The University of Massachusetts men’s team has never won a conference championship in hockey. Before this season they had just one NCAA tournament appearance in 2007. Twenty-five seasons of division 1 men’s hockey and not a single trophy.
After a 3-0 loss to current NCAA hockey powerhouse University of Minnesota-Duluth, the dream is still out of reach. Even though the loudest part of the crowd was on their side, the Minutemen will have to be happy to be the first team from U-Mass to reach the finals, and try for a title next year.
If you didn’t know better you would have assumed this was a home game for U-Mass, as the chants from the fans and songs from the band began well before warm ups, and the booing of UMD came just as quickly.