INSIDE WOMEN'S HOCKEY BY ROSS LADUE @BadgerWHockey
Badgers keep No. 1 seed
after wild final week Upset-riddled weekend benefitted Wisconsin
F
avored teams did not fair well last weekend in
women's hockey, as five of the eight teams selected for the NCAA tournament are coming off a loss. Two teams, St. Lawrence
and Boston University, might have not made the field of eight if they hadn't managed to win their conference's tournament titles and gain automatic bids.
St. Lawrence entered the ECAC tournament on a hot streak and was able to use that to upset Cornell in the title game.
season,
After a shaky start to the Boston University
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has the majority of its play- ers back from injury and knocked Boston College out of the Hockey East semifi- nals. Providence College then upset Northeastern in the other semifinal of the Hock- ey East tournament, conse- quently killing any hopes the Huskies had of making the NCAA tournament. Boston University then went on to defeat Providence in double overtime for the auto bid. Mercyhurst also lost its tournament title game, losing 3-2 to Robert Morris. How- ever, the CHA does not get an automatic bid, and RMU ended its season with a win.
SCHEDULE (31-4-2, 23-3-2)
Last Five Feb. 17 Feb. 18 Feb. 24 Feb. 25
Ohio State Ohio State
March 2 Minnesota Duluth
This Week Saturday Mercyhurst
Up Next March 16 NCAA Frozen Four March 18 NCAA Frozen Four
W, 7-1 L, 4-2
Minnesota State W, 7-0 Minnesota State W, 4-0 L, 3-1
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Wisconsin in the NCAA tourney » The Badgers have an overall record of 14-2-0 in NCAA tournament games, with the only losses coming to Dartmouth in Wisconsin's first- ever trip to the NCAA tournament on March 19, 2005 and to Minne- sota Duluth in the 2008 national title game. Since losing that cham- pionship tilt in 2008, the Badgers have gone on to outscore their op- ponents 26-5 en route to winning national titles in 2009 and 2011.
