THE WAY IT WAS. Wisconsin's hockey team defeats Vermont, then St. Cloud State, to qualify for the round of four in Detroit, a weekend after the basketball tournaments wrap up.

In 1977, Wisconsin won two overtime games at the Olympia Stadium to become the "other" NCAA champion in Wisconsin. The hockey finals were Friday-Saturday, early in March. The basketball final, won by the Marquette Warriors, was the Monday immediately after.

What's up with the smaller universities borrowing professional uniforms? The North Dakota Fighting Sioux look like the Chicago Blackhawks at a St. Patrick's Day party, and the St. Cloud Huskies put a small St. inside a Montreal-style C.