Over a six year period Holy Cross wen 2–5 in the conference postseason and never really got close to an NCAA tournament berth.

They made the ECAC tournament three out of four years under Peter Van Buskirk but couldn't manage a win.

The team went through a down period under Bill Bellerose for six seasons but started winning again when Paul Pearl became head coach in 1994.

After recording their best season in fifteen years Holy Cross promoted its program to Division I and joined the MAAC in 1998–99.

[4] In their first year of D–I play Holy Cross won its first Conference Tournament, winning the inaugural MAAC Championship.

The met #2 overall seeded Minnesota in the first round and pushed the heavily favored Golden Gophers into overtime where Tyler McGregor scored 53 seconds in, winning what is usually noted as the biggest upset in tournament history.

[5] Holy Cross would decline after their miraculous 2006 season, posting losing records for four consecutive years, but the program began to recover in the second decade of the 20th century.

Paul Pearl resigned in 2014 and was replaced by David Berard who saw middling regular season results.