That 13-game winless streak in October and November seems like a long, long time ago for Northeastern’s men’s hockey team.

Kevin Roy had two goals and two assists and the Huskies beat No. 10 Notre Dame, 6-4, on Saturday night in South Bend, Ind., to sweep the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series. The win sends NU to TD Garden for the conference semifinals for the first time since 2011.

Since those early struggles, the Huskies (20-13-5) have been on a tear. They’ll be heading to the Garden having gone 18-1-2 in the last 21 games, their last loss coming to Boston University in the Beanpot opener.

Notre Dame (19-10-7), coming off a 3-1 loss on Friday night, struck first on Saturday, Luke Ripley scoring his first of the season at 14:38 of the first.

Colton Saucerman got NU even before the period elapsed, beating Cal Petersen at 18:50. NU took charge quickly in the second, getting goals from Roy (2:26), Garret Cockerill (3:33), and Dylan Sikura (5:46), and never looked back. Mario Lucia gave ND hope, getting one back with five seconds left in the period, but Roy got his second 1:12 in the third.

Providence 2, Merrimack 0 — Garrett Gamez and Kevin Rooney scored in the third period and Nick Ellis stopped all 20 shots he faced as the No. 4 Friars (27-5-4) blanked the visiting Warriors (13-19-7) and advanced to the Hockey East semifinals by sweeping their best-of-three series.

Harvard 8, Rensselaer 2 — Jimmy Vesey had two goals and an assist and the No. 12 Crimson blew out the Engineers (18-15-7) and swept their best-of-three ECAC series. The Crimson (18-9-4) outscored Rensselaer, 13-4, in the two-game series for their fourth win in the last five games.

Dartmouth 2, Yale 1 — Timothy Shoup and Kevan Kilistoff scored in the first period and Charlie Grant stopped 46 of 47 shots as the Big Green (18-15-1) finished off a two-game sweep of the seventh-ranked Bulldogs (19-8-4) to advance to the ECAC semifinals.

Cornell 5, Quinnipiac 4 — Trevor Yates scored 5:44 into the third period and the No. 15 Big Red (16-10-7) beat the top-ranked Bobcats (26-3-7) in Hamden, Conn., to force a deciding game in their first-round ECAC series.

Robert Morris 4, Bentley 1 — Brady Ferguson scored twice and the top-seeded Colonials (22-10-4) beat the Falcons (14-19-6) and force a deciding game in their Atlantic Hockey series.

Men’s basketball

America East final — Jameel Warney scored 43 points and host Stony Brook reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time by coming from behind for an 80-74 win over Vermont.

Top-seeded Stony Brook (26-6) had reached this point four times in the last five seasons, including the last two years, and lost each time — each defeat seemingly more excruciating than the last. Last year, a 3-pointer with just seconds left by Albany kept the Seawolves out of the NCAAs.

The Seawolves (26-6) were down 15 in the second half, but Warney’s unstoppable inside game — he hit 18 of 22 shots — was too much for the Catamounts (21-13).

‘‘He played out of his mind,’’ Vermont’s Ethan O’Day said. ‘‘He did whatever he wanted.’’

Carson Puriefoy contributed 23 points and some big free throws down the stretch for Stony Brook. Trae Bell-Haynes led Vermont with 17 points.

Vermont went up by 13 with 16:00 left in the second half when Bell-Haynes got a runner in the lane to bounce through.

Stony Brook’s 4,100-seat on-campus arena still has the smell of new plastic seats two years after a major renovation, and it was jammed with red-clad fans. The Long Island school has invested heavily in athletics in recent years and residents of the suburbs that surround this campus, 60 miles east of Manhattan, have mostly embraced the attempt to bring big-time college sports to Suffolk County.

Two straight hoops inside by Warney got the deficit to 48-39 with 13:54 left, prompting a timeout from Vermont. Stony Brook tied it at 61 with 6:19 left on a short jumper by Rayshaun McGrew. When Warney made a free throw with 5:59 left, Stony Brook led, 62-61.

Warney got free down the baseline and put the Seawolves up, 73-70, with 2:01 left. Then it was Warney again, this time securing a rebound with one hand and flipping it back to make it 75-72. Two more free throws by Puriefoy with 46.4 second left made it a two-possession game, 77-72.

American Athletic semifinal — Daniel Hamilton and Shonn Miller scored 19 points apiece and Connecticut shrugged off a slow start to beat top-seeded Temple, 77-62, and advance to Sunday’s conference championship game against Memphis in Orlando.

Showing no signs of fatigue after needing four overtimes to win the longest game in league history in the quarterfinals, the Huskies (23-10) built a 16-point first-half lead and weathered a couple of Temple surges before pulling away. Jaylen Bond led Temple (21-11) with 17 points . . . Dedric Lawson had 17 points and sixth-seeded Memphis (19-14) beat 10th-seeded Tulane, 74-54, in the other semifinal.

ACC final — Seventh-ranked North Carolina held No. 4 Virgina without a field goal for more than eight minutes in the second half and tournament MVP Joel Berry II scored 19 points, giving the Tar Heels (28-6) a 61-57 victory in Washington for their first league title since 2008. Malcolm Brogdon led Virginia (26-7) with 15 points, but the conference player of the year was limited to 6 of 22 on field-goal attempts, 2 of 9 on threes.

Big East final — Isaiah Whitehead scored 26 points, including the deciding 3-point play with 18 seconds left, and Seton Hall (25-8) won the Big East Tournament for the first time in 23 years by getting a 69-67 win over No. 3 Villanova (29-5) at Madison Square Garden.

Whitehead drove hard on the right side, flipped the ball in softly off the glass and was fouled. His free throw gave the Pirates a 68-67 lead. Villanova had two more chances sandwiched around a free throw by Angel Delgado, but the Pirates held on to beat the defending champions.

It was Seton Hall’s third Big East Tournament title, the others coming in 1991 and 1993. The third-seeded Pirates earned the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, their first berth in 10 years.

The top-seeded Wildcats finally started hitting from 3-point range in the second half. They tied the game four times before finally taking their first lead since three minutes into the game when Kris Jenkins’s 3-pointer gave them a 67-64 lead with 50 seconds to play.

Big 12 final — Devonte Graham matched a career-high with 27 points, Wayne Selden Jr. added 21, and top-ranked Kansas overcame a remarkable 31-point performance by West Virginia’s Devin Williams for an 81-71 victory over the ninth-ranked Mountaineers in Kansas City, Mo. Perry Ellis added 17 points for the Jayhawks (30-4), who almost certainly locked up the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA Tournament.