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How to watch Wisconsin vs. Ohio State Big Ten hockey quarterfinals

How to watch Wisconsin vs Ohio State in the Big Ten

There is nothing more exciting in all of sports than playoff hockey. Time to lock in as the Big Ten postseason has arrived.

The Big Ten hockey tournament gets underway this weekend, which includes a quarterfinal clash between Wisconsin and Ohio State.

WATCH: 2024 Big Ten Hockey Tournament on B1G+

The second-seeded Badgers will host the Buckeyes for the best-of-three series at the Kohl Center in Wisconsin. Games are scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday, if necessary.

Wisconsin (25-9-2) enters the tournament as the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten bracket and is the No. 5 ranked squad in the country. Meanwhile, Ohio State (12-18-4) is the No. 7 seed.

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As every sports fan knows, records only mean so much when we get to the postseason.

In December, the Badgers swept the Buckeyes. Then during their next weekend series in February, Ohio State took three of the four points up for grabs, including an overtime win. That ended up being costly for Wisconsin as it gave Michigan State the regular season conference championship.

The stage is set for a huge weekend of hockey in the Big Ten, here’s how to catch all the action:

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How to watch Wisconsin vs. Ohio State Big Ten hockey quarterfinals

How to watch Wisconsin vs Ohio State in the Big Ten

There is nothing more exciting in all of sports than playoff hockey. Time to lock in as the Big Ten postseason has arrived.

The Big Ten hockey tournament gets underway this weekend, which includes a quarterfinal clash between Wisconsin and Ohio State.

WATCH: 2024 Big Ten Hockey Tournament on B1G+

The second-seeded Badgers will host the Buckeyes for the best-of-three series at the Kohl Center in Wisconsin. Games are scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday, if necessary.

Wisconsin (25-9-2) enters the tournament as the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten bracket and is the No. 5 ranked squad in the country. Meanwhile, Ohio State (12-18-4) is the No. 7 seed.

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As every sports fan knows, records only mean so much when we get to the postseason.

In December, the Badgers swept the Buckeyes. Then during their next weekend series in February, Ohio State took three of the four points up for grabs, including an overtime win. That ended up being costly for Wisconsin as it gave Michigan State the regular season conference championship.

The stage is set for a huge weekend of hockey in the Big Ten, here’s how to catch all the action:

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First round of Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments only on one streaming service

More streaming-only games on the horizon:

The first round of the 2024 Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be exclusively broadcast on Peacock, according to a release from NBC Sports.

The women’s tournament began Wednesday, March 6, while the men’s tournament tips off Wednesday, March 13.

The first round of each tournament only includes games between the conference’s bottom four teams — No. 11 vs No. 14 and No. 12 vs No. 13 specifically.

Related: ESPN Bracketology: Latest update on Wisconsin entering final stretch

The second round is where most of the real action begins, and is where Wisconsin is currently slated in both brackets.

The Wisconsin women’s team is the No. 10 seed entering the tournament and is scheduled to face No. 7 Penn State at 5:30 p.m. central on Thursday, March 7.

The Wisconsin men’s team, meanwhile, is currently the No. 5 seed with a few conference games remaining. A 2-0 record could bring them to the double-bye category and have them avoid the second round entirely.

Either way, neither Badger basketball team will be playing its Big Ten Tournament contest on Peacock.

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Michigan State women’s basketball the No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament

Michigan State women’s basketball the No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament

The Big Ten Tournament starts today, and Michigan State women’s basketball has a favorable seed this year, coming in at No. 4.

The Spartans will have a bye until the quarterfinals round, where they will either face Northwestern, Purdue, or Nebraska. MSU has beaten Purdue and Northwestern, but they do have a loss to Nebraska.

MSU will play on Friday on the Big Ten Network. You can see the TV schedule for Friday below:

Quarterfinals: Friday, March 8

  • Game 7: No. 1 Ohio State vs. Game 3 winner | 11:30 a.m. CT | Big Ten Network, Fubo
  • Game 8: No. 4 Michigan State vs. Game 4 winner | 25 minutes after Game 7 | Big Ten Network, Fubo
  • Game 9: No. 2 Iowa vs. Game 5 winner | 5:30 p.m. CT | Big Ten Network, Fubo
  • Game 10: No. 3 Indiana vs. Game 6 winner | 25 minutes after Game 9 | Big Ten Network, Fubo

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Big Ten Tournament: Rutgers women’s basketball is looking to make a run

Rutgers women’s basketball plays in the Big Ten Tournament against Minnesota.

