Bob Huggins, still haunted about Stephen F. Austin and the NCAA Tournament, hit the histrionics hard Monday night. No. 20 West Virginia won by 41 and was never in the same zip code as danger. Meanwhile, the Mount St. Mary’s team the Mountaineer dispatched by 29 Friday night gave Iowa State a headache Monday night and was within 10 late before losing by nearly twice that.

Huggins is harried, and though that’s only the first game I’ve seen and I won’t pretend to have opinions until after Brooklyn and Illinois and Temple/Florida State, I can see him knitting red flags. Nate Adrian looks like a much improved and very good player. Everything goes through him? Dax Miles hasn’t played, but who’s making shots? Go inside, but to who? Sagaba Konate looks like a gem, but is he dunking over Baylor or Kansas or even TCU?

Hey, could be worse. Could be 0-2 UConn. Could be Temple, which lost at home Monday to New Hampshire, but that New Hampshire team is 2-0 and is coming to the Coliseum Sunday. The Wildcats won a record 19 games last season, led the American East in scoring and return four starters, including leading scorer and first-team all-conference Tanner Leissner.

So Huggins wants and needs helps, and though Miles will be back and the minutes at guard will be appropriated between he, Jevon Carter, Teyvon Myers and Tarik Phillip, they need another. They might need two.

Chase Harler? Beetle Bolden? Those are the choices. “I think there’s a tremendous opportunity for anyone who won’t throw the ball away, who will make open shots, who won’t give up layups in the press, whoever it is,” Huggins said.

That’s Bolden — and it may be Harler, too, for all we know — as he makes his way back from the ACL injury that cost him his true freshman season. You’ll remember, WVU had Carter, Miles, Phillip and Jaysean Paige last season and Huggins was still ruing the loss of Bolden in March. WVU’s liked him for a while, and the absence last season underscores the need for at least one more guard this season.

In Bolden’s mind, though, he’s already back from the knee injury. He had five points and three rebounds and played very smoothly Monday night before a goofy turnover in the second half that actually ended his day. But he’s dealt with a knee injury before, though on a lesser scale, and he vowed he’d be back to normal in time for this season. If nothing else, Bolden sets and achieves high goals.

He told himself long ago he’d dunk, and the maybe 6-foot Kentuckian pushed himself there.

During his brief time with the team when healthy last year, Bolden’s jumps generated a bit of attention. When he was playing in pickup games last fall, teammates would arch a brow or shake their heads when he’d dunk.

But even before that, when he played in the Scott Brown Memorial Classic in April 2015, six months after signing with WVU, Bolden competed in the dunk contest. He threw the ball up in the air one time and let it bounce, jumped, grabbed the ball, whipped it between his legs and dunked.

“The whole crowd was like, ‘Wow,’” he said. “It brings joy to me to be able to get the crowd going like that.”

Some dunks make him feel better, as well, including that landmark moment he had to experience to truly trust his knee again. Bolden dunked again this fall. It wasn’t particularly graceful, but Bolden was grateful it happened the way it did.

“It was kind of a stumble dunk,” he said. “I landed kind of awkwardly to see if I could get my touch and feel back for the game. I was jumping and running and stuff like that and already felt normal honestly, but that first time getting that high and landing, it was a relief.”