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If they follow the lead of their coach, the Providence College Friars won't take long to park their kick-in-the-gut loss to UMass Lowell on Friday night and move on to bigger business – the NCAA Tournament.
“A loss right now isn't the worst thing in the world,’’ Nate Leaman said late Friday in the hallway outside his team’s dressing room at the T.D. Garden in Boston, where the defending national champions had just been beaten on a disputed goal in a three-overtime epic in the Hockey East semifinals.