Jinelle Zaugg doesn’t mind the view from the back of the line.
“I’m loving this year; it is completely different,” Zaugg, a senior forward on the University of Wisconsin womens hockey team, said after practice earlier this week. “We’re kind of like the underdog.
“And it is so much sweeter when youre the underdog. Nobody expects you to win and you come back and bite them.”
The Badgers 28-8-3, the two-time defending NCAA champions, enter the Frozen Four in Duluth, Minn., as the lowest-ranked team in the field at No. 4. They face top-ranked Harvard 32-1-0 at 5 p.m. Thursday.