It was a long 24 hours for Kansas women’s basketball heading into Saturday afternoon’s matchup with the No. 25 ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and it ended with a 105-73 loss to the Huskers in the Mount Rushmore State.

Sophomore forward Jaliya Davis led the way in scoring for Kansas with 21 points, while junior guard Britt Prince had 35 for the Cornhuskers. The Jayhawks had four scorers in double-figures, with sophomore guard Libby Fandel scoring 17 and playing all 40 minutes of the game.

“They just bullied us, they were tougher than us (and) they played harder than us,” Kansas head coach Brandon Schneider said on the Jayhawk Radio Network postgame.

Kansas turned the ball over 19 times and was outrebounded 32-22 in the matchup.

The Jayhawks were impacted by the nationwide ground stop on Friday, with their flight being grounded on the tarmac at Topeka Regional Airport before Kansas made the decision to make the five-hour bus ride north instead of waiting for the ground stop to be lifted.

Heading into the game, senior guard Brittany Harshaw’s status was unknown after she left Tuesday’s matchup with Oral Roberts with an ankle injury. Kansas head coach Brandon Schneider said Harshaw’s X-ray was negative after Tuesday’s game, but he did not know when she would return. Harshaw played 21 minutes on Saturday and contributed three points.

Both teams started the matchup hot, with junior forward Regan Williams beginning the scoring with a layup 14 seconds into the game. Nebraska knotted things up with a pair of free throws before the Jayhawks reclaimed the edge with a pair of free throws from Davis.

That 4-2 lead was the last time that Kansas led in the matchup.

The two sides traded blows through the midway point in the first quarter, with Nebraska holding a 16-13 advantage at the under-five media timeout. In the final three minutes of the first, the Huskers began to pull away after a pair of 3s and a layup sent Nebraska into the second with a 30-20 lead.

The second quarter started with an 8-0 run for the Huskers that ended with a tip-in by Davis just over two minutes into the period. Nichols followed that up with a 3-pointer, but Nebraska got those points right back with a 3 and layup. Midway through the quarter, the Cornhuskers held a 42-25 lead.

Kansas attacked the paint ahead of halftime, but Nebraska had an answer for every Jayhawk bucket. At halftime, the Huskers led Kansas 54-40.

To start the second half, the Jayhawks tried to keep the pressure in the paint, but a pair of giveaways from Davis and Williams in the opening minute kept Kansas off the board, and Nebraska kept adding on.

The Jayhawks’ first points of the second half came 2:59 into the third quarter, when Davis laid one in off the assist from Fandel. At the halfway mark of the third, it was 69-43 Huskers.

Kansas finally got the scoring going in the final five minutes of the third, with a pair of layups from Fandel and a 3-point bucket from Harshaw. At the end of three, Nebraska held an 80-52 advantage. The Cornhuskers outscored the Jayhawks 26-12 in the period.

Down the stretch in the fourth, Nebraska continued to pile on. Freshman guard Mollie Ernstes added her first points of the game with a 3 with 8:23 to go. With five minutes left, the Huskers led 95-65.

Nebraska eclipsed the 100-point mark with a 3-pointer from freshman guard Maddi Stewart in the final three minutes.

Kansas, which fell to 3-1, will now head to Minneapolis to take on No. 18 Minnesota on Wednesday. That game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.