{"id":104300,"date":"2020-02-21T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?p=104300"},"modified":"2020-08-24T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:45:46","slug":"womens-di-college-hockey-weekend-picks-the-fight-for-the-wcha-title-comes-down-to-the-final-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2020\/02\/21\/womens-di-college-hockey-weekend-picks-the-fight-for-the-wcha-title-comes-down-to-the-final-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s DI College Hockey Weekend Picks: The fight for the WCHA title comes down to the final weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"ps_captionIns\" aria-describedby=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/img-show\/I0000VizCTdPRNl4\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo By: (c)2018 Matt Dewkett\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Minnesota-Wisconsin-Dewkett28.jpg\" alt=\" ((c)2018 Matt Dewkett)\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-ps-captionIns\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fight for the WCHA regular season title comes down to the final weekend for two familiar rivals as Wisconsin and Minnesota each hope to earn the crown and the first-round bye in the conference tournament. (Photo: 2018 Matt Dewkett)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>RPI at (1) Cornell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cornell continues their march to the postseason with another win. Unfortunately, that means RPI ends the season without having won a game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Union at (1) Cornell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s not much that seems capable of slowing the Big Red down right now. They\u2019ll get the win in this game, as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) Wisconsin at (9) Minnesota Duluth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Badgers took a pair of wins from the Bulldogs in the final series before the winter break, but UMD has improved since then while Wisconsin has had difficulty over the past few weeks. Wisconsin has a three point lead on Minnesota for the regular season title, so the Badgers have to get points from thes games. They should be able to carry some confidence from their 3-on-3 win against Ohio State on Sunday, but Wisconsin has to clean things up if they have any hope of beating the Bulldogs. I think we\u2019ll see a Wisconsin win and a tie, though I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see a split. I think we\u2019ll learn a lot about what kind of team the Badgers are when we see how they hit the ice on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minnesota State at (3) Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have certainly made the final weeks of the WCHA season more interesting. Aside from how much I love chaos, I also love how much MSU has grown and improved in recent years. This isn\u2019t a blip or attributed to one class. The team continues to build and grow and thanks to the work they\u2019re putting in, parity is much more prevalent in the WCHA. Minnesota is pushing for the regular season title and playing at home, so I don\u2019t know that the Mavericks get any points this weekend, but it\u2019s certainly not the foregone conclusion it once was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Merrimack vs (3) Northeastern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Huskies cruised to a 5-1 win over Merrimack just two weeks ago and there\u2019s no evidence these games will go any differently. Northeastern stumbled a bit last week and will want to get momentum back heading into the conference tournament. I expect they\u2019ll sweep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Cloud State at (5) Ohio State<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Buckeyes acquitted themselves well in Madison last weekend and shouldn\u2019t have any difficulty coming away with a sweep against St. Cloud this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown at (6) Princeton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tigers defeated Brown 4-1 to start February and this game isn\u2019t likely to have a different outcome. I expect Princeton to win again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yale at (6) Princeton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game was closer than Princeton would have liked when these two teams met a few weeks ago, as the Tigers eked out a 2-1 win. This should be another tightly-contested game, but I expect Princeton to get the win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(7) Clarkson at Harvard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clarkson\u2019s margin for error is non-existent and their NCAA hopes are hanging by the thinnest of threads. They need a pair of wins this weekend and I think they get them. They took down Harvard 4-0 a few weeks back and I\u2019d expect we\u2019ll see a similar outcome here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(7) Clarkson at Dartmouth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights were tripped up by Quinnipiac last week, but I think they return to form this weekend and close out the regular season with a win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connecticut at (8) Boston University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the moment, BU is 0.0030 behind Clarkson in the Pairwise. Assuming there are no upsets in conference tournaments, Clarkson would get an NCAA bid and BU wouldn\u2019t. With such a narrow margin, every goal and period are going to matter. The Terriers took down UConn 1-0 earlier this year. The Huskies have been up and down all season, beating higher-ranked teams and losing games to lesser opponents. It won\u2019t be an easy weekend sweep for Boston University, but I think they get the wins they need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yale at (10) Quinnipiac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats had a great win over Clarkson last weekend and are just two points behind Yale in the conference standings. Though it\u2019s not one of the games with big stakes, this should be one of the most interesting and fun to watch games this weekend. I\u2019ll take Quinnipiac at home, but it\u2019s really a toss-up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown at (10) Quinnipiac<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quinnipiac ends their season on a high note with a win over the Bears at home.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarkson and Boston University play for fractions of a point in the Pairwise while Wisconsin tries to hold off Minnesota to win the WCHA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":107939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[819],"coauthors":[823],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women&#039;s DI College Hockey Weekend Picks: The fight for the WCHA title comes down to the final weekend - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Clarkson and Boston University play for fractions of a point in the Pairwise while Wisconsin tries to hold off Minnesota to win the WCHA.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104300\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women&#039;s DI College Hockey Weekend Picks: The fight for the WCHA title comes down to the final weekend - 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