July 24, 2026

Wisconsin crushes Ohio State's Big Ten men's hockey title hopes

No. 10 Ohio State’s chances of winning a Big Ten men’s hockey title are over. Visiting Wisconsin edged the Buckeyes 3-2 on Friday night, taking the lead for good on Max Zimmer’s power-play goal at 14 minutes, 51 seconds of the third period. The Buckeyes remain four points behind first-place Penn State, idle this weekend, and can’t catch the Nittany Lions with one conference game left. The Buckeyes scored 1:43 in on Tanner Laczynski’s goal and again with 1:06 left in the second on Ronnie Hein’s tally. In between the Badgers got goals five minutes apart in the second period from Alex Turcotte and Brock Caufield. Daniel Lebedeff had 35 saves for Wisconsin, the same number Tommy Nappier made for Ohio State. Michigan State 3, Notre Dame 1: Logan Lambdin had a goal and an assist in the second period for the visiting Spartans against the Irish, who are tied…

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