The difference of one week in Huntsville, Ala., could not have been more stark.
The University of Alabama-Huntsville, which plays alongside Bowling Green in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, announced it would cut the program on May 22, but on Friday — just seven days later — the fund-raising rush to save the team appears to have been successful.
Administration at UAH gave a group of alumni, boosters, and well-wishers five business days to raise $750,000 to continue operations through the 2020-21 season, and the efforts matched the goal by the close of business on Friday.
Alumnus Sheldon Wolitski told AL.