UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- After a thrilling win over Rutgers in the Big Ten semifinals, the Wisconsin women's soccer will face Iowa in the 2020-21 Big Ten Tournament Championship game on Sunday at 11 a.m. CT in University Park, Pa.
Fans can watch the Badgers and Hawkeyes live on Big Ten Network or stream the game via the Fox Sports Go application. The winner of Sunday's title clash will receive the conference's automatic bid into the 2020-21 NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament that begins on April 27 in North Carolina.
1. BADGERS ADVANCE: UW won in thrilling fashion over No. 22 Rutgers Thursday night to advance to the Big Ten championship game for the seventh time in program history. The victory marked the program's second victory at Penn State's Jeffrey Field, with the first coming in a 3-2 match over the Nittany Lions in 2010. The Badgers look to clinch their fourth Big Ten tournament title and the program's first since the 2014 season.
2. BIG PLAYS LATE: All five Badger goals over the last four games have come in the second half, including two game-winners in the final five minutes over a top-25 Rutgers team.
3. CLUTCH EMMA: All six career goals for sophomore
Emma Jaskaniec are game-winners with a team- and conference-leading four coming this season. In the 86th minute of the Big Ten semifinal match against the Scarlet Knights, Jaskaniec found the top right corner of the net to send Wisconsin to the championship tmatch. Seniors
Maia Cella and
Lauren Rice were credited with assists on the play.
4. WE MEET AGAIN: Wisconsin will face Iowa for the second time this season and are on an eight game unbeaten streak against the Hawkeyes. The Badgers opened the season in Loves Park, Illinois, with a 1-0 victory over Iowa thanks to a 10th minute goal from sophomore
Claire Odmark.
UW leads the overall series 13-5-4. UW and Iowa met in the 2014 Big Ten Tournament Championship game, one the Badgers took 1-0 in double overtime thanks to a Kinley McNicoll goal.
5. THE NATIONAL DANCE: Following Sunday's Big Ten title game, the Badgers will find out their NCAA tournament fate as the 2020-21 NCAA Women's Soccer Selection Show will take place at noon on Monday live on NCAA.com. A win on Sunday would give UW its fifth-straight NCAA tournament appearance, the longest NCAA tournament streak in school history.
