It’s been pretty dour for a few days now, so here’s a tale to brighten your day. Twitter’s fake Bob Huggins — @FakeBobHuggins — was at the SEC/Big 12 Challenge game, the one West Virginia nearly gave away as a 20-point lead dwindled to just two. After the game, and after more than five years of imitating the real Bob Huggins, the two met.

Ad not by accident, either. It was set up by WVU, a true endorsement of the account and the relationship between its creator and its model.

“I told him he is really funny,” Huggins said.

What does it say these days when Huggins met a man who’s imitated him for years and extended his hand for a shake and not a smack? What does it say that the athletic department is willing to facilitate a meeting, never mind embrace the tweets?

“I think the thing for me that made me feel comfortable is I kept hearing people say, ‘Hey, did you see that Fake Huggins tweet?’ ” Wells said. “This is around the athletic department, among the coaching staff, among the people associated with the program. ‘Hey that one was pretty good. Did you see this one?’ ”

What it says is @FakeBobHuggins is real good. It’s not your typical parody, if for no other reason than it possesses the endorsement of the man it aims to mimic. It has accomplished the mission that began in November 2011, three months before Huggins joined Twitter and when a young professional decided to fill that void.

“Huggins seemed like such an accessible guy,” said the fake Huggins, who, understandably, wants to keep his identity a secret. “The Final Four year I think gave us great insight to him as a person: the speech after UConn, the way he held Da’Sean [Butler] and wiped his tears. I decided my portrayal of Huggins would be maybe just slightly exaggerated Huggins. Or maybe an unfiltered Huggins.”