2023–24 Big Ten Conference ice hockey season

The 2023–24 Big Ten Conference ice hockey season was the 34th season of play for the Big Ten Conference's men's ice hockey division and took place during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season. The season began on October 7, 2023 and concluded on April 11, 2024.

2023–24 Big Ten Conference ice hockey season
Season	2023–24
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Division	Division I
Sport	ice hockey
Duration	October 7, 2023– April 11, 2024
Number of teams	7
TV partner(s)	Big Ten Network
NHL Entry Draft
Top draft pick	Artyom Levshunov
Picked by	Chicago Blackhawks
Regular Season
Season champions	Michigan State
Season MVP	Gavin Brindley
Top scorer	Gavin Brindley
Big Ten Tournament
Tournament champions	Michigan State
Runners-up	Michigan
Tournament MVP	Trey Augustine
Top scorer	Seamus Casey Rutger McGroarty
NCAA Tournament
Bids	4
Record	4–4
Best Finish	National Semifinal
Team(s)	Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Wisconsin
Big Ten Conference ice hockey seasons « 2022–23 2024–25 »

Head coaches

Coaching changes

Wisconsin

On March 6, 2023, Wisconsin announced that Tony Granato was fired after seven season.^[1][2] On March 30, 2023, Mike Hastings was named as the new head coach for the Badgers.^[3][4]

Records

Team	Head coach	Season at school	Record at school	Big Ten record
Michigan	Brandon Naurato	2	26–12–3	12–10–2
Michigan State	Adam Nightingale	2	18–18–2	10–12–2
Minnesota	Bob Motzko	6	113–60–12	73–34–11
Notre Dame	Jeff Jackson	19	392–247–71	76–53–13
Ohio State	Steve Rohlik	11	183–143–39	90–87–20
Penn State	Guy Gadowsky	13	181–154–25	88–103–16
Wisconsin	Mike Hastings	1	0–0–0	0–0–0

Standings

2023–24 Big Ten ice hockey Standings v t e
	Conference record											Overall record
	GP	W	L	T	OTW	OTL	3/SW	PTS	GF	GA		GP	W	L	T	GF	GA
#5 Michigan State †*	24	16	6	2	0	1	1	52	92	69		38	25	10	3	147	117
#11 Wisconsin	24	16	7	1	2	2	1	50	81	57		40	26	12	2	128	81
#7 Minnesota	24	13	7	4	3	1	0	41	80	65		39	23	11	5	135	100
#4 Michigan	24	11	11	2	1	1	1	36	85	77		41	23	15	3	169	125
Notre Dame	24	9	13	2	0	1	1	31	66	62		36	15	19	2	101	98
Penn State	24	7	14	3	0	1	2	27	62	92		36	15	18	3	113	130
Ohio State	24	4	18	2	1	0	2	15	50	94		38	14	20	4	100	124
Championship: March 23, 2024 † indicates conference regular season champion * indicates conference tournament champion Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated April 11, 2024

Non-Conference record

The Big Ten continued to outperform the other conferences. Every single league member had a winning nonconference record with the lowest (Michigan State) being .650. Only Hockey East had a winning record against the Big Ten but that was dwarfed by the overwhelming totals against four other leagues.

Regular season record

Team	Atlantic Hockey	CCHA	ECAC Hockey	Hockey East	Independent	NCHC	Total
Michigan	0–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–0	2–2–0	4–0–0	1–0–1	7–2–1
Michigan State	3–1–0	3–0–1	0–0–0	0–2–0	0–0–0	0–0–0	6–3–1
Minnesota	2–0–0	2–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–0	0–0–0	3–2–1	7–2–1
Notre Dame	2–1–0	2–0–0	1–1–0	1–2–0	0–0–0	0–0–0	6–4–0
Ohio State	2–0–0	2–0–0	2–0–0	0–0–0	1–0–1	1–0–1	8–0–2
Penn State	2–1–0	0–0–0	2–0–0	0–0–0	4–1–0	0–0–0	8–2–0
Wisconsin	1–0–0	5–0–0	0–0–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	0–1–0	8–2–0
Overall	12–3–0	14–0–1	5–1–0	4–6–0	10–2–1	5–3–3	50–15–5

Statistics

Leading scorers

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes^[5]

Player	Class	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Gavin Brindley	Sophomore	Michigan	23	12	17	29	16
Rutger McGroarty	Sophomore	Michigan	21	10	17	27	6
Dylan Duke	Junior	Michigan	24	14	12	26	16
Rhett Pitlick	Junior	Minnesota	23	14	10	24	6
Bryce Brodzinski	Graduate	Minnesota	23	9	15	24	14
Artyom Levshunov	Freshman	Michigan State	24	6	18	24	34
Frank Nazar	Sophomore	Michigan	24	9	13	22	10
Cruz Lucius	Sophomore	Wisconsin	20	7	15	22	4
Isaac Howard	Sophomore	Michigan State	24	7	15	22	6
T. J. Hughes	Sophomore	Michigan	24	7	14	21	27
Karsen Dorwart	Sophomore	Michigan State	24	8	13	21	28

Leading goaltenders

Minimum 1/3 of team's minutes played in conference games.
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average^[6]

Player	Class	Team	GP	Min	W	L	T	GA	SO	SV%	GAA
Kyle McClellan	Senior	Wisconsin	23	1354:23	15	7	1	52	2	.923	2.30
Ryan Bischel	Graduate	Notre Dame	24	1434:34	9	13	2	59	1	.931	2.47
Justen Close	Senior	Minnesota	24	1391:47	13	6	4	58	2	.920	2.50
Trey Augustine	Freshman	Michigan State	24	1448:22	16	6	2	66	3	.922	2.73
Jake Barczewski	Graduate	Michigan	23	1340:54	10	11	2	64	1	.911	2.86

