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Kirsten Simms delivers in OT for Wisconsin and this replay makes it even better

Kirsten Simms does it again vs. Penn State!
Wisconsin players warm up for practice at the Frozen Four at Pegula Ice Arena in University Park, Pa. on March 19, 2026.
Wisconsin players warm up for practice at the Frozen Four at Pegula Ice Arena in University Park, Pa. on March 19, 2026. | Mark Stewart / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

The Wisconsin women's hockey team is back in the national championship vs. Ohio State. It took some overtime heroics for the Badgers to pull it out. Kirsten Simms, now known as 'Miss Clutch,' delivered a sudden-death goal to propel Wisconsin past Penn State 4-3. It was an amazing goal live, and it is even better upon replay.

The latest replay put out by NCAA Ice Hockey shows, in slow-motion, the amazing moment and how it all came about, followed by the celebration afterward. Watch the video below:

Wisconsin took immediate advantage of a powerplay to send the Badgers to the championship

The Badgers had a 3-2 lead until late in the fourth period when Penn State tied it up with a breakaway goal by Tessa Janecke. They were unable to regain the lead in the fourth, and the game went into overtime. The Badgers were fortunate in overtime when Lacey Eden was checked in the back and thrown into the boards, leading to a penalty.

Badgers' head coach, Mark Johnson, challenged that it should have been a major penalty, but it was deemed a two-minute minor. That ended up not mattering as Simms scored on the very next play in a 5-4 situation. That led to the victory, and now Wisconsin is propelled into the championship game.

Simms has become the clutch savior for the Badgers as she now has three straight game-winning goals in NCAA Frozen Four games. She has done it again. It literally felt poetic that it was she who threw it over the Penn State goalie's shoulder to seal the deal.

It will now be Ohio State vs. Wisconsin for the women's national title in hockey for the fourth consecutive year. Yet it will be the sixth time one or the other has won the National Championship. Wisconsin won it in 2019 (there was no 2020 year due to COVID), in 2021 it was Wisconsin again, followed by Ohio State, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and now it will be one or the other.

The game will be Sunday, March 22 at 5pm CT on ESPNU.

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