UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Wisconsin men's hockey team fell just short of a semifinal berth in the Big Ten tournament Sunday evening, dropping a 4-3 decision in overtime to No. 18 Penn State at Pegula Ice Arena.

The Badgers and the Nittany Lions skated to a 3-3 tie at the end of regulation, but Penn State forward Liam Folkes tallied the game-winner at the 10:50 mark of the first overtime period to earn a 4-3 victory over Wisconsin.

The Badgers went down 2-1 early in the middle frame, but junior forward Max Zimmer and sophomore defenseman Josh Ess notched a pair of goals less than 30 seconds apart to take a 3-2 lead.

Penn State forward Alex Limoges evened the score with just over a minute to play in the second to tie the game at three heading into the break, and after a scoreless third frame, Folkes ended a back-and-forth overtime period with his second goal of the night to end the Badgers' season.

In his 28th appearance between the pipes for the Badgers, freshman goaltender stopped a season-high 46 shots.

Notes to Know:

• Wisconsin is now 17-13-4 all-time in overtime playoff contests. The last time the Badgers won a postseason game in overtime was in the 2014 Big Ten championship game when UW defeated Ohio State, 5-4, in extra time.
• Senior center Seamus Malone and sophomore winger Sean Dhooghe finish the season as the Badgers' leading scorers with 26 points each. In 37 games, Malone tallied eight goals and 18 assists, while Dhooghe notched a team-leading 15 goals and 11 assists.
• Freshman netminder Daniel Lebedeff made a career-high 46 saves in the loss, good for a .920 save percentage.
• The Badgers graduate six seniors— two defenseman and four forwards— this season, including captain Peter Tischke and alternate captain Seamus Malone.

Straight from the Rink
Head Coach Tony Granato
On the game's ending:
"The only thing you ask of your team is that you play hard. You give yourself a chance by hard how hard you compete, and that's what we did. We didn't quite get a break maybe when we needed it, but we played hard. Our team got going in the past few weeks, and played our best hockey. We had a game in there that might not have been great yesterday, but our guys played as hard as we could. We just came up a little short."

"The third period was probably our best period of the year. Their goalie was good for them, Daniel (Lebedeff) was good for us, especially the first two periods. We had some great chances to score, it just didn't happen for us. You ask your guys to play hard and battle and leave it on the ice, and we did that.

On the end to the season:
"All of the sudden, it comes to an end and the season's over. It's hard. I know our guys will be emotional. I know it was tough especially for our seniors, knowing that that was their last time wearing the sweater. They're probably feeling they deserved a little bit better, but Penn State is a good team and they'll do well representing our league as they move forward."

Senior forward Seamus Malone
On the loss:
"It wasn't fun. There's no other way to put it. You hate to see a team work so hard and do so much all year long, and then have the season go the way that it did. We know we're a better team than our record showed. We know that we probably deserved better, but that's the way it goes sometimes. It sucks and it's a hard pill to swallow, but I can't be more proud of the guys in the locker room. I really couldn't."

On his career ending:
"Those seniors, we've been through so much. It's just a lot of hugs, a lot of tears. There's not much that you can say to each other, but I love those guys. It sucks that this is how it's going to end, and it sucks for injured Peter [Tischke] that he wasn't out there in the end. I'm sure it's killing him too. It's a tough way to go, but like I said, I'm proud of all those guys in there. I wouldn't change a thing. I had an unbelievable experience here. We ended the season the right way. In my eyes, we left it [all] out there."

Sophomore forward Tarek Baker
On the loss:
"Obviously it's not a good feeling. You see guys like Peter Tischke and Seamus Malone and their four years and everything they done for the program come to an end. You want to play for guys like that that give it their all each and every day. That whole class, to see it come to end in four years like this, it's hard to take in. Obviously our goal was to win a title, seeing just everything we've gone through through the summer and the year, all of it coming to an end, it's emotional."

On scoring chances:
"I felt like I had a lot of chances, but not putting a puck away here and there, obviously I wish I could have. It probably would have changed some momentum in the game, but I can't sit and dwell on it now. There are a lot of different things in the game, other than missing a couple opportunities here and there that change the course of the game. I wish it would have went our way, but it went theirs."

On the season as a whole:
"It was a rollercoaster of a year, but they say you want your best hockey to be played at the end of the season, and truthfully I thought we were playing our best hockey at the end of the season. Obviously, it would have been better for us to be in the top-15 all year and just get a bid into the tournament, but we didn't have that opportunity. We were playing our best hockey at the end. It just didn't come out our way."