You are looking live at highlights from the 2007 NIT semifinal, the penultimate game in the John Beilein Era and the most memorable moment of the Darris Nichols Era. Degree of difficulty: High. We forget that shot because Frank Young was silly in the final, but that never happens if this doesn’t happen.

Anyhow, Nichols, as you may have known, is an assistant at Florida these days and remains one of Bob Huggins’ favorites, even though he was the point guard’s coach for but one season. But they were reunited in Huggins’ third season when one window closed and another opened for Nichols.

“Darris went and played a year and came back and said, ‘Coach, I want to coach,’ and we made him a G.A. here and obviously helped him get started at NKU,” Huggins recalled.

So to review: Four seasons at WVU, one season at Atomeromu SE Paks in the Hungarian League’s A Division, G.A. at WVU for one season, two season as a full-time assistant at NKU as the Norse transitioned from Division II to Division I (you remember one Nichols cameo in the Coliseum), one season at Wofford, one at Louisiana Tech and now his first at Florida after following ex-Bulldogs coach Mike White from that sideline to this sideline.

“Darris, for his age, has more shirts in his closet than anybody else,” Huggins said.

To think, there could be more. Nichols has risen quickly — and busily — because he’s pretty good at this, but he’s been somewhat picky, too.

“Darris once turned down a job that was a step up from where he was,” Huggins said. “He called me and said, ‘Coach, I don’t feel comfortable.’ I said, ‘Why don’t you feel comfortable?’ and he went through the rationale why he didn’t feel comfortable, and I said, ‘What do you think you should do?’ He said, ‘Coach, I like it where I am.’

“He hasn’t taken every step up. He’s been really level-headed about it, and that was a big pay increase, as well. I think he’s doing it for the right reasons, and I think he’s been very thoughtful and gone to places where he can be successful. He’s doing things the right way.”

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