Lacking puck luck early against a team with a rich history of it, Colorado College simply refused to succumb to adversity on Saturday.

Freshman left winger Jaden Schwartz scored his second goal of the game with his team on the power play at 5:48 of overtime, lifting the Tigers to a 4-3 sudden-death victory over the University of Wisconsin in Game 2 of their first-round WCHA playoff series at the World Arena.

With the triumph, CC knotted the best-of-three format for the weekend and forced a decisive showdown on Sunday that will send the winner to the league's Final Five tournament in St. Paul, Minn., next week.

The Badgers led 2-0 after one period and 3-2 until late in the third. 

Sophomore forward Scott Winkler made the play of the game to pull Colorado College even for the second time with 3:29 remaining in regulation. After taking a pass from freshman Dakota Eveland and firing a shot from the right side that Wisconsin goaltender Scott Gudmandson stopped with a glove save near his facemask, Winkler picked up his own rebound, skated behind the net and wrapped a shot inside the opposite post to send the crowd of 6,652 into a frenzy. 

The game winner trickled past Gudmandson after junior defenseman Gabe Guentzel, whose sixth goal of the season at 3:11 of the third period knotted the contest at 2-2, fired into traffic from the outer edge of the left faceoff circle. Schwartz and junior center Nick Dineen both took a whack at the puck in the slot, and it somehow found its way through the senior netminder. Dineen and Guentzel were awarded assists.

UW seized its 2-0 lead on goals by Craig Smith and Podge Turnbull just 2:01 apart midway through the opening frame. Turnbull's unassisted tally came moments after CC's Stephen Schultz hit a pipe at the other end of the ice. The Tigers earlier had a would-be goal by freshman defenseman Eamonn McDermott disallowed due to a quick whistle by a referee.

Colorado College, which held the Badgers scoreless on five power plays, successfully killed three penalties before Schwartz struck for his first red lighter and cut the early deficit in half at 10:49 of the middle stanza. Sophomore defenseman Joe Marciano and Schultz combined to set up the goal.

Guentzel's quick wrist shot from the blue line hit a Wisconsin stick and eluded Gudmandson through the five-hole to tie the game at 3:11 of the third period, but senior team captain Sean Dolan put Wisconsin back on top with a nice deflection just 2:33 later.

Sophomore netminder Joe Howe finished with 27 saves for CC, which improved to 20-17-3 overall for the season. Gudmandson stopped 24 shots for the Badgers, who head into Sunday's encounter with a 21-15-4 mark.