2020-21 BIG TEN HOCKEY BIG TEN TOURNAMENT - QUARTERFINAL RELEASE Primary Contact: Megan Rowley, Assistant Director, Communications • Office: 847-696-1010 ext. 129 • E-mail: [email protected] • Twitter: @B1GHockey Secondary Contact: Leigh McGuirk, Bob Hammel Communications Intern • Office: 847-696-1010 ext. 142 • E-mail: [email protected] 2020-21 STANDINGS Conference Games All Games Win% Pts GP W L T OW-OL SW GF GA GP W L T Win% GF GA 1. Wisconsin# .729 52 24 17 6 1 1-1 0 92 52 28 19 8 1 .696 107 65 2. Minnesota .727 48 22 16 6 0 0-0 0 69 44 26 20 6 0 .769 99 51 3. Michigan .550 32 20 11 9 0 1-0 0 69 45 24 14 9 1 .604 85 48 4. Notre Dame .542 41 24 12 10 2 1-2 2 65 53 28 14 12 2 .536 81 72 BIG TEN TOURNAMENT 5. Penn State .389 20 18 7 11 0 2-1 0 48 68 20 9 11 0 .450 56 74 6. Ohio State .273 20 22 6 16 0 0-2 0 39 82 26 7 18 1 .288 53 97 SCHEDULE 7. Michigan State .250 15 22 5 16 1 2-1 0 32 70 26 7 17 2 .308 39 75 # Big Ten Champion SUNDAY, MARCH 14 - QUARTERFINALS GAME 1: #4 NOTRE DAME vs. #5 PENN STATE BIG TEN. BIG NEWS. Noon • The 2021 Big Ten Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament will open Sunday at the University of Notre Dame’s Compton Family Ice Big Ten Network, FOX Sports App Arena. Sunday will feature a trio of quarterfinals leading into Monday’s semifinals. The championship game is slated for 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday, with all six games carried live on BTN and the FOX Sports app. GAME 2: #2 MINNESOTA vs. #7 MICHIGAN STATE • As the top seed in the tournament, Wisconsin secured a bye to the semifinal round. Friday’s semifinals open with the 4 p.m. top-seeded Badgers battling the winner of Sunday’s Notre Dame-Penn State game. Monday’s second semifinal will feature Big Ten Network, FOX Sports App the winner of the Minnesota-Michigan State game facing the victor of Thursday’s Michigan-Ohio State contest. GAME 3: #3 MICHIGAN vs. #6 OHIO STATE • The winner of the Big Ten Tournament receives an automatic berth into the NCAA Championship, which culminates April 8-10 at the NCAA Frozen Four at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. 8:30 p.m. Big Ten Network, FOX Sports App • Over the first six years of the Big Ten Tournament, five different schools have claimed the tournament title: 2014 – Wisconsin (No. 2 seed) MONDAY, MARCH 15 - SEMIFINALS 2015 – Minnesota (No. 1) 2016 – Michigan (No. 2) 2017 – Penn State (No. 4) GAME 4: #1 WISCONSIN vs. Winner of Game 1 2018 – Notre Dame (No. 1) 4 p.m. 2019 – Notre Dame (No. 2) Big Ten Network, FOX Sports App • Wisconsin became the fifth different team win the Big Ten Championship over the past five years and fifth team overall since the Big Ten launched conference play in 2013-14: GAME 5: Winner of Game 2 vs. Winner of Game 3 Minnesota – 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 8:30 p.m. Notre Dame – 2018 Big Ten Network, FOX Sports App Ohio State – 2019 Penn State – 2020 Wisconsin – 2021 TUESDAY, MARCH 16 - CHAMPIONSHIP GAME • Three Big Ten teams appear in the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls this week. Minnesota leads GAME 6: Winner of Game 4 vs. Winner of Game 5 the conference at No.4/5, followed by Wisconsin at No. 5/4 and Michigan at No. 6/7. Notre Dame is receiving votes in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll. 8 p.m. Big Ten Network, FOX Sports App • With 43 points in 24 Big Ten games, Wisconsin forward Cole Caufield earned the conference scoring title for the second- straight season. Caufield paced all Big Ten players with 24 goals in conference play and added 19 assists. Caufield is the All times are ET first Big Ten skater to repeat as a scoring champion since the accolade’s inception in 2015. • Finalists were announced Thursday for 2020-21 Big Ten hockey individual awards. The list of finalists can be found on Page 2. The winners, along with All-Big Ten teams, will be announced on March 16. FOLLOW THE BIG TEN • Michigan’s Strauss Mann and Minnesota’s Jack LaFontaine were named among the nine finalists for the 2021 Mike Richter Award, which honors the most outstanding goaltender in NCAA men’s hockey. The eighth annual award winner will be announced at