On Wednesday night, Rutgers women’s basketball will take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Neither team exactly comes into the conference tournament with momentum.

Both Rutgers and Minnesota have each won one time in their last five games. Rutgers only win in that span came against Minnesota on February 13.

As Rutgers looks to win its second straight against Minnesota, they will need Destiny Adams and Erica Lafayette to have big nights. In her last five games, Adams has been a points machine with at least double-digit points every game during that span. She has gotten help from Lafayette, who has scored 31 combined points in her last two games.

 

However, they will have their hands full with Mara Braun. The Golden Gophers star is averaging a team-high 17.8 points per game. In Minnesota’s loss to Illinois on Sunday, Braun was a bright spot with 18 points and five rebounds.

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Additionally, Rutgers must play a complete game to finish the season strong. They have struggled to get back into games after getting off to slow starts. That is something that Minnesota will take advantage of.

 

Nebraska falls late to Illinois in final regular season game

The Huskers concluded the regular season with a road trip to Illinois for a clash with the Fighting Illini.

The Huskers concluded the regular season with a road trip to Illinois for a clash with the Fighting Illini. Nebraska held a seven-point lead halfway through the fourth quarter, but Illinois came back and took the lead and the win.

The Fighting Illini held the lead for over half of the game. The Huskers clawed their way back into the game but did not get a firm grip on the lead until the fourth.

Jaz Shelley contributed a team-high and season-high 23 points in the loss. This is just Shelley’s third 20-point game of the season. She also finished the afternoon with a team-high eight assists. Alexis Markowski and Natalie Potts also finished in double-digits for Nebraska, each scoring 14 points.

Nebraska concludes the regular season with a 19-10 overall record and an 11-7 conference record. The Huskers drop to fifth in the conference standings and, if they stay there, will begin Big Ten Tournament action on Thursday afternoon. The game will follow the 11:30 a.m. game and can be viewed on the Big Ten Network

Big Ten announces change to conference basketball tournament structure

Big Ten announces change to conference basketball tournament structure

The Big Ten Conference basketball tournament will expand from 14 schools to 15 next season, according to an announcement from the league.

The change corresponds with USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington joining the conference — expanding the number of member schools from 14 to 18. The move to a 15-team tournament does mean that three schools per year will miss out on the tournament going forward — something that wasn’t the case before the conference expanded.

The new tournament model will need to follow the previous one of having several schools with byes and a few with double-byes. It is organized so the 14th and 15th entries have the toughest road to the championship, unlike the NCAA Tournament’s even model.

This news obviously affects the Wisconsin basketball program a bit with the  seeding in the conference tournament and possible opponents. But the Badgers do not ever occupy the conference’s cellar, ensuring they’ll make the cut pretty much every season.

Consider this just one drop out of a large cascade of changes coming to collegiate athletics over the next few years.

Report: Big Ten considering limited conference basketball tournament after expansion

Report: Big Ten considering limited conference basketball tournament after expansion

Here’s something that won’t matter for another year and a half. CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein reported earlier today that the Big Ten is moving towards restricting its conference tournament to 14-15 teams once the conference expands to 18 during the 2024-25 season.

Put in other words: The Big Ten is expanding to 18 schools for the 2024 football season and 2024-25 basketball season. Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC are joining the conference, if you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years.

At that point, the Big Ten is moving towards restricting its end-of-season basketball tournament to only 14-15 teams, as it is currently formatted. That would leave 3-4 schools out of the tournament, depending on the regular season standings.

This may not be decided on for some time, and again won’t affect the sport for a year and a half. But with UCLA (No. 32 in KenPom), USC (No. 30), Washington (No. 59) and Oregon (No. 51) joining, there is sure to be continued separation between the top of the conference and the bottom.

That separation should make this decision easy, as a 18-team tournament would be a bit excessive before the NCAA Tournament begins. Rothstein’s reported solution that makes a ton of sense as we enter into the new world of the Big Ten.

Rick Heller confident in possibility of Iowa baseball’s Omaha return

After its stinging loss to Maryland in the Big Ten title game, Rick Heller said he thinks his team has the goods to get back to Omaha.

