The 2025 Kwik Trip Final Faceoff certainly saved the best for last, as the No. 1 Wisconsin Badgers and the No. 4 Minnesota Gophers played an all-time classic championship game with the Badgers pulling out a dramatic 4-3 victory last-minute win in Duluth.
It was the usual suspects giving Wisconsin (35-1-2) the lead midway through the first period, as junior Kirsten Simms lifted a saucer pass through the defense right to super senior Casey O’Brien for the go-ahead goal; however, the lead was short lived with Minnesota equalizing just seconds later.
Minnesota (28-11-1) would take a lead into the intermission after Josefin Bouveng sniped one past sophomore goaltender Ava McNaughton late in the first.