That might not technically be all that Penn State hosts either.
RMU last hosted the frozen four in 2013 when Yale University won the championship.
The Frozen Four returns to Boston in 2022. (The men's regionals are routinely held at off-campus facilities.) The Lehigh Valley rink is almost a three-hour drive from Pegula Ice Arena, but that's still considerably closer than the last Midwest Regional that was held in Cincinnati (seven-hour drive).
I anticipate Detroit will be viewed as a destination for future NCAA and other major sporting events in the years ahead.
As was announced earlier, Little Caesars Arena also will host first- and second-round NCAA men's basketball tournament games on March 16 and 18, 2018.
Brexit plans unaffected by election: European Union
So it potentially means yet more instability for a region expected to be the worst hit in the United Kingdom from a Brexit. But European Council President Donald Tusk's spokesman said the 27 other EU states would forge ahead as planned.
Robert Morris University will host the NCAA Frozen Four in 2021, according to a release from the university.
ME has been shut out in its bid to host NCAA men's hockey tournament games at Portland's Cross Insurance Arena in 2019. "We have enjoyed so much success over the years with great players, coaches, administrators and outstanding hockey fans and supporters from Erie".
Michigan State and the Detroit Sports Commissions will be the hosts for the championships on April 9-11, 2020. In 2019, Manchester, New Hamphsire, and Providence, Rhode Island, will host men's hockey regionals.
The NCAA men's and women's cross country mid-Atlantic regional will return to the Penn State Golf Courses on November 9, 2018, and November 13, 2020. The 2018 Regionals will be held the weekend of March 23-25 and the 2019 Regionals will take place March 29-31.
PPL Center, home of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, has already hosted a number of big-name concerts and high-profile events, like the 2017 AHL All-Star Classic. The 2018 and 2021 National Collegiate Fencing Championships will also be at Penn State.
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