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Badgers recruit John Stout of the Madison Capitols is the USHL defenseman of the week. He had a goal and an assist plus scored in a shootout against Youngstown on Saturday.

Wisconsin women's hockey's longtime reign atop national rankings ends after loss The Badgers fell out of the top spot in the USCHO.com rankings after losing to Ohio State in the WCHA playoff championship game.

After 43 straight USCHO women's hockey polls with Wisconsin in the top spot, Ohio State has overtaken the Badgers.
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Big Ten playoffs start with Wisconsin men's hockey back in top 10 of national rankings The Badgers' sweep of the Nittany Lions continued their upward trajectory in the USCHO.com rankings. Here's where they stand entering the Big Ten Tournament.

The Badgers men's hockey team is back in the top 10 as it starts the postseason.
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From last week: Stevens Point's Teddy Westrick was named the ninth winner of the Jeff Sauer Humanitarian Award for high school hockey players.

Wisconsin women's hockey learns which teams are coming to Madison for NCAA regional The Badgers will host the winner of a Thursday first-round game at LaBahn Arena. Here's what their path to the Frozen Four looks like.

The ECAC Hockey and NEWHA playoff champions are coming to Madison for the NCAA women's hockey regional this week.
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#WellensWasRight

I can see that. I just think that changing two of the three first-round games and having UMD on a bus might be more appealing than changing all three first-round games and putting UMD on a plane.

(8) Yale vs. (11) Franklin Pierce, at (1) Ohio State (7) Quinnipiac vs. (10) Minnesota Duluth, at (2) Wisconsin (6) UConn vs. (9) Princeton, at (3) Penn State (5) Northeastern at (4) Minnesota

The NCAA women's hockey selection show is at 10:30 a.m. CT on ESPNU. The committee had a little bit of work to do in setting up regionals because of Yale and Princeton being at 8 and 9. Here's my best guess on how they split them up:

Ohio State's disruptions cost Wisconsin women's hockey late in WCHA title game The Badgers had trouble getting through the neutral zone against the Buckeyes. They'll have to figure out a different way in a potential NCAA Tournament rematch.

Ohio State's dominance of Wisconsin at the blue line caused one of the biggest plays in the Buckeyes' rally past the Badgers for the WCHA playoff title. UW needs to find an answer if there's a rematch in two weeks.
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3 things that stood out in Wisconsin's WCHA championship loss to Ohio State The Buckeyes scored twice in the third period to erase a Badgers lead and win the WCHA playoff championship. Here's what stood out.

The Badgers couldn't hold a third-period lead and watched Ohio State skate away with the WCHA playoff title and the top seed for the NCAA Tournament. Here's what stood out.
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Penn State's 3-2 win over Mercyhurst in the Atlantic Hockey championship game clinches the final at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament for Minnesota Duluth. It had to be a long, stressful week for the Bulldogs, but they're in.

3 things that stood out in Wisconsin men's hockey's sweep at No. 6 Penn State Oliver Tulk recorded his first two-goal game for the Badgers, who ended the regular season with a sweep for the first time since 2021. Here's what stood out.

The Badgers are going into the postseason on the heels of a road sweep of No. 6 Penn State that massively helped their NCAA Tournament hopes. Here's what stood out.
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NCAA women's hockey tourney update: Yale's win over Cornell in the ECAC semis means:
— Princeton is the ninth team to clinch a spot.
— Minnesota Duluth's hopes rest with the result of the AHA final. If Penn State wins, UMD is in. If Mercyhurst wins, UMD is out.

It's Wisconsin women's hockey and Ohio State for another title, but first a day off The WCHA Final Faceoff has a day between the semifinals and championship game for the first time, and the Badgers get extra time to prepare for the Buckeyes.

The Badgers are in the WCHA playoff championship game for the 17th time. A day off before it is a new element this year. Here's why and what players think about it.
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3 things that stood out in Wisconsin men's hockey's win at Penn State The Badgers scored four times in the third period for a road win against the Nittany Lions. Here's what stood out.

Home ice for the first round of the Big Ten playoffs got delivered to the Badgers while they were playing at Penn State, but they completed perhaps the best third period of the season to secure a win.
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3 things that stood out in Wisconsin women's hockey's runaway WCHA semifinal win Kirsten Simms and Kelly Gorbatenko both scored twice as the Badgers rolled past Minnesota State to earn a spot in the WCHA championship game. Here's what stood out.

