You are looking live at the return of Terry Henderson. No. 15 strutted out of the tunnel, buds in ears, and started hoisting 3s. The third went in and then, like all good shooters, he followed with a layup to build a streak. Savvy.

The Mountaineers are better with him, as we learned the past three games, and he’ll make a difference tonight. Henderson had 17 points and made 3 of 8 3-point shots in the home win against the Sooners last month.

And then he got sick.

In his career against the Sooners, he couldn’t be more uneven, really. In the Old Spice Classic last season, he was 1-for-6/0-for-2 and had two points and five rebounds. In the home game against Oklahoma last season, he was 7-for-14/6-for-11 and had 21 points and two rebounds. Then in the return game here at the Lloyd Noble Center, he was 1-for-3/1-for-3 with no rebounds.

Good news? He’s back. Bad news? The pattern suggests a bad game, if you believe in patterns.

I don’t, but I know he’s practiced the past two days and went through a walkthrough today and he obviously went quite some time between practices and workouts. You have to be reasonable with your expectations for his wind and his legs (but I’ve seen him dunk four times in this pre-game warmup the team is going through, and he seems to have a good bounce about him as he goes through the routine).

If he gives you 20 minutes tonight, I feel like that’s a lot, right? I might start him to make the most of whatever adrenaline he has and then see how he feels after he sits up and gets down again. I’m not sure I want him warming up and then sitting on the bench to start the game.

But I’m not the guy with the third-most wins among active coaches.

(Update: The starters tonight are Nathan Adrian, Remi Dibo, Devon Williams, Eron Harris and Juwan Staten.)

And I suppose it’s right to mention this: WVU felt pretty good Saturday afternoon about getting used to playing without Henderson.

Here’s the challenge tonight: Make the best of a good situation. The Mountaineers haven’t made the best of bad situations this season — no real comeback wins of note, an 0-9 record in games they fall behind by 10, etc. — so it would behoove them to take advantage of good news, the kind that hasn’t come around too often this season.

You know come around all the time? Game posts. Hit me.