1 April

1995: BU nails down its fourth NCAA championship with a convincing 6-2 win over conference rival Maine at the Providence Civic Center, which also was the site of BU’s 1978 national title. The Terriers had played Maine three times previously during the season, losing once and tying twice. But on this day, the result was far different.

Steve Thornton, later voted team MVP, got things going late in the first period scoring from a faceoff to the left of Maine’s Blair Allison. BU stretched the lead to 3-0 on second period goals by Chris O’Sullivan and Captain Jacques Joubert, before Tim Lovell got Maine on the board. The Black Bears cut the lead to one in the first minute of the third period on Trevor Roenick’s power play goal. But BU put the game out of reach with O’Sullivan’s second goal and scores by Mike Sylvia and Bob Lachance. Tom Noble stopped 21 Black Bear shots, while Allison had 33 saves. O’Sullivan, a second team All-American, was chosen the game’s Most Outstanding Player. He was named to the all-tournament team along with Shawn Bates and Kaj Linna.

BU finished the season with ten consecutive wins and 15 victories in its final 16 games.
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30 March

1995: In the NCAA Final Four semifinal in Providence, Terriers erupt for four third period goals to skate past Minnesota, 7-3. Captain Jacques Joubert and Doug Wood scored in the first period. Matt Wright gave BU a 3-2 lead in the second, but the Gophers knotted the game at three. Bob Lachance scored the go-ahead goal in the final period, followed by goals from Chris O'Sullivan, Shawn Bates and Mike Sylvia. Derek Herlofsky, a Minnesota native, turned asside 30 Gopher shots.

1990: BU's remarkable post-season run came to an end with a 3-2 loss to Colgate in the NCAA semifinals. BU, led by captain Mike Sullivan and Joe Sacco, had won three best-of-three series, each time losing the first game before winning the next two: Northeastern in the Hockey East quarter-finals, then North Dakota and Michigan State (in E. Lansing) in the NCAA tournament.

25 March

1978: Boston University won its third national championship in the first all-East final since BU's 4-0 shutout of Cornell in 1972. The Terriers defeated arch-rival Boston College, 5-3, in the first ever NCAA tournament meeting between the schools. BU was led by freshman Mark Fidler, who registered a 30-goal season, and three future Olympic gold medalists, Dave Silk, Jack O'Callahan and Jim Craig. After Fidler scored 38 seconds into the game, BC's Joe Mullen and Bobby Hehir put the Eagles on top. Goals by Silk and Tony Meagher restored BU's lead. Meagher's second and Fidler's second extended the lead to 5-2 before BC added a final tally. Craig stopped 28 shots while BC's Paul Skidmore had 31 saves. The win capped a 30-2 season for BU, which had won its first 21 games before falling to Yale.

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24 March

1990: In game 2 of its best-of-three NCAA quarterfinal with Michigan State, BU rebounded for a 5-3 win to knot the series at one apiece. The Terriers got goals from Captain Mike Sullivan, Shawn McEachern, Tony Amonte, Ed Ronan, and Phil von Stefenelli in the game played at Munn Arena in East Lansing. Scott Cashman stopped 23 shots for BU.

23 March

1996: Defending national champion BU won the NCAA regional tournament in Albany, edging Clarkson, 3-2. Chris Drury, Bill Pierce and Mike Sylvia staked the Terriers to a 3-0 midway through the second period. The Knights scored twice in the final period to make it close. Tom Noble had 20 saves for the Terriers.

1991: BU completed a two-game sweep of Michigan in the NCAA quarterfinals with an 8-1 thumping at Walter Brown Arena. (QFs were played on campus at the time). Tony Amonte led the way with a pair of goals while single goals were added by Petteri Koskimaki, Dave Tomlinson, David Sacco, Ed Ronan, Tom Dion and Darin MacDonald. BU scored its eight goals on just 29 shots, while John Bradley shot 21 of 22 Wolverine shots. The sweep avenged a regular-season loss to Michigan, 8-6, also at WBA.

1978: The Terriers met defending national champion Wisconsin in the NCAA semifinal in Providence and came away with a 5-2 win. Dave Silk scored twice and John Bethel, Tony Meagher and Mark Fidler added goals. Co-captain Jack O'Callahan assisted on four of the five goals and Jim Craig had 20 saves.

22 March

1997: Chris Drury's goal at 12:20 of overtime gave Boston University a 4-3 win over Denver in the NCAA East Regional Final in Worcester. The second-seeded Terriers (Clarkson was the #1 seed) had taken a 3-2 lead with 3:19 left in regulation on Shawn Bates' shorthanded breakaway goal. However, the Pioneers forced overtime with an extra-attacker goal by Eric Anderson, beating Michel Laroque with 53 seconds left. In the overtime, skating 3-on-3 Chris Kelleher took a pass from Jon Coleman and fired a shot from the left point. Drury was locked up with Denver defender in front of the net, but gained control and slid the rebound past tournament MVP Jim Mullin and then leaped into the glass in celebration.

Drury's goal was his 37th of the season. BU hadn't won a game all season in which Drury didn't get a point and he'd been held scoreless in regulation. Current associate head coach Albie O'Connell scored the first two goals for BU, which would go on to upset defending champion Michigan in the Frozen Four semis before losing to North Dakota in the final.

20 March

1971: Boston University defeated Minnesota, 4-2, at the Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse, NY, to win its first NCAA championship. Terrier goalie Dan Brady made 32 saves and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, while captain and All-American Steve Stirling scored two goals--the second one unassisted--to lead BU to the title. Bob Gryp and Ron Anderson had the other goals. BU finished with a 28-2-1 record and scored a then-record 210 goals while yielding just 60. For the season, the Terriers averaged a 7-2 and had a 40% power play percentage.

The tournament had originally been scheduled to be held at BU’s brand new Walter Brown Arena, but construction delays forced the change in venue. WBA would open the following season.