Ranking

Main article: 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey rankings

USCHO

Team	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Final
Michigan	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Michigan State	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Notre Dame	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ohio State	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Penn State	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wisconsin	NR	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

USCHO did not release a poll in weeks 1 and 13.^[7]

USA Hockey

Team	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	Final
Michigan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Michigan State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Minnesota	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Notre Dame	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ohio State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Penn State	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wisconsin	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

^[8]

Pairwise

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	Final
Michigan	25	21	12	14	15	19	23	16	15	15	15	14	14	14	12	11	15	16	14	13	10	10	10
Michigan State	1	5	14	25	11	13	7	9	9	7	7	8	3	7	7	7	5	3	5	5	5	5	4
Minnesota	32	36	8	27	19	12	12	12	11	13	11	14	12	9	9	9	8	9	8	7	6	8	6
Notre Dame	24	33	49	31	35	21	14	18	18	20	18	22	22	18	20	21	21	21	21	21	22	22	22
Ohio State	1	4	19	20	22	34	29	24	26	26	30	27	26	30	32	35	31	29	26	34	28	28	26
Penn State	1	3	17	21	21	22	19	15	17	19	19	18	20	24	22	24	23	24	24	22	23	23	23
Wisconsin	1	9	16	1	6	3	7	10	6	6	5	2	5	4	4	5	4	6	3	6	9	9	8

Note: teams ranked in the top-10 automatically qualify for the NCAA tournament. Teams ranked 11-16 can qualify based upon conference tournament results.^[9]

Conference tournament

Main article: 2024 Big Ten men's ice hockey tournament

Teams are reseeded for the semifinals

	Quarterfinals March 8–10[10]							Semifinals March 16					Championship March 23
								1	Michigan State	2
								7	Ohio State	1
	2	Wisconsin	1	4	1
	7	Ohio State	3	2	3
													1	Michigan State	5*
													4	Michigan	4
	3	Minnesota	5	3	—
	6	Penn State	1	2	—
								3	Minnesota	1
								4	Michigan	2
	4	Michigan	5	4	—
	5	Notre Dame	4	3	—

Note: * denotes overtime periods.

Awards

NCAA

Award	Recipient
Mike Richter Award	Kyle McClellan, Wisconsin
AHCA All-American Teams[11]
West First Team	Position
Seamus Casey, Michigan	D
Gavin Brindley, Michigan	F
West Second Team	Position
Kyle McClellan, Wisconsin	G
Artyom Levshunov, Michigan State	D
Rutger McGroarty, Michigan	F

Big Ten

Award		Recipient [12]
Player of the Year		Gavin Brindley, Michigan
Defensive Player of the Year		Artyom Levshunov, Michigan State
Goaltender of the Year		Kyle McClellan, Wisconsin
Freshman of the Year		Artyom Levshunov, Michigan State
Scoring Champion		Gavin Brindley, Michigan
Coach of the Year		Adam Nightingale, Michigan State
Tournament Most Outstanding Player		Trey Augustine, Michigan State
All-Big Ten Teams[12]
First Team	Position	Second Team
Kyle McClellan, Wisconsin	G	Trey Augustine, Michigan State
Seamus Casey, Michigan	D	Scooter Brickey, Ohio State
Artyom Levshunov, Michigan State	D	Ryan Chesley, Minnesota
	D	Sam Rinzel, Minnesota
Gavin Brindley, Michigan	F	Dylan Duke, Michigan
Rutger McGroarty, Michigan	F	Rhett Pitlick, Minnesota
Jimmy Snuggerud, Minnesota	F	Landon Slaggert, Notre Dame
Freshman Team	Position
Trey Augustine, Michigan State	G
Artyom Levshunov, Michigan State	D
Sam Rinzel, Minnesota	D
Aiden Fink, Penn State	F
Oliver Moore, Minnesota	F
Garrett Schifsky, Michigan	F
Big Ten All-Tournament Team[13]
Trey Augustine, Michigan State	G
Seamus Casey, Michigan	D
Nash Nienhuis, Michigan State	D
Gavin Brindley, Michigan	F
Rutger McGroarty, Michigan	F
Daniel Russell, Michigan State	F

2024 NHL Entry Draft

Main article: 2024 NHL Entry Draft

Round	Pick	Player	College	NHL team
1	2	Artyom Levshunov	Michigan State	Chicago Blackhawks
1	21	Michael Hage †	Michigan	Montreal Canadiens
1	28	Matvei Gridin †	Michigan	Calgary Flames
2	39	Gabriel Eliasson †	Michigan	Ottawa Senators
3	71	Brodie Ziemer †	Minnesota	Buffalo Sabres
4	108	Luke Osburn †	Wisconsin	Buffalo Sabres
4	112	Javon Moore †	Minnesota	Ottawa Senators
4	114	Nicholas Kempf †	Notre Dame	Washington Capitals
4	117	Blake Montgomery †	Wisconsin	Ottawa Senators
5	144	John Whipple †	Minnesota	Detroit Red Wings
5	148	Noah Powell †	Ohio State	Detroit Red Wings
6	172	Patrick Geary	Michigan State	Buffalo Sabres
7	197	Lucas Van Vliet †	Michigan State	Vegas Golden Knights
7	203	Austin Baker †	Michigan State	Detroit Red Wings
7	213	Erik Pahlsson †	Minnesota	Nashville Predators
7	215	Christian Humphreys †	Michigan	Colorado Avalanche

† incoming freshman ^[14]

References

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External links

• official website