No. 2 Ohio State Set for Frozen Four Semifinal vs. No. 3 Cornell

No. 2 Ohio State vs. No. 3 Cornell
Date: March 21, 2025
Time: 5 p.m.
Venue: Ridder Arena
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: OhioStateBuckeyes.com
Rosters: Ohio State | Cornell
Game Notes: Ohio State | Cornell
Tournament Central: Frozen Four

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The No. 2 seed Ohio State women's hockey is set to meet No. 3 seed Cornell in the 2025 Frozen Four semifinals Friday, March 21 at 5 p.m. The Buckeyes (28-7-3, 19-6-3 WCHA) and Big Red (25-4-5, 16-2-4 ECAC) play for a spot in Sunday's national title game at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis, Minn.

The game will be streamed on ESPN+ (subscription required) with Jason Ross Jr. A.J. Mleczko and Blake Bolden on the call. Live stats can be found on OhioStateBuckeyes.com.

The second semifinal is set for 8:30 p.m. between No. 1 Wisconsin and No. 4 Minnesota.

Ohio State in the NC Women's Ice Hockey Tournament

Ohio State advanced to the Frozen Four with a 6-1 win over St. Lawrence in last Saturday's regional final in Columbus.
This year marks the Buckeyes' fifth consecutive trip to the Frozen Four. The team has been to six Frozen Fours in program history – 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 – with all of them occurring during Nadine Muzerall's nine-year tenure as head coach.
Ohio State is now 11-3 all-time in the NCAA tournament.

Buckeyes in a Nutshell

Ohio State is led in scoring by sophomore forward duo Jocelyn Amos and Joy Dunne. Amos leads the team with 27 goals on the season while Dunne has a team-high 58 points and 32 assists. Amos is the team's second 50-point scorer while Dunne closely follows Amos with 26 goals. The pair is in the top 10 nationally in goals per game.
Amos and Dunne also lead the team on the power play with 18 and 17 points, respectively, on the player advantage. Amos has scored a nation-leading 10 power play goals on the year.
Dunne, a 2025 Patty Kazmaier Top 10 Finalist, recorded her 100th career point in last weekend's regional final win. She is the fastest player to hit the century mark in program history with 77 games played for her career.
Amos is one of the top players in the country from the faceoff dot. She has 486 wins at the dot for a .679 win percentage. She is third in the country in wins and is
In net for the Buckeyes, Amanda Thiele has played in 27 games and started 26 on the year. She is 19-6-2 with a .884 save percentage. She enters the Frozen Four with a 6-1-0 record in seven NC tournament games played for her career.
Junior defender Emma Peschel has blocked a team-high 40 shots. She leads a Buckeye blue line unit that has held its opponents to under 19 shots per game and just 2.03 goals per game.
Seventeen of Ohio State's 18 skaters have recorded multiple points on the season. Fifteen of those student-athletes have multiple goals.
Amos, Dunne and Makenna Webster – who played on the same line in the regional final win over St. Lawrence – have each recorded at least a point in all four of the Buckeyes' postseason games this year.
Ohio State enters the final weekend of the season in the top five nationally in assists (250), goals (148), points (398), scoring margin (1.87), scoring offense (3.89), short-handed goals (7) and faceoff win percentage (.584).
The bench boss for the Buckeyes is ninth-year head coach Nadine Muzerall. She is the program's winningest coach with a record of 223-80-22. All of the team's NCAA tournament appearances have been reached in Muzerall's career at Ohio State. She was recently named a finalist for the CCM/AHCA Coach of the Year award.

Series History – Buckeyes vs. Big Red

Friday's meeting between Ohio State and Cornell is the eighth in the all-time series.
Ohio State owns a 4-3-0 edge in the series.
The teams previously met this season, with the Buckeyes winning 7-3 in the 2024 Women's Ice Breaker championship game in Columbus (Oct. 26, 2024).
This will be the first meeting between the teams at a neutral venue and in the postseason.

Survive and Advance
The winner of Friday's semifinal between the Buckeyes and Big Red advances to the national title game set for 4 p.m. Sunday, March 23. The game will be televised on ESPNU.

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