. Former Miami forward and the RedHawks’ leading scorer last season, John Waldron, will be returning to Oxford after transferring to Tempe early in the portal window this offseason.
Following the Arizona State series, Miami’s schedule moves to a bye week before the second weekend of November. Miami will head up to Kalamazoo to take on the defending national champion Western Michigan University Broncos before returning home to face the St. Cloud State University Huskies.
Miami then embarks on a journey overseas to participate in the Friendship Four tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The RedHawks will take on the Sacred Heart University Pioneers, the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers and the Union College Garnet Chargers in games on Nov. 28 and 29 competing for the Belpot Trophy.
There’s no rest for the RedHawks following their international journey, though. As the second-half of the regular season begins, Miami travels to the Denver University Pioneers on Dec. 5-6 before returning home to take on the Colorado College Tigers, whom Miami did not play at home in 2024-25.
The RedHawks hit their second bye week before playing in another mid-season tournament, this one taking place in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Great Lakes Invitational is another four-team tournament that will involve Miami along with Ferris State, Michigan State University and Michigan Tech University.
The 2025-26 season will be Miami’s first time playing in the tournament.
To begin 2026, the RedHawks will take on Arizona State for the first time as visitors at Mullett Arena. Then, the University of Omaha-Nebraska Mavericks head to Oxford for the first of two series between the squads in 2026.
A third bye week for the Red and White makes way for five-straight weekends that alternate between home and away. Miami will play St. Cloud on the road and Western Michigan at home, the second series against both teams during the season.
The team’s first and only series against the University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks will take place at Ralph Engelstad Arena on Feb. 13 and 14 before first-year netminder Ethan Dahlmeir returns to Oxford with the University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs the following weekend.
Miami closes out the regular season against Omaha on Feb. 27 and 28 before beginning NCHC tournament play on March 6, with the top four seeds in the conference hosting the best-of-three series, the semi-final and the final.
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