Linus Weissbach scored at 2 minute, 5 seconds of overtime to give Wisconsin a 4-3 victory over visiting Michigan in the final Big Ten regular-season game for both teams.
Saturday's college hockey roundup
March 3, 2019 at 6:09AM
The loss kept the Wolverines from moving ahead of the Gophers for the third seed in the conference playoffs. Instead, Michigan dropped to the sixth seed and will open a best-of-three series at Minnesota on Friday.
The Wolverines scored twice in the second period to take a 3-2 lead, but the Badgers tied the score on Ty Emberson's goal with 1:07 left in the third.
Michigan State 3, No. 7 Ohio State 2: Mitch Lewandowski and Brody Stevens scored goals in the first nine minutes of the third period as the visiting Spartans upset the Big Ten regular-season champions.
No. 18 Penn State 3, No. 17 Notre Dame 2: Evan Barratt's power-play goal in the sixth minute of the third period for the visiting Nittany Lions broke a 2-all tie.
NCHC
No. 1 St. Cloud State 8, No. 10 Western Michigan 2: Blake Lizotte scored twice as the Huskies routed the host Broncos.
No. 20 North Dakota 2, Colorado College 1: Cole Smith and Matt Kiersted scored goals 1:08 apart late in the opening period as the Fighting Hawks beat the host Tigers.
No. 3 Minnesota Duluth 6, Miami (Ohio) 5: Parker McKay scored on a power play with 20 seconds left in the second period for host UMD to tie the game at 5-all and teammate Kobe Roth had the only goal of the third period.
WCHA
No. 4 MSU Mankato 3, Bemidji State 1: Goals two minutes apart by Nicholas Rivera and Walker Duehr early in the second period gave the host Mavericks a 3-0 lead.
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