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Ian Kennedy
Mar 22, 2025
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The NCAA Frozen Four will have two familiar women's hockey foes. The University of Wisconsin and the Ohio State Buckeyes will face-off, yet again, for an NCAA national championship.

How It Happened

The two teams have been the #1 and #2 ranked programs all season.

In the Frozen Four semi-finals, Laila Edwards scored a hat trick to lead the #1 Wisconsin Badgers to a 6-2 win over #4 Minnesota. Also scoring for the Badgers were Caroline Harvey, Kirsten Simms and Casey O'Brien.

O'Brien's performance helped her record her 88th point of the season. It was a new single season record for a Wisconsin player.

"I was just focused on contributing as much as I could to the team's success, and, yeah, it's cool, but that's not what the focus on," said O'Brien. "It's on the team and the next game, it's really all it is."

Now it's a return to the final against Ohio State, who beat them 1-0 last year in the NCAA final.

Ohio State beat Cornell in a closely fought 4-2 game.

After Joy Dunne opened the scoring recording a pair in the opening period to make it 2-0. Lily Delianedis and Kaitlyn Jockims tied things for Cornell in the second period.

Brooke Disher broke the 2-2 tie in the third period, before Makenna Webster scored an insurance marker to lift Ohio State to the 4-2 win.

Ohio State plays Wisconsin Sunday afternoon at 4pm.

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MaxMiller@THNew profile image
MaxMillerJan 17, 2025
Gallant is an enforcer that's for sure
ThadI@THNews profile image
ThadIJan 18, 2025
Montana Onyebuchi played for a the Cuda a couple years, as well. Also, the suspension is a little misleading; he did leave the bench to start a fight, but it looked like a legal line change.