Live updates: North Dakota vs. Wisconsin in the Men’s Frozen Four
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Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, the final cease in the 2026 DI males’s hockey season. Four groups stay in the hunt for a championship: Denver, North Dakota, Michigan and Wisconsin. We’ll be on-site all weekend supplying you with behind-the-scenes protection and dwell updates from T-Mobile Arena. Follow alongside proper right here on NCAA.com to be sure to catch all the motion.
This 12 months’s discipline is stacked with school hockey blue bloods, with 33 mixed nationwide championships between the 4 groups. Denver is the winningest staff all-time with 10 nationwide titles, whereas Michigan follows intently behind with 9. North Dakota brings eight, and Wisconsin has six. Denver is the most up-to-date champion and the most dominant of the 4 in latest years with championships in 2017, 2022 and 2024.
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Despite its historic success, Michigan has not gained a nationwide championship since 1998, when Marty Turco final donned the Maize and Gold. For Wolverine followers, goaltender Jack Ivankovic reminds them of Turks, mismatched pads and all. Maybe he can carry a title again to Ann Arbor.
North Dakota is 10 years faraway from its final title, profitable in 2016, led by the “CBS line” of Drake Caggiula, Brock Boeser and Nick Schmaltz that terrorized opposing defenses. The present iteration of the Fighting Hawks boasts a great deal of veteran expertise blended with freshman expertise that stifles opponents’ forwards and overwhelms their defensemen β Nodak has outscored opponents 8-0 in his two event video games to date. Can goalie Jan Ε punar and the Hawks preserve persevering with their dominance and produce a trophy again to Grand Forks?
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Wisconsin is the odd duck in Vegas β the Badgers are the solely staff in the discipline to complete outdoors the top-5 in the NPI, and so they almost missed the event at the palms of bid stealers in different conferences. But they’re right here. A 5-1 drubbing of Dartmouth and a surprising third-period comeback over Michigan State shocked the hockey world, punching Wisconsin’s ticket to Las Vegas. Are they enjoying with home cash? Who is aware of, however the Badgers know they belong right here. as they seek for fortunate title No. 7.
That brings us to Denver. The Pioneers flew underneath the radar for a lot of this season, quietly amassing a 27-11-3 file however remaining one among the least-talked about contenders out of the NCHC. But they’re as soon as once more returning to their rightful place in the NCAA event, and from there, David Carle’s squad did which Carle groups do finest β win in the playoffs. They shut out Cornell and knocked off the defending champion Western Michigan β handily at that. Freshman goalie Johnny Hicks has but to lose a recreation, going 14-0-1 and permitting simply 20 targets in 15 video games since taking up the beginning job.
So right here we’re in Vegas, the hockey capital of the world in this second weekend in April. To the Badgers, Hawks, Wolverines and Pios: are you feeling fortunate?
