Updated March 28, 2026, 4:41 p.m. ET
When it involves Final (and Frozen) Fours, there are solely three.
Soon, there may very well be 4.
There have solely been three faculties whose males’s and girls’s basketball groups and hockey workforce all have made no less than one Division I Final (or Frozen) Four: Michigan State, Penn State and Ohio State.
Now, Michigan has an opportunity to develop into the fourth — and the first to have all three do it in the similar yr.
The males’s basketball workforce will play its Elite Eight game against Tennessee on Sunday, whereas Michigan hockey will play Minnesota-Duluth for a spot in the Frozen Four, additionally Sunday. The ladies’s basketball workforce advanced to its second Elite Eight with a 71-52 win over Louisville on Saturday, and can play Texas or Kentucky on Monday.
Michigan males’s basketball (eight appearances, most not too long ago in 2018) and hockey (28 appearances, most not too long ago in 2024) have made the Final/Frozen Four many occasions. Michigan ladies’s basketball has by no means made it.
This is the first time Michigan males’s and girls’s basketball each made the Elite Eight in the similar season.
Michigan State males’s and girls’s basketball each made the Final Four in 2005, which was the solely look for the Spartans’ ladies’s basketball program. Men’s basketball has made 9 Final Fours (most not too long ago in 2019), whereas hockey has made 11 Frozen Fours (most not too long ago in 2007).
Ohio State has made 11 Final Fours in males’s basketball and one in ladies’s basketball, and two Frozen Fours. Penn State has made one in every sport.
Next up for Michigan
Men’s basketball (34-3), vs. Tennessee, 2:15 p.m. Sunday (CBS)
Hockey (30-7-1), vs. Minnesota-Duluth, 5:30 p.m. Sunday (ESPN)
Women’s basketball (28-6), vs. Texas or Kentucky, 7 p.m. Monday (TBD)
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