 The season began in September 2019 and will end with the 2020 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament's championship game at Agganis Arena in Boston on March 22, 2020.The most significant change from the 2018–19 season was the recognition of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) as an official NCAA conference.The NEWHA was founded in 2017 as a scheduling alliance by the six schools that then competed as National Collegiate independents—full Division I members Holy Cross and Sacred Heart, plus Division II members Franklin Pierce, Post, Saint Anselm, and Saint Michael's.