It’s been five years since the last time University of Wisconsin women’s hockey lifted the national championship trophy — an eternity in the minds of its players.
Last season, the Badgers came ever so close to erasing that drought but ultimately fell to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in the Frozen Four. That game went to overtime and was eerily predicted to end in that fashion by Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson, whose team lost 3-2.
Unfortunately, Johnson and the Badgers are no strangers to their season ending at the hands of Minnesota. Since the Badgers’ last national championship during the 2010-11 season, Minnesota has knocked the Badgers out of contention three times and beaten them in the NCAA championship game once.