{"id":151478,"date":"2025-02-22T21:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T03:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/?p=151478"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:00:54","slug":"saturday-roundup-fink-no-18-psu-upset-no-1-michigan-state-no-5-minnesota-now-tops-in-b1g-no-3-wmu-salvages-points-with-ot-win-at-no-12-asu-no-8-providence-rallies-past-no-13-uml-for-key-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/2025\/02\/22\/saturday-roundup-fink-no-18-psu-upset-no-1-michigan-state-no-5-minnesota-now-tops-in-b1g-no-3-wmu-salvages-points-with-ot-win-at-no-12-asu-no-8-providence-rallies-past-no-13-uml-for-key-le\/","title":{"rendered":"SATURDAY COLLEGE HOCKEY ROUNDUP: Fink, No. 18 PSU upset No. 1 Michigan State, No. 5 Minnesota now tops in B1G; No. 3 WMU salvages points with OT win at No. 12 ASU; No. 8 Providence rallies past No. 13 UML for key league points; Army ends Riley era in West Point with OT win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Penn State jumped to a 3-0 lead early and then held off the nation’s top team Michigan State, holding on for a 3-2 victory in Lansing on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Combined with Friday’s 2-2 tie where Penn State won the shootout, the Nittany Lions held \u00a0Michigan State to just a single Big Ten point this weekend allowing Minnesota to move into first place with one weekend left in the regular season. The Gophers swept Ohio State this weekend, 4-1 and 6-3.<\/p>\n
Charlie Cerrato opened the scoring for Penn State just 59 seconds into the game and JJ Wiebusch extended the lead 41 seconds later.<\/p>\n
In the second, Aiden Fink scored his 22nd goal of the season to momentarily take the national lead in points, one ahead of Michigan State’s Isaac Howard.<\/p>\n
\nThe game-winner from @PennStateMHKY<\/a>'s Aiden Fink that secured the big upset \ud83d\udca5#B1GHockey<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ad6MsB98BV<\/a><\/p>\n
— Big Ten Hockey (@B1GHockey) February 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n