On paper, Friday and Saturday looked very different for the Wisconsin Badgers men’s and women’s hockey squads. The lads were playing the hapless, last-place Buckeyes, while the women were hosting the super-talented No. 3 Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Spoiler alert: one of the teams rose to the occasion, while the other, um, took a different, discouraging path.
A Shocking Sweep in Columbus
With first-place Michigan State idle and No. 4 Wisconsin playing a pair in Columbus against the Big Ten’s closest thing to a tomato can, this weekend was primed to see the Badgers wrestle control of the Big Ten back from the Spartans.