In a point guard battle, Cleveland's Darius Garland briefly set the NBA scoring mark for this season but it wasn't enough as D'Angelo Russell found his game at just the right time.
The Gophers men's basketball team saw Jaden Henley, Pharrel Payne and Joshua Ola-Joseph combine for 40 points in Friday's win.
Minnesota doesn't have a signature victory thus far, but securing the Floyd of Rosedale and Paul Bunyan's Axe trophies would go a long way toward getting into the Big Ten Championship Game.
Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes to rookie Christian Watson and led a 55-yard drive in overtime to set up Mason Crosby's game-winning field goal, and the Green Bay Packers stopped a five-game skid with a 31-28 win over former coach Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
The Vikings star's 10 catches for a career-high 193 yards included acrobatic efforts and toe-tapping grabs at critical moments of the win over the Bills.