MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia has little time to think about its disappointing performance at Kansas State on Saturday.
 
If it does, then one loss will quickly turn into a losing streak.
 
The Mountaineers allowed the Wildcats to shoot 50 percent from 3-point range and 59.2 percent overall in their worst performance of the season in Manhattan.
 
What makes the 16-point loss to 8-9 Kansas State so puzzling was the fact that West Virginia was coming off perhaps its best all-around effort of the season last Tuesday night in a 32-point victory over TCU.
 
West Virginia couldn't contain K-State guard Carter Diarra, who matched his career high with 25 points, and Xavier Sneed, whose 16 points on Saturday was another typical outing for him against the Mountaineers.
 
WVU fell behind by 24 points early in the second half before going on a 25-7 run to reduce K-State's lead to six with seven minutes remaining, but a couple of missed 3s opened the door for the Wildcats to go on another spurt to put the game away.
 
Most of West Virginia's offense on Saturday came from its bench with guards Chase Harler and Deuce McBride leading the Mountaineers with 11 points each. Forward Gabe Osabuohien contributed a season-high 10 points.
 
West Virginia's starting five of Derek Culver, Oscar Tshiebwe, Emmitt Matthews Jr. Jermaine Haley and Jordan McCabe combined to score just 27 points, although Culver had to sit out most of the first half after getting into early foul trouble.
 
The Mountaineers are going to need more from those five on Monday night against a Texas team coming off a 66-57 loss to Kansas on Saturday afternoon in Austin.
 
It was Texas' 20^th loss in its last 23 games against Kansas and it unfolded like most of the others – the Longhorns playing well but not well enough to win.
 
Kansas' Devon Dotson scored 21 points and hit a key 3 with 2:50 remaining to put the game in the W column for the Jayhawks.
 
Forward Jerico Sims produced a career-high 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting against Kansas and the 6-foot-9, 240-pounder will be a handful for West Virginia's bigs on Monday night. The UT backcourt hit five 3s in the first half but connected on just 1-of-9 after intermission to finish the game 6-of-20 from behind the arc versus the Jayhawks.
 
Guard Matt Coleman III was the only other Texas player to reach double figures with 11 points.
 
Coleman (12.0 ppg.) is one of three double-digit scorers for the Longhorns with the other two being 6-3 guard Courtney Ramey (11.1 ppg.) and 6-4 guard Andrew Jones (10.5 ppg.).
 
Containing those three and an emerging Sims will be major concerns for the Mountaineers on Monday night.
 
Texas is 12-5, 2-3 and has split its two Big 12 road games this year, losing at Baylor, 59-44 and winning at Oklahoma State, 76-64.
 
Monday's game will be the 20^th overall meeting between the two schools with Texas owning an 11-8 record. The Mountaineers have won four out of seven against the Longhorns in Morgantown, but Texas took last year's game here 75-53.
 
The contest will tip off at 7 p.m. and will be televised nationally on ESPNU (Rich Hollenberg and King McCure). MSN from Learfield IMG College radio coverage on affiliates throughout West Virginia and online via WVUsports.com and the popular mobile app WVU Gameday begins at 6 p.m. ET.
 
Satellite radio users can also access the broadcast on Sirius and XM Channel 83.