ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Michigan hockey team has drawn inspiration from the tournament run made by the men's basketball team.
John Beilein's squad kept getting better before finishing runner-up to Villanova on Monday in the national championship game in San Antonio, Texas.
The U-M hockey team (22-14-3) has advanced to the Frozen Four at the Xcel Energy Center and faces Notre Dame (27-9-2) on Thursday (9:30, ESPN2) in a semifinal. U-M split a four-game regular-season series with the Irish.
“I think they were the underdogs going into that tournament,” Michigan senior forward Tony Calderone said of the Wolverines’ basketball team.