PROVIDENCE NATIONAL CHAMPS

[gosports1]

Gentlemen and (ladies?) your 2015 NCAA mens hockey champions, Providence College friars

[Burrito]

Nice. Congrats Friars.

[billyjack]

White knuckle action in 3rd period...!!!
Woo hoo...!!!

4-3 Friar win...!!!
PC tied it at 3-3 with 8 minutes left on an insane play.
Gorgeous go-ahead goal under 7 minutes by Brandan Tanev...!

This championship belongs to all 10 schools in the Big East too...!

[DudeAnon]

Congrats PC! I switched the channel during the 3rd when they were down 3-2. Switched back later right after they won, couldn't believe it. Gotta feel for that Boston Goalie, wth was he thinking.

Link to video of Goalie scoring on himself.
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/bosto ... +bubbaprog

[MUPanther]

What a goal to tie it! When you think you have seen everything.

[BEX]

Wow. Congrats Friars!!!!

[notkirkcameron]

Congrats, Friars!

For what it's worth, Providence is the only hockey school in the Big East, but all of the other 9 schools have club teams

Butler
Creighton
DePaul
Georgetown
Marquette
St. John's
Seton Hall
Villanova
Xavier

Maybe instead of adding third-tier schools, we should be adding sports? At the risk of starting a discussion better served for another thread, hockey is a sport with relatively little in the way of regional competitors to Big East schools, particularly the Midwestern schools. There are only FIVE Division I Hockey programs in the eight states of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky (Nebraska-Omaha, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Miami, and Bowling Green). Similarly, there are no D1 Hockey teams in DC, Philly, or within 50 miles of New York City (Princeton is the closest).

[Boyee]

The St. John's Club Hockey link is showing Saint John's University of Minnesota.

[mel ott]

Wow. Congrats Friars!!!!

agree- Omaha located Cu fan here, but excited for the Friars! National Championship- doesn't get any better than that!

[NovaBall]

Villanova should drop football so they can better fund soccer and start a hockey team. They are planning a renovation of their on campus arena, they could put ice under the hoops court like nba/nhl arenas.

That was an awesome game for providence.

Although this is a Hockey East title, not a big east title. UConn and Boston College have more of a claim to it than us big east schools. But providence is a big east team otherwise and I was pumped for them. Their fans love their hockey team.