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After starting the campaign with six outings against four different non-conference opponents, Colorado College finally opens league play this week with a two-game series in Madison, Wis., against the University of Wisconsin.

Faceoff at the Kohl Center (15,237 seating capacity) is 7:07 p.m. CT Friday and Saturday as the teams celebrate their final regular-season meetings as members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

The series opener will be televised live regionally on Altitude 2 and Fox Sports Wisconsin.

CC, which has dropped three consecutive decisions, is 3-3 overall. The Tigers fell twice, 2-0 and 3-2, to No. 7-ranked Cornell University of the ECAC last week in the program's first-ever visit to historic Lynah Rink in Ithaca, N.Y.

Wisconsin, meanwhile, skated to a 2-0 victory and 2-2 tie at the University of Minnesota Duluth to kick off both teams' WCHA schedule, and brings a 1-2-1 overall mark into this week's action.

Neither team appears in this week's national rankings released on Monday.

Friday's contest marks the 182nd all-time meeting between Colorado College and the Badgers in a rivalry that began on Jan. 8, 1965. UW owns a 108-66-9 advantage in the previous 181 encounters, but has won just four of the last 19 dating back to the 2006-07 season. 

CC is 14-4-1 in the series during that span, including two victories (4-2, 4-1) at the Colorado Springs World Arena last November. While Wisconsin also holds a 56-29-5 edge in Madison, the Tigers are 9-7-4 in 20 all-time appearances at the Kohl Center after splitting in their last visit there to end the 2010-11 regular season. 

Tiger Bites: Friday's Altitude 2 telecast can be seen in a 10-state mountain territory on DirecTV channel 682 and Dish channel 451, as well on Comcast channel 105 throughout Colorado. Anyone who misses the live telecast can catch a free streamed replay, courtesy of Wisconsin Public Television, on the internet at http://wpt.org/wisconsinchannel/, starting at 9 p.m. MT...While 17 different CC players have collected at least one point through the first six games of the season, 11 head to Madison this week with three or more. Three senior forwards – Andrew Hamburg (4g,1), William Rapuzzi (2g,3a) and Scott Winkler (3g,2a) –  are tied for the team lead with five apiece...The Tigers have struggled on the power play during their current three-game skid, and head to Wisconsin looking to snap an 0-for-12 slump with the man advantage.