Somewhere along the way, Mount Nevada erupted into a flurry of ill-timed turnovers and clanked shot after clanked shot.

Monday’s 85-52 men’s basketball loss to Kansas University at Allen Fieldhouse showed a gruesome pattern of self-destruction by the Wolf Pack, complete with twice as many turnovers as assists, poor shooting and unneeded trash-talking on top of it all.

Nevada senior Kevinn Pinkney was indicative of the crummy Nevada night. The Wolf Pack forward exchanged some lengthy, heated words with a number of Jayhawks late in the first half after picking up a foul, then didn’t have a field goal the rest of the night.

His best chance was a break-away dunk attempt in the second half. Fittingly, the senior bricked it, lost his balance and went tumbling over media representatives seated beyond the end line on Naismith Court.

When it rains, it can really pour.

“We maybe came in a little too hyped up,” said Pinkney, who was 1-of-10 shooting and finished with four points. “I should’ve been ready tonight, but for some reason, I wasn’t. I just played a terrible game.”

Pinkney and sophomore Nick Fazekas came in to Monday’s game averaging a combined 35 points per game, but up until KU emptied its bench in the closing minutes, the two were a combined 3-of-25 shooting against KU. Fazekas picked up several points late and finished with 17, leading all Nevada scorers.

Even he didn’t have anything positive to say afterward.

“It’s frustrating to come out here in a game we wanted to win and to come out and play so bad,” Fazekas said. “Each and every one of us played bad.”

For the game, the Wolf Pack shot 27.9 percent from the field, turned the ball over 18 times and looked so unlike a team that dominated KU a year ago in a 75-61 victory in Reno, Nev.

At 3-1, the Wolf Pack move on to a home game with in-state rival UNLV on Saturday, and Nevada coach Mark Fox is hoping Monday’s performance is a fluke and not a sign of things to come.

If it is, it may never stop pouring in Reno.

“We’re just young,” Fox said. “We folded under pressure. We’ve obviously got a long way to go.”