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Great game by the Women’s Hockey Team. Thread Title updated for the National Championship!!
buckeyeintn
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Can Muzerall also coach men's hockey, men's and women's basketball, and football, all at the same time? That might meet the expectations of some of the fanbase.
Great great win! That was a real nail biter. Ten years ago, if you told me I would care this much about women’s hockey and women’s bball, I would have laughed in your face.
ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
The Cheese monkey is off our back. For those keeping score, that's four straight frozen fours, three straight championship games and two of the last three national championships. Extend her contract with a huge ass raise and build that woman a proper arena!
There was a whole lot scary points in that game. All I can say is Kirk stood on her head for that trophy. Wow, she was great!
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Like last year. First goal scored was the winner. This year, it fell to us.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ohio State Firmly Established As Women’s Hockey Powerhouse with Second National Championship in Three Years
Ohio State women’s hockey had never made the NCAA Tournament when Nadine Muzerall was hired. Eight years later, the Buckeyes are two-time national champions.
OHIO STATE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS WOMEN’S HOCKEY POWERHOUSE WITH SECOND NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN THREE YEARS
Ohio State women’s hockey had never made an NCAA Tournament when Nadine Muzerall became the Buckeyes’ head coach in 2016. Eight years later, the Buckeyes are now a two-time national champion.
Few would have guessed Ohio State was a sleeping giant in the sport when Muzerall took over the program in September 2016. In the years leading up to Muzerall’s arrival, the program was known for scandals rather than success. The Buckeyes were coming off a 10-25-1 season, after which Jenny Potter was fired for committing NCAA violations; their previous coach, Nate Handrahan, was fired following sexual harassment accusations.
Ohio State never even won 60 percent of its games in a single season before Muzerall arrived, nor had it ever finished higher than fourth in the conference standings. Even Muzerall admitted after Ohio State won its first national championship in 2022 that she had reservations about taking the job because of the program’s lack of success to that point.
Now, however, Ohio State is firmly established as one of the elite programs in the sport. A program that had been one of Ohio State’s least successful teams for most of its history has now become arguably its most successful, winning its second NCAA championship in three years on Sunday when the Buckeyes defeated Wisconsin, 1-0, to avenge their loss in last year’s national championship game.
Muzerall expressed gratitude to Ohio State during her postgame press conference for believing in her ability to turn the Buckeyes into an elite program.
“As much as I took a chance on Ohio State, Ohio State took a chance on me,” Muzerall said. “Because I was just a second assistant at Minnesota, my alma mater, we had a lot of success. But a lot of people at Ohio State believed in me and what I could do.”
After going just 14-18-5 in Muzerall’s first season at the helm – when she was hired less than three weeks before the season started – Ohio State has won at least 60 percent of its games in every season since. The Buckeyes have made the Frozen Four five out of six possible times since, proving they have staying power as one of the elite teams in the sport.
Yet Muzerall and the Buckeyes still felt like they had a lot to prove entering Sunday’s national championship game. As Muzerall put it on Saturday, Ohio State felt like “the hot new nightclub,” in that the Buckeyes had been successful and become a destination where top players wanted to play, yet still didn’t have the legacy of the sport’s blue bloods – Wisconsin, Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth and Clarkson, the programs that have won all of the other 22 NCAA championships since women’s college hockey became an official NCAA sport in 2001.
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As consistently great as Ohio State has been in Muzerall’s tenure, though, there’s no reason to believe the Buckeyes won’t continue to be a championship contender next season and beyond. Muzerall already showed this season that she could build a championship team through the transfer portal – six of the Buckeyes’ key contributors this season, including leading scorer Hannah Bilka and second-team All-American defenseman Cayla Barnes, were offseason transfer additions from Boston College – while Dunne (42 points this season), fellow freshman forward Jocelyn Amos (30 points), sophomore forward Sloane Matthews (28 points) and sophomore defender Emma Peschel (23 points) are among the team’s young stars who could still play multiple more seasons with the Buckeyes.
Still, Muzerall knows it isn’t necessarily easier to stay at the peak of the sport than it is to get there. While there should no longer be any question that Ohio State is among the elite programs in women’s college hockey, Muzerall has no plans to be complacent with just winning two championships. So while Muzerall wants her team to take some time to enjoy the goal it just accomplished, she’ll have a simple message for her returning players and staff when they begin their preparation for next season: “Don’t get comfortable.”
“Two is fantastic. And I want to push to obviously three and more. But it's going to take continued time and effort,” Muzerall said. “Because you don't want to be part of history, you want to continue to push and be the future as well.”
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Yes, we talk about Buckeye hoops this episode (and a Pistol natty, and Jesse Mendez winning a title), but I wanted to lead off with women's hockey for two reasons: first, Nadine Muzerall is significantly underpaid. She's the best coach at Ohio State, having transformed a moribund program into the best in the country in just a few years. Pay her!
Secondly, get these women out of the garage they currently play in and into a rink befitting their skills and success. Ohio State wrestling won a title and the Covelli Center sprung out of the ground overnight. Let's get that done for hockey.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
With Gene gone, I'm confident this gets done for the women and later for the men. To put Gene's dismissive attitude towards both hockey programs in perspective, the men have the lowest budget in the B1G. I'll bet that there's not another sport at Ohio State from football to fencing to field hockey that has the lowest budget in its league.
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Would the men's and women's programs draw similar enough crowds to use the same arena? Or is there enough requirement for ice time that multiple sheets are needed?
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