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 ended a second consecutive home game with a dunk for the Gophers, but there was no court-storm celebration Saturday. Washington, the Big Ten’s last-place team, ruined Garcia’s 28-point performance and chance to lead his team to a third consecutive victory at Williams Arena by defeating the Gophers 71-68.

For nearly 2½ periods Saturday night, the record crowd of 10,894 at 3M Arena at Mariucci saw the Gophers men’s hockey team locked into a scoreless tie with Wisconsin. Battles a

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.