{"id":1163428,"date":"2026-02-22T21:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163428"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:33:39","slug":"wisconsin-wraps-up-wcha-regular-season-title-with-win-over-st-cloud-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wisconsin-wraps-up-wcha-regular-season-title-with-win-over-st-cloud-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin wraps up WCHA regular season title with win over St. Cloud State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MADISON \u2013 Mission accomplished!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BadgerWHockey\">Wisconsin women\u2019s hockey team<\/a> closed the regular season with a 4-2 victory over St. Cloud State on Sunday, Feb. 22 at LaBahn Arena to capture its second straight WCHA regular-season title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/badgers\/\">The Badgers<\/a> needed a victory in the finale to finish ahead of Ohio State. Wisconsin (29-3-2, 23-3-3 WCHA &#8211; 72 points) finished two points ahead of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/ohio-state-buckeyes\/3439\/\">Buckeyes<\/a> and will open the WCHA playoff Friday at home against with a best of three series versus Bemidji State.<\/p>\n<p>Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laceden\/\">Lacey Eden<\/a> continued her hot streak against St. Cloud, scoring a goal for the 10th time in the last 12 games and recording two assists.<\/p>\n<p>She also got credit for the game-winning goal for the second straight game. That score gave Wisconsin a 3-0 lead at the 9-minute 27-second mark of the second period.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/big-ten\/wisconsin\">Badgers<\/a> also received multi-point games from senior defender Vivian Jungels and sophomore forward Finley McCarthy, who each had two assists, and junior Laney Potter (one goal, one assist).<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><em>Check jsonline for more on the game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/college\/uw\/2026\/02\/22\/wisconsin-womens-hockey-beats-st-clouwraps-up-wcha-regular-season-title-with-win-over-st-cloud-state\/88785849007\/\">Wisconsin women&#8217;s hockey wraps up WCHA regular season title<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/wisconsin-wraps-wcha-regular-season-213339500.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/wisconsin-wraps-wcha-regular-season-213339500.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON \u2013 Mission accomplished! The Wisconsin women\u2019s hockey team closed the regular season with a 4-2 victory over St. Cloud State on Sunday, Feb. 22&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}