BTN.com staff, BTN.com staff, March 22, 2015

Big Ten regular season and postseason champion Minnesota is the lone Big Ten men's hockey team to make the NCAA field, it was announced Sunday.

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The Gophers, who won the Big Ten tournament title Saturday night to claim the Big Ten's automatic berth, open the tourney vs. Minnesota-Duluth at 5:30 p.m. ET Friday on ESPNU.

Should Minnesota win, it would face the Boston University-Yale winner for a berth in the Frozen Four.

This marks Minnesota's fourth consecutive NCAA tourney appearance and the 36th in program history.