>Tony Buffa wrote after 2 OT periods in the Mich-Maine
>game
>
>>This is the longest playoff game in history, surpassing
>>such fanastic games as the BG '84 win and the RPI semi
>>final 3OT win (ten minutes per OT back then) over Minn-
>>Duluth in '85.
>
>
>My question is about the NMU-BU game in 1991.  I know
>NMU won in the third overtime.  I don t have any
>references here at work but I thought that one set a
>record?  How long were the OT periods, ten or twenty?
>
>
According to the 1994 NCAA Tournament program, the lonest Tourney game was
BG-Minn-Duluth in 1984: 97 minutes, 11 seconds. (Apparently, 10-minute OTs)
Score; BG 5, MD 4
 
Northern Michigan-BU in 1991 is fifth all-time in NCAA Tourneys at 81:57
(again 10-minute OTs).
 
The longest game all-time was North Dakota 5, Minnesota 4 at the Minnesota
Holiday Classic (final) on Dec. 22, 1968 in Bloomingotn. Rod Christensen
netted the gamewinner. Time--102:09.
 
Today's Maine-Michigan contest at 100:28 (if my math is right) ranks second
all-time in college hockey and first among NCAA Tourney games.
 
 
--Mike J. (Princeton '92)
 
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