College Hockey Weekly Report Wisconsin shines in Lambeau

Wisconsin and Ohio State played in one of the biggest game of the year. Well thats according to the attendence, but it was still a big game with both teams looking to improve their NCAA tournament resume.

The Badgers prevailed in this game 4-2 with goals from Adam Burish in the first period to go up 1-0. Ohio State tied it at 1 with a goal from Dave Barton, about 5 minutes later the Badgers re-gained the lead at 2-1 with a goal from Kyle Klubertanz. Wisconsin would gain a 3-1 lead with a goal from Andrew Joudrey. Ohio State made it 3-2 with about 4 minutes left in the game but Robbie Earl would get an empty net goal as the Badgers took the 4-2 win.

After the game there were a few Badger players doing the "Lambeau Leap" into the crowd. The attendence was over 41,000 the second best attendence ever in college hockey only behind the Michigan Michigan State game played at Spartan Stadium in October, 2001 where the attendence was over 74,000.

In other college hockey action this weekend:

Denver moved ahead in the WCHA standings with a sweep of Minnesota State.

Minnesota went 1-0-1 at Michigan Tech during the winter carnival.

Maine got 3 key points against Vermont at Burlington. The Black Bears will be looking forward to hosting Boston College for 2 this weekend.

And Lake Superior and Michigan split in Ann Arbor.

Next weeks games include:

Boston College and Maine will play each other at Alfond Arena. Maine has already defeated Boston College earlier in the year.

Boston University will play New Hampshire as BU will look to move up the Hockey East standings.

The two top teams in the WCHA will play each other as Minnesota will host Denver.

Holy Cross will look to improve on its lead in the Atlantic Hockey standings as they will face Mercyhurst.

And two key games in the CCHA as Michigan travels to Nebraska-Omaha, and Miami will travel to Michigan State.

Those games and more will be in the college hockey preview. And do not forget Bracketology Wednesday week 6 as a couple of changes have been made for this weeks bracket.