The move to NCAA Division I status allowed the team to join other Husky athletic programs . In 1998 they joined the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference , after previously playing for 38 years in the Division III ECAC East . At the time , head coach Bruce Marshall was in his tenth season at the position . In its 2nd season in the 2000 MAAC Men 's Ice Hockey Tournament , Uconn beat Iona 6-1 to win its 1st league championship . However , due to a 2-year probationary period placed on the MAAC for an automatic bid to the NCAA Ice Hockey championship by the league champion , UConn was unable to participate in the NCAA tournament that year . It has been the only championship Uconn would earn since moving to Division I ( as of May , 2016 ) . But when the athletic department was forced to remove all athletic scholarships from the sport in order to comply with Title IX , and the Huskies consistently finished in the bottom few spots of the national computer rankings before the most recent season . In 2003 , the MAAC formed a new league called Atlantic Hockey
2000 MAAC Men 's Ice Hockey Tournament
2000 MAAC Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
UConn Huskies men's ice hockey