Here are some interesting numbers from the 21-year history of the Badger Hockey Showdown, which came to a close Sunday with Wisconsin beating Yale in a shootout for the title:<\/p>\n
34<\/strong> — Teams that have played in the tournament. Bowling Green and Yale were the most frequently invited guests, each appearing four times.<\/p>\n 18 <\/strong>— U.S. states that have been represented by a team in the tournament.<\/p>\n 6<\/strong> — Teams from Massachusetts that have played in the tournament (Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts-Lowell, Northeastern and Merrimack). Two states have had five each — Michigan (Ferris State, Lake Superior State, Northern Michigan, Western Michigan and Wayne State) and New York (Clarkson, Colgate, Cornell, St. Lawrence and Union). Two states have had two — Ohio (Bowling Green and Miami) and Rhode Island (Brown and Providence). Thirteen states have had one — Alaska (Alaska-Fairbanks), Nebraska (Nebraska-Omaha), Indiana (Notre Dame), Alabama (Alabama-Huntsville), New Jersey (Princeton), Vermont (Vermont), Connecticut (Yale), Maine (Maine), New Hampshire (New Hampshire), Colorado (Colorado College), Minnesota (Minnesota-Duluth), North Dakota (North Dakota) and Wisconsin (Wisconsin).<\/p>\n 2<\/strong> — Nations that have been represented by a team in the tournament. The University of Toronto played in 1991.<\/p>\n 1<\/strong> — Teams that played in the tournament as a member of two different conferences. Northern Michigan was in the WCHA when it appeared in 1993 and in the CCHA in 1997, 2002 and 2005.<\/p>\n 550,281<\/strong> — All-time attendance for 42 days of the tournament, an average of 13,102 per day.<\/p>\n 617<\/strong> — Goals scored in the tournament’s 84 games, an average of 7.3 per game.<\/p>\n 5<\/strong> — Record for most goals scored by one player in one tournament. Bowling Green’s Brian Holzinger potted five in the 1994 tournament.<\/p>\n 38<\/strong> — Most goals scored in a single tournament, done in 1992 and 1995. Boston University won the tournament both times.<\/p>\n 21<\/strong> — Fewest goals scored in a single tournament, done in 1998, 2002 and 2006.<\/p>\n 11<\/strong> — Tournament record for goals in a game, set by New Hampshire in an 11-3 victory over Brown in the 2001 title game.<\/p>\n 105<\/strong> — Most shots on goal by a team in one tournament. North Dakota had 40 in a loss to Boston University and 65 in a victory over Princeton in 2000.<\/p>\n 5<\/strong> — Times a tournament game ended in a shootout following a tie. Wisconsin took part in all five, going 4-1 in the shootout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some interesting numbers from the 21-year history of the Badger Hockey Showdown, which came to a close Sunday with Wisconsin beating Yale in a shootout for the title: 34 — Teams that have played in the tournament. Bowling Green and Yale were the most frequently invited guests, each appearing four times. 18 — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1444],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n