the 2021 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh. The Big Ten hockey page on bigten.org will feature sched- ules, statistics, standings and more. You can also keep • Five Big Ten skaters were named finalists for the 2020-21 Senior CLASS Award: Minnesota’s Jack LaFontaine, Brannon McManus and Scott Reedy, Notre Dame’s Matt Hellickson, and Penn State’s Alex Limoges. An acronym for Celebrating track of Big Ten hockey in real-time by following the con- Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the Senior CLASS Award honors the attributes of senior students in four ference on Twitter @B1GHockey and @BigTen or by be- areas: community, classroom, character and competition. The Senior CLASS Award winner will be announced during the coming a fan of the Big Ten Conference on Facebook and 2021 NCAA Men’s Frozen Final Four in April. receive exclusive updates. • Nine standouts representing five Big Ten programs are among the nominees for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given annually to the top NCAA Division I men’s ice hockey player in the nation. The list of nominees includes Michigan’s Kent Johnson, Owen Power and Cam York, Minnesota’s Jack LaFontaine, Notre Dame’s Alex Steeves, Penn State’s Alex FACEBOOK.COM/BIGTENCONFERENCE Limoges, and Wisconsin’s Cole Caufield, Dylan Holloway and Linus Weissbach. The Hobey Baker Memorial Award will be presented to the winner at the 2021 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh. @B1GHOCKEY OR @BIGTEN • Thirty-one Big Ten standouts headline a group of 106 NCAA players and recruits featured in NHL Central Scouting’s updated “Players to Watch” list for the 2021 NHL Draft. Michigan and Wisconsin tied for the lead among all schools with eight players listed, while Notre Dame followed in fifth with six. Michigan’s trio of freshmen – Matty Beniers, Kent Johnson and Owen Power – all earned “A” ratings as first-round candidates and lead a group of 11 current NCAA fresh- @BIGTEN men featured on the list. BIG LIFE. BIG STAGE. BIG TEN. The Big Ten Academic Alliance is an academic consortium of all 14 Big Ten universities, which is widely considered to be the model for effective and voluntary collaboration among top research universities. BIG TEN HOCKEY WEEKLY RELEASE 2 BIG TEN IN THE POLLS BIG TEN AWARD FINALISTS USCHO.com Division I Poll - March 8 USA Today/USA Hockey Division I Poll - March 8 Last Last Rank School (Votes) Record Points Poll Rank School (Votes) Record Points Poll Finalists were announced Tuesday for 2020-21 1. Boston College (23) 16- 4-1 777 2 1. Boston College (18) 16-4-1 488 2 2. North Dakota (12) 18- 5-1 760 1 2. North Dakota (10) 18-5-1 470 1 Big Ten hockey individual awards. The winners, 3. Minnesota State (5) 18- 3-1 711 4 3. Minnesota State (6) 18-3-1 451 4 4. MINNESOTA 20- 6-0 673 3 4. WISCONSIN 19-8-1 397 5 along with All-Big Ten teams, will be announced 5. WISCONSIN 19- 8-1 667 5 5. MINNESOTA 20-6-0 395 3 on March 16. 6. MICHIGAN 14- 9-1 558 7 6. St. Cloud State 15-9-0 307 8 7. Massachusetts 13- 5-4 548 6 7. MICHIGAN 14-9-1 302 7 8. St. Cloud 15- 9-0 539 8 8. Massachusetts 13-5-4 286 6 9. Boston University 10- 3-1 451 10 9. Minnesota Duluth 13-9-2 213 9 2020-21 Big Ten Hockey Award Finalists Minnesota Duluth 13- 9-2 451 9 10. Boston University 10-3-1 204 11 11. Omaha 14- 9-1 403 12 11. Quinnipiac 17-6-4 177 10 12. Quinnipiac 17- 6-4 383 11 12. Nebraska-Omaha 14-9-1 161 12 Player of the Year: 13. Bowling Green 19- 8-1 299 13 13. Bowling Green State 19-8-1 70 13 14. Clarkson 11- 7-4 240 14 14. Clarkson 11-7-4 55 14 Cam York, Michigan 15. Bemidji State 13- 8-3 182 17 15. AIC 13-3-0 38 15 16. AIC 13- 3-0 181 16 Jack LaFontaine, Minnesota 17. Providence 10- 8-5 148 15 Receiving Votes: Lake Superior State, 25; Bemidji State, Cole Caufield, Wisconsin 18. Lake Superior 15- 6-3 107 20 15; Providence College, 10; Northeastern, 6; NOTRE 19. Notre Dame 14-12-2 91 NR DAME, 6; Connecticut, 3; Army West Point, 1. 20. Northeastern 9- 8-3 87 18 Defensive Player of the Year: Receiving Votes: Michigan Tech 44, Army 41, Connecticut 35, Robert Morris 17, Denver 5, Western Michigan 2. 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