>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) ******************************************************** "Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh my God. I just talked to her last week. She was going to make me a pot." --Otter, "Animal House" ********************************************************