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UND Begins National Tournament Run in Sioux Falls

By Ryan Cunningham Mar 24, 2026 | 11:31 AM

(UND Sports Information) – SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (UND Sports Information) – It’s tournament time! No. 2 overall seed North Dakota is set to battle Merrimack in the Sioux Falls Regional Semifinal on Thursday night at 7:32 p.m. from the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in South Dakota.

Thursday will be only the third all-time meeting between North Dakota and Merrimack, with UND holding a 2-0-0 lead in the series.
The only other meetings came in Oct. 2009, when the Fighting Sioux swept a two-game series at Ralph Engelstad Arena to begin the 2009-10 season.
Thursday will be the first matchup with a Hockey East opponent in the NCAA Tournament since 2017, when UND dropped a 4-3 2OT heartbreaker to Boston University in Fargo, N.D.

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