After its stinging 4-0 loss to the Maryland Terrapins in the 2023 Big Ten Tournament’s championship game, Iowa head baseball coach Rick Heller pointed out some of the positives to On3’s Kyle Huesmann of Hawkeye Report.

“The good thing about this is that it’s not a goodbye this year and that’s the hard part when you lose a game like this if you’re not going. Then, it’s goodbye to a lot of the guys who won’t be coming back and it’s a really sad emotional trip home. It’s not going to be a very fun bus ride home, but when the sun comes up tomorrow it’s going to be gone and we’ll meet and gather and start preparing as soon as we know where we’re going.

“It’ll be a happy day and a reward for an incredible season for a bunch of guys who brought it every single day from day one and have overcome so much here in the last 12-14 games. I believe that this team can be back here (in Omaha) in a couple of weeks if we play like we’re capable of,” Heller said.

Iowa (42-14, 15-8 Big Ten) has already had a historic season. The Hawkeyes’ 42 wins trails only the 1981 team’s 44 wins for the most in school history. This group also joined the 1977, 1981, 1985 and 2015 squads as Iowa baseball teams that eclipsed the 40-win mark.

The Hawkeyes are a lock for an at-large bid into the 2023 NCAA Tournament and the world will find out the Hawks’ fate tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN2. Fans can also stream the bracket reveal on WatchESPN.

The sixteen regional hosts were announced this evening: Auburn, LSU, Virginia, Clemson, South Carolina, Coastal Carolina, Miami, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Oklahoma State, Indiana State, Alabama, and Wake Forest.

While the championship game against Maryland didn’t go the Hawkeyes’ way, fans still took to social media to celebrate a brilliant Big Ten Tournament run one final time. Here’s some of the sensational still photos from the 2023 Big Ten Championship game that was.

Social media salutes Hawkeyes’ Big Ten Tournament run, react to championship game loss

A terrific run through the Big Ten Tournament ended with a championship game loss versus Maryland. Hawkeye fans saluted Iowa’s tourney run.

The Iowa Hawkeyes had their chances early, but, ultimately, it was just the Maryland Terrapins’ day.

Maryland used a pair of fifth-inning homers to open up the scoring and eventually top the Hawkeyes, 4-0, in the 2023 Big Ten Baseball Tournament’s championship game.

Maryland’s Kevin Keister lifted a 2-1 pitch from Iowa’s Jack Whitlock past the left field fence for a two-run shot to get the scoring started in the fifth. Several batters later, Nick Lorusso also sent a home run out to left to make it 3-0 Terps.

Jacob Orr added an RBI single to left center in the sixth to plate Eddie Hacopian for the game’s final run.

Though Whitlock surrendered those two homers in the fifth, it looked earlier like he was set to be the hero for Iowa again. Called upon with the bases loaded in the third, Whitlock slammed the door shut to keep the game scoreless at that point when he sat down Ian Petrutz swinging on just three pitches.

Alas, Iowa just never totally found the offense in this one. It looked like the Hawks were about to get off to a great start, too.

Iowa started with a Sam Petersen walk and a Brennen Dorighi single in the first with just one away. Maryland’s Ryan Van Buren left those two stranded for the Hawks after Raider Tello lined out to right and Sam Hojnar grounded out to second.

The Hawkeyes got two more runners aboard in the second off one-out singles from Kyle Huckstorf and Brayden Frazier, but that threat was once again averted after Van Buren got Cade Moss and Ben Wilmes to fly out.

In the third, Tello doubled with two outs off new Maryland pitcher Andrew Johnson, but then Hojnar struck out looking to end the inning.

Iowa’s best threat then came in the fourth. Michael Seegers and Huckstorf both walked to start the inning. Another scoring chance went by the wayside after Frazier grounded into a double play and then Moss grounded out to second.

Iowa didn’t have another base runner until Frazier’s seventh-inning walk. Moss grounded into a double play where the Terps stepped on first base and then threw down to second base in time to tag out Frazier and end another Hawkeye chance.

Tello led off the ninth with a single, but a Hojnar strikeout and Seegers hitting into one final double play ended it.

Naturally, Hawkeye fans were disappointed that a second all-time Big Ten Tournament title instead went to Maryland. Here were the best live reactions and a tip of the cap to a great Iowa tourney run.

Plus, believe it or not, a couple of Hawkeye highlights as well.

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