The Badgers' four Patty Kazmaier Award finalists all had an impact in a WCHA Final Faceoff semifinal win. Here's what stood out.
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Wisconsin has 4 finalists for Patty Kazmaier Award as best women's hockey player The Badgers put four players on the list of 10 Patty Kazmaier Award finalists for the second consecutive season.

Last year seemed like an outlier with the Badgers having four of the 10 finalists for the Party Kazmaier Award. Then they did it again this season, a reminder of how special this group is.
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Star defender keeps Wisconsin women's hockey's hold on WCHA player of the year award Caroline Harvey became the first player to win the WCHA defender of the year award in three straight years and added a bigger prize.

The WCHA player of the year and coach of the year awards are staying with the Badgers, and Caroline Harvey accomplished something no one else has before.
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'Motivation is at an all-time high' as Wisconsin men's hockey chases NCAA Tournament bid The Badgers play at Penn State to close the Big Ten regular season. Here's where they stand in the NCAA Tournament picture.

Wisconsin men's hockey has won its last five games at Penn State entering the final series of the regular season Thursday and Friday. Extending that streak would help the Badgers' NCAA Tournament hopes.
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Wisconsin's NCAA-leading goalie stops pucks but leaves designing her mask to others Badgers goalie Ava McNaughton turned over design control for her new mask to the team's equipment manager and debuted it in her return from the Olympics last week.

Ava McNaughton stops pucks for the Badgers. Designing a new mask to wear for the playoffs? She's willing to concede that's not in her skill set.

Here's the story behind what she debuted last week.
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These are the scenarios that push Northeastern past Minnesota for fourth:
• Any Minnesota loss PLUS a Northeastern win over UConn.
• A Minnesota win over Minnesota State in the WCHA final PLUS a Northeastern win.
• A Northeastern loss if Minnesota loses to Minnesota State.

We already knew that Minnesota and Northeastern are going to finish fourth and fifth overall in NPI but the order (and hosting rights for finishing fourth) is uncertain. Each team now finishes fourth in 50% of remaining scenarios. (more)

These are the NCAA women's tourney impacts after Northeastern and UConn won Hockey East semis:
• Quinnipiac is the 7th team confirmed in
• Yale makes it in 94% of remaining scenarios (was 80%)
• Princeton makes it in 78% (was 61%)
• Minnesota Duluth makes it in 28% (was 14%)

What has to happen for Wisconsin women's hockey to be top seed in NCAA Tournament The Badgers control their path to the top of the NCAA Tournament bracket entering conference championship week. Here's how things look.

Conference championship week in NCAA women's hockey gets underway Tuesday night. Here's how things line up for the Badgers in the race for the top seed in the NCAA Tournament.
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Wisconsin's Lacey Eden is the WCHA forward of the month for February and goalie Rhyah Stewart is rookie of the month.

This USCHO analysis of the remaining scenarios in D1 women's hockey has six teams locked into the NCAA field, nine teams needing to win their conference tourney, three from ECAC Hockey with at-large AND autobid chances and Minnesota Duluth sweating.
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Inside Wisconsin football’s two-week scramble to onboard 34 transfers additions The start of football's transfer portal moving to January triggered a rapid-fire effort to secure housing, admissions and more for new Badgers players.

The 34 transfers coming into the Badgers football program all needed to address admissions, housing and a lot more in a matter of days. A Wisconsin staffer and her spreadsheet was at the center of it.
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Wisconsin women's hockey earns rest before WCHA Final Faceoff — on the ice, anyway The Badgers avoided having to play an extra day in their WCHA playoff series after Bemidji State forced overtime in Game 2.

The Badgers (mostly) earned a day off Sunday with their Game 2 overtime win over Bemidji State, and that could prove to be valuable this postseason.
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The WCHA site now has Wisconsin-Minnesota State as the early game Thursday.

The WCHA Final Faceoff at Lee and Penny Anderson Arena in St. Paul is set.

Semifinals are 4 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday (the league hasn't confirmed yet what the order is):
Wisconsin vs. Minnesota State
Ohio State vs. Minnesota

Winners play for the championship at 2 p.m. Saturday.