We know by now Bob Huggins likes to roll with a sideline look for as long as he wins with it. If he busts out a new pullover or fresh khakis and wins, he rides it until he loses.

We remember he debuted the black uniforms in 2010 against Rutgers because he knew WVU would win and didn’t want to risk losing the first game in them.

Players and coaches are weird like that. Habits matter and some guys are really superstitious.

Now, all of that said, I don’t think Huggins is going to sit Truck Bryant at the start of tomorrow night’s game at Notre Dame simply because WVU won its last game when Truck was the sixth man. I’d have to believe Huggins and all the Mountaineer believe they won because they played a pretty good second half and were just better than Pitt for 38 minutes, 10 seconds. It had nothing to do with fostering good luck and everything to do with needing that game. Why, they wonder, can’t they just do that again, no matter the lineups?

Yet there’s a decision to be made here …

Huggins said he didn’t start Bryant because he needed to rest his point guard. WVU will have five days off between games. Truck should be fresh and, as such, restored to the starting lineup.

Still, as well as that experiment went, as strong as Deniz Kilicli was at the start and as much as he made of the available scoring opportunities, as controlled as Truck was upon entry and through the finish, aren’t you inclined to do that again? Why discard the positives and risk a return to the negatives?

There was an awful lot of good to come out of Huggins’ one-game experiment, one you suspect he had been weighing for quite some time.

The best outcome? It worked.

The Mountaineers won a game they needed to win and there was no backlash or side effect to the lineup change. Bryant played with confidence and control and had one of his better games in a long time.

He gave the WVU bench a scoring boost it desperately needed. He alone scored more points than the reserves had in the previous five games. Bryant had more points in that game than the bench had the previous two games combined.

And he colored within the lines.

“He didn’t take bad shots. He ran the offense. You saw that,” said freshman Gary Browne, who started in Bryant’s spot and, by the way, had his best game in four weeks.

“He’s played here four years. It’s not like he’s a freshman like most of us. He knows how to play the game and he came out and did everything right.”

So my question to you as I depart for South Bend, Ind., where WVU hasn’t won since 1996, is this: Do you sit Truck at the start or do you start Truck at the Joyce Center? I say sit him, not because he’s been bad or because it’s good luck, but because you don’t have to worry about him. You get what you get, no matter when he comes into the game, and you know he’s going to be there at the end.