Friday, February 13
Columbus, Ohio
6:30 p.m.
Ohio State
vs
Wisconsin
Buckeyes and No. 13 Badgers Face Off in Columbus This Weekend
2/11/2026 6:28:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
Teams split a series in Madison in November
The Basics
Tickets, Parking and Promos
- The Ohio State men's hockey team is back home to host No. 13 Wisconsin in a two-game Big Ten series. The teams will meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Schottenstein Center in Columbus.
- Game one will be streamed by B1G+ and BTN will televise game two. Ohio State Radio will carry the action (1460 AM Columbus, WBNS-FM-HD2, streamed on espncolumbus.com and OhioStateBuckeyes.com and on the Ohio State Buckeyes app).Â
- Live stats can be linked from the schedule page on OhioStateBuckeyes.com for both games.
- Ohio State is 10-15-1 on the year (6-10, 19 points Big Ten) and is coming off a road sweep at Minnesota (6-2, 2-1). Wisconsin, 17-9-2 overall and 10-8 in league play (27 points), swept at Notre Dame last week (6-5 OT, 5-4).
Tickets, Parking and Promos
- Game one vs. the Badgers is Dollar Dog Night with $1 hot dogs. It is Pucks 'n Paws Night, with fans able to purchase a ticket to bring their furry friend to the game. (Note dog tickets are sold out.)
- Game two vs. Wisconsin is Skate & Date, featuring a free postgame skate (fans must bring their own skates).Â
- Saturday, there is a 2-for-1 ticket deal for date night in Section 134 or singles can purchase tickets in Section 128 to find love at the Schott. More information is available online at go.osu.edu/skateanddate2026.Â
- Parking is free for all regular season games in the Schottenstein Center.Â
- After back-to-back series at No. 6/7 Penn State Feb. 20-21 and at No. 1 Michigan State Feb. 27-28, the regular season ends for Ohio State March 5-6 at home against Notre Dame, with both games at 6:30 p.m. Game one is Dollar Dog Night and features Script Ohio on Ice, while game two is Senior Night.
- The Buckeyes are scoring 3.0 goals per game this season, allowing 3.42 a contest.Â
- The power play is 16th nationally, converting 23.4 percent of its chances. The penalty kill has stopped 75.8 percent of its opponents' opportunities. Ohio State averages 11.31 penalty minutes a game.Â
- The Buckeyes are 15th nationally in faceoff winning percentage (.523).
- Jake Karabela leads the team with 24 points, followed by Davis Burnside with 21. Max Montes and Felix Caron are tied for third with 20 each.Â
- Montes has a team-best 11 goals, with captains Burnside, Riley Thompson and Adam Eisele tied for second with nine apiece.Â
- Karabela is first with 16 helpers this season and Broten Sabo ranks second with 14. Â
- Ohio State is 37-29-5 all-time vs. Wisconsin and leads the regular season series since the start of Big Ten play, 30-15-5, with a 36-18-6 mark overall since 2013-14 (including postseason play).
- In Columbus, Ohio State leads the series all-time, 20-9-2.
- Earlier this year, the teams split a series in Madison Nov. 14-15, with a 5-1 Buckeye win and 6-5 Badger overtime victory.
- In 2024-25, the Buckeyes were 6-1 vs. Wisconsin.
- The teams faced off to open Big Ten play, with a series in Madison Oct. 18-19, 2024. Ohio State posted a 2-1 overtime win and a 2-1 win for a sweep. Feb. 14-15, 2025, the squads met in Columbus. The Buckeyes posted a sweep with 4-1 and 4-2 victories.
- The teams then met in a Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal series in Columbus. The Badgers took game one, 4-1. Ohio State prevailed 3-2 in overtime in game two and then won game three, 3-2, to advance to the semifinals.
- Davis Burnside leads the current Buckeyes with 20 games played against Wisconsin, while Max Montes has skated in 16 contests vs. the Badgers and Nathan McBrayer, William Smith and Thomas Weis have all played in 15 games against UW. Montes has nine goals, four assists and 13 points in his career vs. Wisconsin and Burnside has an 8-4-12 line. Riley Thompson has seven points, with four goals and three assists, in nine games against UW. Adam Eisele had three goals and an assist for four points in the series in November.Â
- Ohio State head coach Steve Rohlik is a 1990 graduate of Wisconsin, where he was a captain on the Badgers' national championship team.
- Buckeye junior forward Thomas Weis is a native of Madison, Wis., and his classmate Montes is from Hartland, Wis.
- Wisconsin is 17-9-2 on the year and has a 10-8 Big Ten mark, standing in fourth place with 27 points in 18 games played.
- The Badgers are fourth in NCAA on the power play (.294) and in scoring offense (3.79 goals per game). The team allows 3.11 goals a game and the penalty kill has stopped 72.5 percent of its opponents' chances. Wisconsin is 13th nationally in faceoff winning percentage (.529) and averages 14.61 penalty minutes a night, the seventh-most in the NCAA.
- Gavin Morrissey ranks seventh nationally with .88 assists per game, with a team-high 22. He is first on the team with 26 points, followed by Christian Fitzgerald, who has a team-best 14 goals (along with nine assists), and Quinn Finley (12g, 11a) with 23 points each. Ben Dexheimer follows with 22 points (6g, 16a). Â
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