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The University of Denver will play in Saturday's NCAA College Hockey Championship Game !!

Carter Savoie scored with 14:53 gone in overtime, converting on his own rebound to lead Denver past Michigan 3-2 in the Frozen Four semi-final on Thursday night and into the NCAA championship game!

The Pioneers will play for the title Saturday night against Minnesota State. It would be Denver’s ninth hockey championship, tying Michigan for the most in NCAA history!

The championship game will be at 7:00 PM on Saturday.  The game will be on ESPN 2.
 
 
 
 

Denver beat Minnesota State 5-1 in the NCAA Hockey Championship game.

Denver was trailing 1-0 going into the final period.
 
Attendance at Boston = 17,850
 

USD has announced a new women's basketball Assistant Coach with a familiar name for many around here...Ty Margenthaler.
If you don't know, his father Jack is 2nd all time in coaching wins for WIU (221 wins from '77-'92) and is a member of the WIU Athletics Hall of Fame. Ty and his brother Matt (longtime head men's basketball coach at D2 MN State Mankato) were both Macomb High graduates and Matt played for WIU in '89/'90.


 

Make that two USD women's basketball coaches with ties to WIU, as Taylor Ignoto has been hired as an assistant coach.

A familiar face in the Summit League, Ignoto was on staff as an assistant coach for two seasons at Western Illinois and one at Omaha. She was a part of the Leathernecks' 2016-17 championship squad, which clinched the Summit League regular season and tournament titles. WIU advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 22 seasons that March. She worked with 2017 Summit League Player of the Year Emily Clemens, as well as all-Summit picks Morgan Blumer and Taylor Higginbotham.

Her last gig was as an Assistant Coach at Utah State.

Oral Roberts men's soccer player Eugene Quaynor:

Anybody interested in watching a Summit League team, North Dakota is on FS1 tonight as they face Creighton.

Saw UMKC beat Toledo today in the Gulf Coast Showdown 83-71

Also yesterday South Dakota St women beat Rutgers & in non Summit League news, Illinois St women beat Wisconsin

And today the South Dakota St women beat nationally ranked Louisville

In women's basketball last night Grand Canyon beat North Dakota 73-60, former Leatherneck Evan Zars is now at Grand Canyon, she had 22pts and 12 rebounds last night, on the season she is avg 13.3 pts and 9.5 rbs. She is shooting 71% from the field which is currently 4th in the nation.
 

South Dakota's mens basketball coach fell at his house putting up Christmas decorations and is in the hospital