You’d be forgiven if you didn’t know that UNC has a hockey team.
Carolina Hockey plays on the club level, so rather than actually having any NCAA support or being able to offer out scholarships, players actually pay for the right to take the ice and face off against fellow club hockey teams. They have to rent ice time in rinks across the area, squeezing in time for practice as well as games, and still go to school like any other college student. It’s a real “for the love of the game” system, but that doesn’t make it any less competitive.