Todd D. Milewski | Wisconsin State Journal Repetition breeds familiarity and familiarity breeds contempt. So it has gone lately with the University of Wisconsin and Ohio State women’s hockey teams, which will meet again in a playoff scenario Saturday. The Badgers overcame the Buckeyes to win a 2019 Western Collegiate Hockey Association Final Faceoff semifinal game en route to the title. Ohio State won the 2020 championship game in overtime before UW returned the favor in 2021 then added a Frozen Four semifinal victory 11 days later last March. It’s a WCHA semifinal again this time between the teams, which have had enough opportunities to develop animus. Badgers leading scorer and fifth-year forward Daryl Watts said last month that the sides “don’t like each other very much,” and that was before the Buckeyes dropped 5-1 and 2-1 victories on UW to close the regular season. Badgers players weren’t made available…
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