Box Score Texas got 22 points from Andrew Jones and 21 from Courtney Ramey to down 20^th-ranked West Virginia 67-57 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, Monday night.
 
The Longhorns, without Jerico Sims and Jase Febres and dressing only eight scholarship players, were running out of guys with forward Royce Hamm Jr. fouling out and Kai Jones, Brock Cunningham and Will Baker finishing the game with four fouls each. 
 
But as long as Texas could come up with three other players to put on the floor with Jones and Ramey, it stood a good chance of defeating the struggling Mountaineers.
 
The issues West Virginia had on Saturday in its overtime loss at TCU were prevalent again tonight. The Mountaineers shot 47.6 percent from the free throw line, missed eight of 11 from 3 and mishandled the basketball 15 times.
 
"You can't go (10 for 21) from the foul line, you can't continue to shoot 20 percent from 3 and you can't continue to miss shots two feet from the basket and we do all of that," West Virginia coach Bob Huggins said.
 
At times, Texas (17-11, 7-8) simply chose to foul West Virginia's bigs whenever they got the ball close to the basket and took their chances with the Mountaineers at the free throw line. WVU complied by missing 11 and leaving several more points out there because some of the misses were the front ends of one-and-ones.
 
"If you add in the missed front-ends it was more like 10-for-30," Huggins said.
 
Whenever West Virginia tried to chip away at the Longhorn lead, which was consistently in the seven-to-eight-point range, either Jones, Ramey or Matt Coleman III came up with a big shot, usually a 3.
 
Jones hit 5-of-9 from and Ramey was 3-for-5 from behind the arc. Coleman III collected 13 points to give Texas' backcourt trio 56 of its 67 points tonight.
 
The Longhorns, winners of three straight, shot 52.4 percent from the floor for the game, including 42.9 percent from 3.
 
"They've done this for the last three games," Huggins said. "You start seeing the ball go in and you start figuring it's supposed to. Then you shoot it with a lot of confidence. Those are the guys that made them against K-State and TCU."
 
West Virginia (19-9, 7-8) received 14 points from freshman Oscar Tshiebwe and 12 from sophomore Derek Culver, but the interior advantage the Mountaineers enjoyed in their 38-point victory against Texas  the first time around in Morgantown was completely negated tonight.
 
Texas matched WVU's 29 rebounds and grabbed seven offensive boards, a couple of those coming late when West Virginia was scrambling to get extra possessions to try and get back into the game.
 
"We haven't been good defensively, but you hold people to 60 points and you ought to win - if you're any good," Huggins said. "We're at about that and we can't score more than that."
 
Today's loss extends the Mountaineers' conference road losing streak to six straight. WVU has also dropped 17 of its last 18 games away from the Coliseum in Big 12 play dating back to 2018.
 
WVU will have one more road opportunity at Iowa State on March 3 before the regular season wraps up in Morgantown against Baylor on March 7.
 
Before that, West Virginia will face Oklahoma at the Coliseum on Saturday afternoon  in what is now looming as a very important game for the Mountaineers. WVU is below .500 in conference play for the first time this season and his now tied with Texas for fourth place in the league standings.
 
The Sooners and TCU are a half game behind West Virginia and Texas at 6-8 with three games remaining before the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championships begin in Kansas City on March 11.
 
The top six teams in the regular season avoid playing the Wednesday night game in the conference tournament.