College Hockey Weekly Report Wisconsin and BU come up big while Quinnipiac is also making noise.

Wisconsin sweeping North Dakota at Grand Forks, BU taking 2 from Hockey East powers, and Quinnipiac wins their first two ever ECACHL games.

Lets start with Wisconsin. They are off to a 5-0-1 start in the WCHA. 2 of those victories came this weekend in North Dakota as they won twice at one of the toughest places to play in the country the Ralph Englestad Arena. On Friday the Badgers defeated the Fighting Sioux 4-2. Robbie Earl tallied a goal and two assists while Brian Elliott stopped 28 of 30 shots by North Dakota. On Saturday Wisconsin tallied 46 including 14 shots in the first period scoring 3 goals during that span. Even though Jordan Parise was spectacular in goal making 42 saves, the Sioux could not find any offense as Brian Elliott made 26 saves in the 4-1 victory.

Boston University regrouped after going 1-2 in October. On Friday night against Vermont Peter McArthur scored 2 goals helping the Terriers defeat the Cattamounts 4-2. John Curry made 19 saves in the victory. After passing test #1 defeating the unbeaten Vermont team, they had to pass test #2 on Sunday when they traveled to Oreno to face the Maine Black Bears. After letting up a power play goal (scored by Greg Moore), John Curry would not let up another goal. In fact he stopped all 19 shots in the third period. BU would capitalize on the good goaltending scoring 2 in the second period as they came up with a huge win at Oreno 2-1. Freshman Jason Lawrence scored his first career goal in the victory.

And Quinnipiac opened up their inagural season in the ECACHL defeating Harvard and Dartmouth. Friday saw the Bobcats score 3 power play goals including a 5 on 3 goal as they defeated the Crimson 5-2 at the Hartford Civic Center. Goaltender Bud Fisher made 35 saves in the victory. The next night against Dartmouth, Mark Van Vilet scored 2 goals and added an assist as the Bobcats defeated the Big Green in a 7-5 victory. Both teams used 2 goaltenders in the game.

In other college hockey action this weekend:

Minnesota only gained 1 point against struggling Minnesota-Duluth as the Bulldogs and Gophers tied on Friday, while UMD took the game on Saturday getting some much needed points.

Ohio State continues to struggle after being ranked #4 pre-season as they were swept by Miami (Ohio).

Michigan took two from Notre Dame.

And the new #1 team in the country the Colorado College Tigers swept St. Cloud State continuing their success in league play.

Next weeks games:

Boston University will look to continue to knock off Hockey East powers as the Wildcats of New Hampshire will come to Agganis Arena on Friday and will travel to UMASS on Saturday.

In the ECACHL Cornell and Harvard will continue their rivalry. The last two champions of the ECACHL happens to be those two teams as Harvard won in 2002 (defeating Cornell) and 2004 while Cornell won in 2003 and 2005 defeating Harvard in both championship games.

Boston College will look to win on the road again as they will face Vermont on Sunday.

And the big weekend series will be in the WCHA as Colorado College and Wisconsin battle it out (home and home) for WCHA supremacy (well for one week anyway).