The Gophers women's basketball team kept it close for a while, but it ultimately wasn't able to keep up with top-ranked UCLA over the final two quarters in what became a 79-53 blowout Sunday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.

Minnesota (18-5, 6-5 Big Ten) held UCLA star center Lauren Betts to just six points — 14 below her season average — but the junior used the added defensive attention to her teammates’ advantage. Betts finished with 11 assists on a day when the Bruins hit 13 triples on 40 percent shooting from deep.

Dawson Garcia’s 28-point performance was ruined by Washington outplaying the Gophers backcourt and other areas Saturday.

The fourth-ranked Gophers men's hockey team completed a series sweep of border rival No. 17 Wisconsin with a 4-1 victory Saturday night in front of a record crowd of 10,894 at 3M Arena at Mariucci in Minneapolis. The 10,984 fans in attendance at Mariucci Saturday set a single-game attendance record for the program in 30-plus years at the venue.

In front of the largest crowd in 3M Arena at Mariucci history, the fourth-ranked Golden Gophers scored four times in the third period to win, 4-1 and finish off a series sweep of No. 17/18 Wisconsin in Big Ten Conference men’s hockey action Saturday evening.