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 ... and the Schedule Ahead
- 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 ... and the Schedule Ahead
- 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.
- Promotional Schedule & Information
- 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).
- The Buckeyes have played in 11 one-goal games this campaign, with a 3-8 record in the contests.Â
- Ohio State has played seven overtime games this season. The Buckeyes dropped their first four OT contests before defeating Minnesota Dec. 5 and then skating to a 2-2 tie against Bowling Green Jan. 3. The squad fell to Michigan Jan. 31 in overtime. Last year, Ohio State had 10 games go into overtime, with a 5-3-2 mark (including two postseason wins and a loss in double overtime in the Big Ten Tournament final).Â
- On the power play, the Buckeyes are 22-for-94 (.234), ranking 16th in the NCAA. Last time out at Minnesota, the Buckeyes were 1-for-5, with a 1-for-3 outing in game one. The 0-for-2 night Saturday ended a streak of 10 straight games with at least on PPG.Â
- Riley Thompson leads the Buckeyes with six power play goals. Felix Caron is next with five and Davis Burnside and Jake Karabela each have three. Nathan Lewis, Ryan Gordon, Thomas Weis and Max Montes have also tallied with the man advantage. Caron (5g, 7a) paces the Buckeyes with 12 power play points, followed by Karabela with 11 (4g, 7a) and Burnside (3g, 7a) and Broten Sabo (10a) with 10 each.Â
- Ohio State has a .523 faceoff winning percentage (853-779) to rank 15th in the nation. Max Montes leads the Buckeye squad with 229 wins, while Riley Thompson has 187, Â Ryan Gordon has 175 and Jake Karabela has 158. Among Buckeyes with more than 40 faceoffs, Montes is first with a .577 winning percentage (229-168).Â
- Ohio State is averaging 3.0 goals a game, with three or more goals in 14 games. The team matched its season high, first set against Minnesota Dec. 5, in game one against the Gophers last week.Â
- The Buckeyes are allowing 3.42 goals per  and has given up three or fewer in each of the last three games.Â
- Ohio State is 75-for-99 (.758) on the penalty kill this season. The squad allowed two goals on two chances in game one at Minnesota before a 3-for-3 game on the penalty kill in game two.
- The Buckeyes had 46 shots in game one at Minnesota, the second-highest total of the year and the most since the season-opening series vs. Northern Michigan. In game two, Ohio State had a season-low 18 shots on goal. The Buckeyes are averaging 32.15 shots a game this year.Â
- Twenty-two Buckeyes have posted at least one point this season, with 17 scoring a goal and 22 notching at least one assist. Â
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