LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — James Palmer Jr. scored 28 points, Isaac Copeland added 23 points and 11 rebounds and Nebraska pulled away from Iowa in the second half for a 98-84 win Saturday night. Nebraska (16-8, 7-4 Big Ten) scored its most points in a conference game since putting up 99 against Kansas State in 2001 when the Huskers were in the Big 12.

Iowa (11-12, 2-8), which beat Wisconsin on Tuesday, failed to win consecutive conference games for the first time and left coach Fran McCaffery with 399 career wins. Jordan Bohannon and Tyler Cook each had 24 points to lead the Hawkeyes.

The Hawkeyes have struggled on defense all season and came in allowing 82.6 points per game against Big Ten opponents. Saturday was their worst performance. They gave up a season-high 98 points and allowed Nebraska to shoot an opponent season-best 57.7 percent and make 6 of 8 3-pointers in the second half and 11 of 19 (57.9 percent) for the game.

Iowa hosts Minnesota on Tuesday.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Ariel Atkins scored 15 points, Lashann Higgs added 14 and No. 6 Texas routed Iowa State 87-55 on Saturday night. Jatarie White and Audrey-Ann Caron-Goudreau, both 6-foot-4, and 6-3 Joyner Holmes contributed 12 points apiece as the bigger, more physical and athletic Longhorns outscored Iowa State 32-20 in the paint.

Emily Durr led Iowa State with 20 points, converting seven of 10 field-goal attempts, and Bridget Carleton added 19.

The Cyclones have endured a rough patch, losing seven of their last nine games. Part of that might be a function of the schedule. They are going through a stretch of five consecutive games against opponents ranked in the AP Top 25. They lost to Baylor and West Virginia before upsetting No. 19 Oklahoma State on Wednesday in Stillwater. They host No. 24 TCU on Tuesday in their first meeting of the season. They split two games last season, each winning at home.

EVANSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ryan Taylor scored 25 points, including a big basket in the final minute, and Evansville defeated Drake 77-73 on a Saturday in which the Purple Aces retired eight jerseys. Taylor made three 3-pointers and grabbed a game-high eight rebounds. His midrange jumper blunted a Drake surge and led to a 5-0 spurt and a 75-67 lead with 12 seconds remaining. Noah Frederking added 16 points and Blake Simmons 14 for Evansville (14-9, 4-6 Missouri Valley), which shot 50 percent and made 7 of 12 from the arc and 22 of 25 free throws.

Drake (12-11, 6-4) scored the first five points before Evansville went up for good after a 24-3 run. De’Antae McMurray led the Bulldogs with 13 points. At halftime, Evansville honored former players Hugh Ahlering, Brad Leaf, Marty Simmons, Scott Shreffler, Andy Elkins and Marcus Wilson and former coaches Arad McCutchan and Jim Crews.

The Exira-EHK Spartans picked up a nice road win on Saturday afternoon over the Shenandoah Fillies 53-32. Sophia Peppers led the charge with 23 points and Ellie Schultes finished with 14 to help the Spartans improve to 17-1.

Exira-EHK led 15-10 at the end of the first quarter and 31-18 by halftime. Shenandoah opened up the second half on a 9-2 run to get within 6 at 33-27 but the Spartans would respond. Ellie Schultes hit back to back threes and Kealey Nelson converted a three point play to put the Spartans back in a comfortable lead. The run would end at 14-0 and the Spartans managed the end of the game well to put it away.

Exira-EHK Head Coach Tom Petersen said he was proud of the way the girls played and many of them battling through illness to get it done. He said they wanted to try to slow down Logan Hughes and make someone else beat them. He was also proud of their response after the run at the beginning of the half which has been a sore spot at times for the Spartans.

The Fillies were led by 18 points from Logan Hughes and they fall to 12-5.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the postseason boys basketball District and Substate assignments on Friday. Seeding meetings are set to take place on February 7th and then the actual match-ups and brackets will be released.

For Atlantic they will be in Class 3A Substate 8 with ADM, Carroll, Creston, Denison-Schleswig, Glenwood, Harlan, and Perry. 4 of the top 16 teams in the current BCMoore rankings are in that Substate: Glenwood (6), Harlan (13), Carroll (15) and Atlantic (16).  Competition will obviously be strong no matter what the pairings are.  Atlantic has three games left before the seeding meeting including a big one on Tuesday night at Harlan.

In Class 2A District 16 will include AHSTW, Clarinda, Red Oak, Shenandoah, Treynor, and Underwood. District 15 will have AC/GC, Des Moines Christian, Greene County, Panorama, Woodward Academy, and Woodward-Granger.

In Class 1A District 13 will include Bedford, Clarinda Academy, Diagonal, Essex, Lenox, Nodaway Valley, Orient-Macksburg, Sidney, and Southwest Valley. District 14 will include CAM, East Mills, Exira-EHK, Fremont-Mills, Griswold, Heartland Christian, Riverside, St. Albert, and Stanton. District 15 will include Ar-We-Va, Audubon, Boyer Valley, Coon Rapids-Bayard, Glidden-Ralston, IKM-Manning, Paton-Churdan, Tri-Center, and Woodbine.

Take a look at all of the districts and substates below.

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