The University of Denver hockey team crossed two time zones to reach its NCAA regional in Springfield, Mass. There, the top-seeded Pioneers met a fourth-seeded UMass Minutemen squad that needed to drive approximately 26 miles to arrive at MassMutual Center for Thursday afternoon’s win-or-go home affair. Yet somehow, the Pios never ran out of gas. In the longest NCAA Tournament game in DU history, goaltender Matt Davis made a career-high 46 saves and forward Tristan Broz slipped a wrist shot into the right side of the net to send the Pioneers to a 2-1 double-overtime victory that left a partisan UMass crowd stunned. “I’m just really proud of our team,” DU coach David Carle told reporters after the game.