After winning the Big Ten regular season title and playing Tuesday night (that’s tonight!) for the Big Ten Tournament title, it was kind of expected that the Wisconsin Badgers men’s hockey team would receive a lot of recognition from the conference when postseason awards were handed out. And, lo and behold, that is exactly what happened!
Let’s get the two primary individual award winners out of the way first.
Head coach Tony Granato won Big Ten Coach of the Year, his second time earning the award, after leading the Badgers on a worst to first turnaround.