This weekend didn’t go as planned. The No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers (18-3-3, 13-3-2-0-2 WCHA) women’s hockey team traveled to Minneapolis looking for revenge against the No. 5 Minnesota Golden Gophers (19-6-1, 14-5-1 WCHA), who had handed UW their first, and until this weekend only, loss of the season.
As mentioned...things didn’t go as planned.
The Gophers swept the Badgers, 2-1 on Friday night and 4-3 on Saturday afternoon, to move ahead of Wisconsin in the WCHA standings. Minnesota now has the most points in the conference, but sits in second place behind Ohio State due to the Buckeyes having a better points percentage (which is how the league will decided the regular season champion due to certain teams playing fewer games due to COVID).