You are looking live at pregame warmups at the Coliseum, where tonight we are treated to another color-coordinated affair. Saturday was a gold rush and tonight is for blue. WVU will again wear the appropriate color, when in the past we’ve seen WVU wear white or gold when the crowd was supposed to wear gold or blue. And I’ve yet to see striped uniforms for a Stripe the Stadium or Stripe the Coliseum game, and that is so wrong. It’s the little things.

But that picture is a little more meaningful because it’s Jevon Carter and Jaysean Paige getting up some shots 90 minutes before the game. And why is that significant?

Witness Paige after Saturday’s loss.

Jevon Carter shot 1 for 10 from the floor and 1 for 7 from 3-point range. Huggins sat him for a few minutes after only 32 seconds when Carter committed one turnover and contributed to another on the team’s first two possessions. He’s now shooting 37.3 percent from the floor and 29.2 percent from 3-point range.

“He’s got to get in the gym,” said Paige, who was asked if teammates could help the sophomore more. “No one can help him in a conference like this. You’ve got to get in the gym.”

Hmmm. But … but maybe that was one person, an older player trying to be a good teammate. And there they are before the game putting up some shots. Isolated, no?

No?

WVU played its second straight game without starting guard Daxter Miles, who hasn’t practiced since Feb. 12, the day before he strained his right hamstring. He was replaced again in the starting lineup by first-year junior college transfer Teyvon Myers, who made his only shot and had two points and a turnover in just eight minutes. Huggins said he wasn’t sure when Miles and his 10.1 points per game would return.

“We need everyone, especially this late in the season,” Williams said. “I know it’s tough this late in the season. People wear down and get injured. That’s understandable. You’ve got to do what you have to do to put yourself back in the game or back on the roster to give this team some minutes if you really love the game and want to get back and help.”

Hmmm. But … but that’s two people. And these are frustrated people. Two losses in a row. Four in seven games. The Big 12 washed away Saturday. Not isolated, I guess, but contained, right?

Wrong?

“I’ve done this a long time, and I know this: The people I want on my side are people who are going to be pissed off and not feeling sorry for themselves,” Huggins said. “I don’t want those guys on my side. I don’t ever want to go into competition with people who feel sorry for themselves and with their heads down.

“Oklahoma is the No. 3-ranked team in he country and they just lost two in a row before us, and they came in here and seemed to me like they were OK. That’s how we’ve got to respond. If we don’t respond that way — and I told them this in the locker room — you’re not much of a competitor.”

Welp! This ought to be fun then. Saturday/Mondays are chores, but WVU has had the home floor both times. Two losses in three days ought not happen — not when the first team challenged and conquered WVU’s physicality, now when the second team traveling here couldn’t hold serve at home 20 days ago.

So while I’ve made a theme out of uniform colors and true colors, here’s the real color tonight: Translucent. I don’t think that’s a color, but try and follow me here. What you see is what you get with this team, good or bad, win or lose. If these players and this coach can’t summon more or enough tonight, they might be in trouble. If they can and do, then it’s onto the next one, a winnable road game at sliding Oklahoma State.