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Road struggles continue for WVU at Texas

MORGANTOWN — If West Virginia’s men’s basketball team doesn’t return to Texas to play in its Moody Center for a hundred years, it will be fine with them.

Talk about a House of Horrors, this has been a torture chamber for the Mountaineers in their two trips, the second of which was played on Saturday afternoon. The clock said it ended at about 5 o’clock Eastern time but in reality it ended closer to 3:05 p.m. when the Longhorns’ Dylan Disu canned a long 3.

That was like opening a lion’s cage as the Texans, angry at having been upset on their trip to Morgantown a month ago and furious as they came into the game with three losses in their last four games, punished the Mountaineers, 94-58.

That is even a worse loss than was suffered in that very same building a year ago, 94-60. In two games there, WVU was outscored 188-118.

“It felt like deja vu, looking at this box score, thinking back to last year in this arena,” coach Josh Eilert said of the defeat.

The only good that came out of this is that there’s a good chance it may be another 100 years before they play Texas in Austin, for the Longhorns are headed for the SEC and WVU is heading for TCU to face another road challenge.

Willie Nelson may have liked being back “On The Road Again”, but while WVU may try to live by the cliched sports axiom “There is no I in team””, they have invented an axiom of their own, that being “There is no W in road.”

WVU is now 0-9 away from the Coliseum this season, five of those losses in Big 12 play, and you have to go back nearly a year to find their last true road win, that coming on Feb. 27, 2023 at Iowa State.

Eilert was willing to fall on his sword with this one, admitting telling his players in his postgame talk that “I didn’t have you guys ready to play. That’s on me.”

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