Bob Huggins is, quite clearly, not a fan of suits.

“The reality is why do you spend $1,000 dollars on a suit when after you wear it three times, it smells and you can’t wear it anymore,” he said. “I don’t know who the first coach was who started wearing a suit, and I don’t know why he did it.”

Yet the WVU men’s basketball coach donned one for the first 21 games this season, a trend that hit a brick wall when Huggins wore an all-gold number while the Mountaineers suffered a humiliating 62-39 loss at home to Cincinnati. He’d gone with the more identifiable pullover ever since.

“Someone brought me a pullover and I coached the second half that way,” he said. “After the game, the AD (former Cincinnati Athletic Director Bob Goin) said it was a great look. He said, ‘I think you look a lot more comfortable coaching like that.’ So I wore it. He liked it. Some people didn’t.”

Everything changed — again — Monday night against Pitt.

Huggins wore a black suit with a blue collarless shirt underneath and a fetching gold boutonniere. Very nice. The Mountaineers won, of course, and solidified their standing on the thing that lacks firmness, substance, or permanence. Asked about it afterward, Huggins was … well, his feelings seemed hurt.

“Of all the people who would talk about somebody’s wardrobe, this group here has no room to talk about anybody. This might be the worst-dressed profession in all the world. Sportswriters?”

My feelings were hurt as well and no less (or more) than two people came up to me to share in my indignation.

Honestly, though, one senses Huggins could coach in a clown suit and still get through to these guys. He was on point Monday night.