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Women’s hockey: Top-ranked Badgers visit North Dakota for key conference matchup

The University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team hits the road for the second week in a row, taking on the University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks in a two-game series this weekend.

For the No. 1 Badgers (5-0-1, 3-0-1 WCHA), Saturday’s matchup against North Dakota begins an eight-game stretch of Western Collegiate Hockey Association conference games. The last time the Badgers met the Hawks in Grand Forks, North Dakota handed them their first loss of the 2015 season.

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Including the postseason, the loss would prove to be one of UW’s only four of the entire 2015-16 campaign.