Ohio State Women's Ice Hockey (2022 WCHA Champions, 2022, 2024 National Champions)

[Jake]

WTF is this shit?

The Buckeyes' reward for going to Minnesota and winning the WCHA tournament is another trip to Minnesota to play the Gophers in the NCAAs.

The game will be at 5:00 ET on 3/14.

 

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[ORD_Buckeye]

Outstanding. Wiscy has dominated in recent years. This is a huge thing for this program. Obligatory Tessa Bonhomme pic.

 

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2020 NC women's ice hockey championship bracket announced

The National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Committee announced today the field of eight teams that will compete in the 20th National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey Championship. Quarterfinal competition will be conducted on the campuses of the participating institutions, while the 2020 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four will be hosted by Boston University on March 20 and 22 at Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts.

Eight teams are selected for the championship. Of the eight teams, the top four teams are seeded.

Four conferences were awarded automatic bids for the 2020 tournament. The remaining four teams were selected at-large. The automatic qualifying conferences and their representatives are College Hockey America, Mercyhurst University; ECAC Hockey, Princeton University; Hockey East Association, Northeastern University; and Western Collegiate Hockey Association, The Ohio State University. Clarkson University, Cornell University, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison were selected as at-large teams.

The quarterfinals will be played Saturday, March 14 with two teams competing at each of the four quarterfinal sites. The winning team from each quarterfinal will advance to the 2020 NCAA Women’s Frozen Four.

Cornell enters the tournament as the No. 1 seed and will host Mercyhurst. Wisconsin, the No. 2 seed, will host Clarkson. Northeastern enters the tournament as the No. 3 seed and will host Princeton. Minnesota, the No. 4 seed, will host Ohio State. All game times will be updated and posted on NCAA.com.

The semifinal games will be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network at 4 and 7 p.m. ET, Friday, March 20. The national championship game will take place at 4:30 p.m. ET, Sunday, March 22 and will also be broadcast live on the Big Ten Network.

Entire article: https://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey...ens-ice-hockey-championship-bracket-announced

Brackets: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/icehockey-women/nc/2020?utm_campaign=inline-article

 

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The seedings are complete fucking bullshit. Weren't we 5th in the country going into the tournament? We beat Wiscy and Minny and stay at fifth.

 

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5. JINCY DUNNE, WOMEN’S HOCKEY
The only repeat member of the top 10 from last year’s list, Dunne earned first-team All-American honors and WCHA Defensive Player of the Year honors for the second season in a row, all the while leading the Buckeyes to their first-ever conference championship as a third-year captain.

An elite defenseman who also scored 31 points (seven goals, 24 assists) to help lead Ohio State to its best record (24-8-6) in program history and an NCAA Tournament berth, Dunne concludes her collegiate career as arguably Ohio State’s best women’s hockey player ever, having become the Buckeyes’ first two-time first-team All-American since the team started play in 1999-2000.

9. EMMA MALTAIS, WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Maltais set a new Ohio State record and ranked in the top 10 nationally by scoring 59 points this season, including 40 assists, which also set a new school record and ranked in the top five in the country. She helped lead the Buckeyes to their first WCHA title in school history.

An All-WCHA first-team selection for the third year in a row, Maltais also earned second-team All-American honors and was selected as one of 10 finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, which honors the best player in women’s college hockey.

 

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY: DUNNE, MUZERALL REFLECT ON COVID-19 ENDING NATIONAL TITLE HOPES

For the first time in program history, members of the Ohio State women’s hockey team hoisted the Western Collegiate Hockey Association championship trophy above their heads March 8, and the team was poised for more firsts thereafter.

Having knocked off the No. 2 and No. 3 teams in the country on back-to-back days to secure the conference tournament, the Buckeyes proved they had a shot to go undefeated the rest of the way to contend for a national title.

That dream ran short, however, when the NCAA canceled the remaining winter and spring sports seasons March 12 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

“We weren’t thinking about the coronavirus at all. We were thinking about practice, getting to the national championship and winning it,” head coach Nadine Muzerall said. “Our girls were at the airport and at the gates and the bags are loaded on the plane and we had to get the call to go back to campus.”

Redshirt senior defenseman Jincy Dunne said that although the team was aware of the news and travel and health precautions, the Buckeyes never thought COVID-19 would interfere with their season.

Ohio State was three games shy of competing for its first national championship, and after beating the winners of 10 of the past 15 NCAA titles in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Ohio State could not have been hotter.

With a 24-8-6 record, the Buckeyes accomplished a program-best .711 winning percentage. Ohio State finished the season ranked No. 4, putting it ahead of women’s hockey’s most decorated program in Minnesota.

“What made it more sweet to win was that it’s the toughest conference in the country, playing back to back,” Muzerall said. “It’s a lot of emotionally draining and mentally draining, but it’s how we won. It’s very hard to beat a team like Minnesota, being down three different times in the game and come back to win it.”

Entire article: https://www.thelantern.com/2020/04/...lect-on-covid-19-ending-national-title-hopes/