After neither team found the net during the three-on-three overtime period, Ohio State eventually ended the game in a seven-round shootout. Nonetheless, the final score moved Wisconsin to an impressive 20-1-1, 14-1-1 WCHA on the season and concluded the Badgers’ season series against the Buckeyes (13-5-3, 8-5-3 WCHA).

MSU's Daniel Russell scored with 1.4 seconds left in overtime to give the Spartans a win over Wisconsin on a frigid Saturday night at Wrigley Field.

Daniel Russell scored his second goal of the game with 1.4 seconds remaining in overtime to give MSU a 4-3 overtime victory over Wisconsin on Saturday night in the Frozen Confines event at Wrigley Field.

With the win, Michigan State snapped Wisconsin’s perfect outdoor record, handing the Badgers their first loss in four outdoor games. The Spartans improve to 2-3-1 outdoors, famously having tied their rival Michigan Wolverines in the 2001 “Cold War” game at Spartan Stadium that kicked off the outdoor ice hockey phenomenon.

There's nothing quite like the magic of outdoor hockey, and when you set the rink at Wrigley Field under the Saturday night lights, it becomes a spectacle for the ages.

Wisconsin men’s hockey fell to the Michigan State Spartans in overtime at ‘The Frozen Confines: Big Ten Hockey Series,’ an outdoor event at Chicago’s Wrigley Field on Saturday. Ranked No. 1 in the USA TODAY/USA Hockey Poll, the Spartans opened the contest with a 2-0 edge in the second quarter. Wisconsin, however, battled back.

Michigan State hockey went on the road to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field to play an outdoor hockey game against the Wisconsin Badgers. The game, like much of the weekend at Wrigley, did not disappoint and the Spartans pulled out an overtime thriller to beat the Badgers, 4-3.

No. 1 Michigan State scored with 1.4 seconds left in overtime to spoil the Badgers' comeback at the Frozen Confines.

While the temperatures were low Saturday, it was definitely heating up under the lights as many people came out, braving the cold for the first-ever college hockey game at Wrigley Field.

Mark Johnson had plans to make the most of the Frozen Confines, but wasn't allowed. And the Badgers hockey teams tried not to let the final score be the takeaway from their experiences playing outdoors.

Saturday’s experience for the Univ. of Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s hockey in the Frozen Confines at Wrigley Field -- which involved playing top-level competition in the outfield in one of the most storied stadiums in baseball -- will go down as one beyond the wildest dream every Badgers player and coach ever had.

On a weekend the Cubs welcomed thousands of diehards for a celebration at their annual fan convention, chairman Tom Ricketts took issue with the narrative that he and the organization don’t spend enough financially.