Box Score West Virginia looked like a basketball team playing its third road game in 10 days. 
 
Just two days after getting its second Big 12 victory of the year on Saturday against Oklahoma, the Mountaineers looked like they had nothing left in the tank in losing 81-50 to 18^th-ranked Texas Tech at United Supermarkets Arena tonight in Lubbock, Texas.
 
West Virginia (10-13, 2-8) made just nine field goals – its fewest in a game in 77 years – and committed 26 turnovers in falling by 31 points on the road for the second time this season.
 
The Mountaineers also fell by 31 at TCU back on Jan. 15.

WVU made nine field goals in a 30-22 loss at Duquesne on Jan. 7, 1942. The fewest field goals made by a Mountaineer team during the shot-clock era was 10 against Cincinnati on Jan. 30, 2008, a 62-39 defeat against the Bearcats at the Coliseum.
 
"We've never gotten beat like this before," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said during his postgame radio show. "Even the team that won (13 in 2013) they played. They tried. At least you could go to the bench and somebody would come in and play harder than the guy that you took out. We're putting guys in who aren't playing as hard as the guys we take out – and the guys we're taking out is because they're not playing hard."
 
West Virginia scored the game's first five points and actually led 14-12 before going ice cold. The Mountaineers made just one field goal for the remainder of the half, that coming from Derek Culver, as the Red Raiders built a 15-point halftime lead.
 
In the second half, West Virginia came completely unglued as Tech consumed its ballhandlers and forced turnover after turnover.
 
"We got big-boyed," Huggins said. "(Matt) Mooney came out there and big-boyed us. He wouldn't let us move so now we're standing there dribbling it and he's reaching in and knocking it away and consequently, we don't see anybody because we're trying to keep him from getting to the ball. He 100-percent turned the game around when they put him on our point guards."
 
Brandone Francis led Texas Tech with 16 points. Jarrett Culver added 12 and Davide Moretti contributed 11 before coach Chris Beard emptied his bench.
 
For a good portion of the second half, Culver was the only Mountaineer player capable of scoring, his points mostly coming from the free throw line. He went to the line 24 times, making 15, to finish with a career-high 23 points.
 
The 24 free throw attempts were four shy of a school record held by Bill Morrison against Pitt in 1920, and the most by any WVU player since 1922 when college basketball was still using a designated free throw shooter. All-American guard Rod Thorn once attempted 23 free throws in a game against George Washington on Jan. 12, 1963.
 
Culver, who also made four-of-10 from the floor, grabbed 12 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season.
 
"The thing that Derek needs to understand is how much better he can get," Huggins said. "He's doing that really not knowing what he's doing. If he'll listen and he'll learn Derek will be a special kind of player."
 
Besides Culver, the rest of the team was just five-of-29 from the floor. Center Logan Routt, who didn't get into the game, was ejected in the second half for tripping Mooney while he was sitting on the bench.
 
Texas Tech shot 52.6 percent to improve to 18-5, 6-4 on the season. Tonight's victory completes a season sweep of the Mountaineers for the Red Raiders.
 
West Virginia has the rest of the week off before facing Texas Saturday night at the WVU Coliseum.