Just over two weeks ago, a downtrodden Boston University women’s hockey team traveled to Durham, N.H. having lost seven out of its last nine games. The team found itself once again without one of its top players and struggled to play a full 60-minute contest.

Ultimately, the Terriers fell in the game against the University of New Hampshire and extended their losing streak to three.

Now, a rejuvenated BU squad, which has not lost since the disappointing tilt against the Wildcats on Jan. 19, will return to Durham with momentum and the healthiest roster it has sported since the season started in the end of September.

“You’ve got to have confidence,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “We were playing with reasonable confidence, reasonable ability to close the deal in the first 12-15 games of the year but then when we started seeing [the University of Wisconsin] and [Cornell University] and a couple of games with [Northeastern University], we lost some of that confidence because those were top teams that we weren’t getting points from.

“Now to have strung off four games in a row, three against the top teams, you like to think the confidence is coming back.”

Most recently in their line of impressive wins, the Terriers (15-12-1, 9-7 Hockey East) defeated No. 8 Harvard University 5-2 in the first round of the Beanpot tournament Wednesday night.

The Terriers started the scoring early with a short-handed tally from junior forward Jill Cardella, her eighth of the season, a mere 6:30 into the first period. Cardella scored the goal during BU’s first penalty kill of 11 in the contest.

Six minutes later, sophomore defenseman Kaleigh Fratkin scored a power-play goal to put BU up by two.

During the second period, the Terriers had three more goals, scored by sophomore forward Marie-Phillip Poulin, junior forward Isabel Menard and senior captain Jenn Wakefield.

After having 27 shots on goal during the first two periods, BU’s offense quieted during the third frame.

The Crimson made a late attempt at coming back into the contest with two power-play goals, however it would not be enough to overcome the strong performance by BU in the earlier part of the game.

Since defeating the Terriers two weeks ago, the Wildcats (10-15-3, 4-9-2 Hockey East) have experienced mixed results as they were shut out and dominated offensively by Northeastern, then split a home-and-home series with the University of Vermont this past weekend.

“Every point they can get is going to be important,” Durocher said. “I would expect them to try to play a hard, intelligent game that borders a little bit on the defensive side.”

In its most recent contest, New Hampshire fell 2-1 to the Catamounts. Although New Hampshire scored first with a goal by sophomore Nicole Gifford with less than a minute left in the first frame, the Catamounts fought back, scoring in each of the next two periods.

When BU traveled to play UNH two weeks ago, BU fell to the Wildcats 4-2 after taking an early lead.

Fratkin put the Terriers on the board 4:40 into the first frame. However, a three-goal third period by the Wildcats put the game out of reach.

Wakefield also tallied a goal in the loss.

During the game against New Hampshire, and for a good portion of the season, BU has played with an injured team, missing several key players.

The largest loss for the team has been Poulin, who missed most of the season after injuring her spleen in the second game of the year. Poulin came back for two games in January before injuring her shoulder.

“Anytime you take somebody who can get two points, it makes a huge difference on a team,” Durocher said.

The Beauceville, Quebec native returned three games ago and has had notched a point in each game.

While Poulin has returned to the roster, BU will likely play without junior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk and junior netminder Alissa Fromkin for the rest of the season, according to Durocher.

“Right now probably borders on we won’t see them this year,” Durocher said. “It’s not a hundred percent in stone but that’s the indication I seem to be getting from the doctors and their slow progress here and everything that’s going on.”

The most important thing for Durocher is that the team continues to compete at a high level.

“We’ve got to keep beating the same drum,” Durocher said, “and that’s trying to play the majority of the 60 minute if not all 60.”