It seems increasingly safe to stick a fork in West Virginia’s basketball season, and fair to wonder whether the Mountaineers care that there’s a fork protruding from their bodies.
The 20th-ranked Mountaineers (19-9, 7-8 Big 12) continued to watch their once-promising season to swirl down the drain, falling for the fifth time in six games in a 67-57 loss at Texas. West Virginia blasted the Longhorns by 38 points when the teams met at WVU Coliseum on Jan. 20, which was Texas’ worst conference defeat in 37 years.
Monday night, that performance felt like it took place a decade ago rather than a month ago.