25. Penn State hockey, while not making the NCAA tournament, continues to be a major success story and is certainly helping other schools at least think about bringing hockey to their school. In 2013-14, Penn State said it lost about $6 million on athletics and only three of the university’s 31 sports made money: football ($37 million), basketball ($5 million) and hockey ($1 million). Penn State has sold out 29 of its 31 home hockey games. Sabres owner Terry Pegula financed the arena and the scholarships and that’s what other schools want in hatching a program.

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