A slightly edited WCHA news release, with added comments:
Wisconsin, which has moved up to No. 2 in the latest national ratings, is 27-10-4 overall and has won three in a row going into the Frozen Four. The Badgers are 19-5-3 since Dec. 1.
You may remember, the Gophers gave Wisconsin all they could handle the last weekend of the regular season. The U lost to Wisconsin 3-2 at Target Center on the first Friday in March -- two Minnesota goals were disallowed -- then beat the Badgers 5-1 in a Sunday matinee at Mariucci.
But one team is still playing, the other has put its skates away long ago it seems like.
Next, Wisconsin faces the Rochester Institute of Technology (28-11-1) in the first national semifinal in Detroit on Thursday, April 8, at 4 p.m.
No. 9 RIT was the regular season champion of the Atlantic Hockey Association and won the AHA's tournament and has a 12-game winning streak.
The second national semifinal on April 8 at Ford Field will feature Boston College (27-10-3) against Miami (29-7-7) at 7:30 p.m. The No. 3 Eagles are unbeaten over their last 11 games (10-0-1).
No. 1-ranked Miami was the regular season champion of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) and has won three straight.
WCHA teams have won a record 36 national championships since the league's founding in 1951, with the most recent being in 2006 by Wisconsin in Milwaukee. A WCHA-member team has also finished as the national runner-up 27 times.
