Frustrated for more than 58 minutes of play on Saturday, Colorado College was able to salvage yet another tie, its school-record 10th of the 2008-09 campaign.

And, although this was one did little good relative to the league standings, it was one of those games that a team can feel good about as it heads into the playoffs.

Chad Rau's 18th goal of the season, at 18:23 of the third period, lifted CC to a 1-1 draw with the University of Denver in their regular-season finale at Magness Arena.

With the point, the Tigers finish in a tie with Wisconsin for third place in the WCHA. They lose the tiebreaker with the Badgers, however, and as the No. 4 seed will play host to seventh-place Minnesota Duluth in a best-of-three opening-round playoff series at the World Arena next weekend.   

Other pairings next week feature Michigan Tech at North Dakota, Alaska Anchorage at Denver, Minnesota State at Wisconsin and St. Cloud State at Minnesota.

Colorado College, 16-10-10 overall and 12-9-7 in conference play, enters the post-season having lost just once in its last eight outings. The Tigers, 3-1-4 during that span, also remain undefeated (1-0-3) against archrival DU.

Sophomore goaltender Richard Bachman finished with 32 saves in Saturday's tie, one more than Pioneers net minder Marc Cheverie, who frustrated CC until Rau beat him from the bottom edge of the left faceoff circle after taking a nice feed from sophomore defenseman Ryan Lowery. Cheverie made six of his stops in overtime, when the Tigers pulled Bachman in favor of a sixth attacker during the final minute.

Denver, which killed off a five-minute major penalty midway through the third period, took its 1-0 lead on a power-play tally by Kyle Ostrow at 10:07 of the middle frame.