Picture this: your team is up 5 points with a minute left, and the other team gets a technical foul called on them. Or this: you go up 15 at the halftime break, a mark that 1-seeds were 134-0 from.

Back in the 2000s, Merrimack College was a small, private school in the Augustinian tradition, with an athletic program that was mostly in Division II. Outside of hockey, the one sport the school was ...