FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact Bob Rothwell
March 3, 2002   (401) 865-2201

PROVIDENCE HOCKEY SEEDED SEVENTH FOR HOCKEY EASTS
Friars to play at second-seeded Boston University in best-of-three
quarterfinal series.

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.

– FRIARS –
Bob Rothwell
Senior Assistant Director of Athletic Media Relations
Providence College
phone: (401) 865-2201
fax: (401) 865-2583

GO FRIARS !