The time has come to decide the 2025 NCAA men's hockey championship. The Frozen Four is set, with Boston University and Penn State set to do battle for the chance to take on the winner of the Denver-Western Michigan contest for the national championship.

Ohio State, Minnesota and No. 2 Michigan State all fell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, leaving Penn State (22-13-4) as the final team remaining from the conference in the tournament. After their miserable start in conference play, the Nittany Lions proved it isn’t how you start, it’s how you finish.

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Sergeev transferred from UConn to Penn State. The goaltender beat his former team in the NCAA Tournament. Then he bear-hugged his coach.

UConn is coming off a 5-2 loss to Maine, the No. 3 overall seed in the 2025 NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament in the Hockey East championship game on Friday. The Huskies are 22-11-4 overall on the season and a dark horse team to make the Frozen Four, per former Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player Colby Cohen on the ESPNU bracket reveal show.

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The Nittany Lions defeated UConn in overtime in the NCAA Hockey Tournament's Allentown regional final, earning a trip to St. Louis.

That fact was never displayed more prominently than when Cerrato had the instincts to know his teammate was trailing behind him for the game-winning overtime goal in Sunday night’s 2-1 win over UConn to send Penn State to its first Frozen Four in program history.