March 3, 2002

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Providence College men's hockey team completed the regular season on Friday, March 1st at UMass Lowell and completed the season in seventh place. The seventh-seeded Friars will begin the HOCKEY EAST Championships on Friday, March 8th when they travel to Walter Brown Arena to face the second-seeded Boston University Terriers.

Boston University won the season series from Providence this year, winning at home and away and tying 5-5 in Providence. The two teams met last season in Providence in the quarterfinals as well. The third-seeded Friars defeated the sixth-seeded Terriers, two-game-to-one. In the third and final game of last year's playoff series, the Friars won the contest, 4-3, at 96:26 in the second overtime in the longest HOCKEY EAST game ever. The Friars prevailed when then-junior Marc Suderman (Regina, Sask.) scored the game-winning goal, ending the marathon.

The Friars have posted a 13-18-5 overall record this season and a 8-13-3 mark in HOCKEY EAST play. Boston University enters the playoffs with an overall mark of 23-8-3 and a league record of 15-6-3.