They represented the University of Michigan in the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season.

Michigan advanced to the Frozen Four for the first time since 2011, but lost to Notre Dame in the national semifinals after captain Jake Evans scored the game-winning goal with six seconds remaining.

When the team reached the Frozen Four it marked the sixth time a school had reached the final four of the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship and NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in the same season: Michigan (1964, 1992*, 1993* and 2018) and Michigan State (1999 and 2001).

[1] During the 2016–17 ice hockey season Michigan went 13–19–3, including 6–12–2 in Big Ten Play.

Michigan lost in the first round of the 2017 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament to eventual tournament winner Penn State by a score of 4 to 1.