MADISON, Wis. – Northwestern played the role of spoiler and handed the Wisconsin women's soccer team a heartbreaking loss Wednesday night at the McClimon Complex, as the Wildcats scored a game-winning goal in the 107th minute of double overtime and stole a 2-1 road win.

While the Badgers (11-5-3, 8-2-1 Big Ten) still finish the regular season as Big Ten champions, they now share the title with Penn State, who won its final game of the season Wednesday night. As a result, Wisconsin also slipped to the No. 2 seed for the upcoming Big Ten tournament.

Wisconsin still earned the right to host its quarterfinal match of the Big Ten tournament at the McClimon Complex this Sunday against No. 7 seed Ohio State. Kickoff is set for noon (CT) in Madison.

"I told the team after the game that you can decide as a team how you want to use this game," UW head coach Paula Wilkins said of the loss. "You can use it to motivate you and prepare you for the next game by remembering this feeling. The next games that we play are go hard or go home (situations). They have to decide how they want to react to this. 

"That's a huge thing that we talk about all the time is the decisions that you make. I think it can be a motivator for us to be even better. I don't think this was our best performance tonight, all around. I think that we need to go back and do the things that we do well and get back to our disciplined ways." 

The Badgers started the game off on a dominant note, pressuring heavily before the Wildcats found their footing.

With a handful of chances on both ends throughout the first half, it was the Clem cousins who kept their respective teams in the contest. Northwestern's keeper Lauren Clem -- the cousin of UW's Caitlyn Clem -- was a wall for the Wildcats, facing 20 shots and seven corner kicks from Wisconsin.

In a game controlled by tight defense, it was junior midfielder Rose Lavelle who came through with a clutch goal for the Badgers. In the 74th minute of the contest, Lavelle took off on a long run and snuck the ball past Wildcat keeper Clem on a low shot far post to give UW a 1-0 lead.

Northwestern answered with a goal of their own only six minutes later, however, as Wildcats' point-leader Addie Steiner scored an open netter after Clem came way out off her line in a last-ditch effort to cover the ball following a defensive mistake and turnover. Steiner's goal tied the game at 1-1.

Both teams were unable to convert any of their remaining chances  created and headed to overtime. 

Gridlocked through the first ten-minute, sudden death overtime period, the Badgers and Wildcats went to double overtime. Six minutes in, defender Kassidy Gorman delivered a heartbreaker to the Badgers, finding the ball in the box amid a sea of purple and white jerseys and scoring the game-winner.

Wisconsin had its nine game unbeaten streak snapped and suffered its first loss since Sept. 17 at Penn State.