Box Score Alex Robinson scored 17 points, handed out nine assists and pulled down seven rebounds to lead TCU to an 82-73 victory over seventh-ranked West Virginia tonight at Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.
 
TCU, coming off a five-point defeat Saturday at Kansas State and out of the top 25 for the first time this year, played like a team in desperate need of a victory with five Big 12 losses.
 
It got it, ending its 11-game losing streak against the Mountaineers in the process.
 
"A bad game," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said afterward. "I wish I had more answers."
 
Desmond Bane added 15 and Vladimir Brodziansky contributed 14 points and 10 rebounds as TCU improves to 15-5, 3-5.
 
West Virginia (16-4, 5-3) began the night making eight out of its first 16 shots from the floor to build a seven-point lead, 31-24, on Lamont West's 3.
 
Then the lid went on the basket and it never came off.
 
The Mountaineers ended the half making only five out of their next 21 shots, and then began the first six minutes of the second half without a field goal as the Horned Frogs built their lead to 11.
 
It swelled to 15 on a Shawn Olden 3, then to 17 on another Olden 3 and eventually to 20 on a pair of Vladimir Brodziansky free throws with 7:14 remaining.
 
TCU, down to just one healthy ball handler after the season-ending injury to regular point guard Jaylen Fisher, was never really bothered by West Virginia's press because the Mountaineers simply couldn't make enough shots to get into it.
 
Robinson played 39 minutes running the point and turned the ball over five times, but almost had a triple-double in his head-to-head matchup against Jevon Carter, who finished with 16 points, seven assists and six rebounds. But Carter needed 18 shots to get his 16 points.

Senior Daxter Miles Jr. missed eight of his first nine shots before hitting four of his final seven during garbage time. He scored 12.
 
Sophomore forward Sagaba Konate was five-of-11 from the floor and finished with 14.

Lamont West was three-of-seven shooting and just two-of-five from the free throw line for 11.
 
Freshman guard Teddy Allen, playing for the first time since the Texas Tech game, scored seven off the bench but made only one of his seven shot tries. Backup guard James Bolden hit one of his five field goal attempts before getting blindsided by Brodziansky at midcourt on the final play of the first half. He did not return.
 
And, forward Esa Ahmad, averaging 13.7 points per game since his return four games ago, missed all five field goal attempts, turned the ball over twice and didn't score.
 
Added up, it was a 25-for-75 shooting night for West Virginia and its worst all-around performance since the season-opening loss to Texas A&M two months ago.

"We stopped them seven consecutive times and we didn't score in those seven consecutive times," Huggins said. "When you just continue to miss shot after shot …"
 
WVU's 35-point victory Saturday afternoon against Texas briefly masked a stretch that has seen the Mountaineers lose three out of their last four conference games to slip into a tie with surging Kansas State in second place in the Big 12 standings, both now trailing league-leading Kansas by two games in the loss column.
 
"We're going to get better because we're going to try and make them get better, but they've got to want to," Huggins said. "It's not about the game; it's about the preparation for the game."
 
West Virginia is idle until Saturday when it steps outside of conference play one final time during the regular season to face Kentucky in the Big 12/SEC Challenge at the WVU Coliseum.
 
It will be Kentucky's first appearance in Morgantown in 48 years. ESPN's College GameDay will also be back in town for the first time since 2009.
 
A 7 p.m. tipoff is scheduled. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.