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Boston University's coach Jack Parker holds the NCAA hockey championship trophy while being surrounded by his players after the Terriers defeated Miami of Ohio 4-3 in overtime to win their fifth national title.

Wingels knocked in a rebound with 7½ minutes left, and Vogelhuber added to the advantage with 4:08 to go after BU turned the puck over at the blue line.

The RedHawks’ supporters in the crowd of 18,512 certainly thought the championship was won right there: Shortly after Vogelhuber’s goal, they unleashed loud chants of “Yes, we can! Yes, we can!”

With only a handful of minutes left, the RedHawks might have been forgiven for thinking those fans were right. After all, up until then, Miami had allowed all of five goals in the entire tournament.

It was still 3-1 as the last minute began. But with Millan on the bench in favor of an extra skater, Zack Cohen corralled Bonino’s rebound and lifted a backhander over Reichard with 59.5 seconds left. That pulled the Terriers within a goal.

And when Bonino tied it, the Terriers began jumping and back-slapping — even though the final outcome was still in doubt, of course. But at least BU suddenly had a chance.

Parker, who won his third national title, needed to calm down his team during the locker-room time before OT.

“I told them to relax. They were all excited like they’d just won,” Parker said. “I told them they had to relax and get ready to win the game. They hadn’t won it yet.”

This was the first NCAA hockey championship game to go to an extra period since 2002, when Minnesota beat Maine. Parker thought back to the 1991 final, which his BU team lost in three OTs to Northern Michigan. But this one didn’t go nearly as long.

Gilroy said this week that he and his teammates noticed the banner hanging from the rafters during the Frozen Four that showed BU’s title-winning years of 1971, 1972, 1978 and 1995. At next year’s Frozen Four, they’ll have to add 2009, something that didn’t quite seem possible to anyone late in Saturday’s game.

“I’m a confident person — in our team — and I when we went into the last minute, I was even down a little bit,” said BU forward Colin Wilson, a Hobey Baker runner-up to Gilroy. “We had big players who made big plays.”

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