Don’t worry about Richie Forbes and Lazar Trifunovic.

Yes, neither was on the floor during Wednesday night’s second-half run that turned a one-time 19-point Vermont domination into a two-point lead with 30 seconds remaining.

But, that’s why you shouldn’t focus on those two. It shouldn’t be about who was on the bench during the run, it should be about who was on the floor.

Stars have off nights. When your role players, your “glue guys,” step up and lead a run against a team that many, this space included, think is the most talented in the America East, your team is in pretty good shape.

Chretien Lukusa, Dwayne Jackson, Brandon Herbert and Reggie Fuller have defied expectations this season. Suddenly, even if two parts of the three-headed monster that is Trifunovic, Forbes and Mike Gordon aren’t clicking, the game isn’t over.

Last season, Wednesday’s game would be a 30-point loss. Last season, if the stars weren’t clicking, the team would quit. This season, it becomes a near-win. The role players have become just as valuable as the stars.

Wednesday night it was Jackson and Lukusa who took over. Two guys who have bought into Broadus’ plan. Broadus preaches hard work, energy, doing “the little things.”

“I keep telling these guys, ‘we’re not the Ferraris or the Cadillacs,’” Broadus said. “We are the F-110s. We need to be hard-nosed, grinding them out.”

This is partially true. In the America East, Forbes is a Ferrari. He’s fast, he’s flashy, he can beat you so many ways. And Laz is a Cadillac. He’s big, he’s sleek, he’ll push you around and he looks good doing it.

But Wednesday the luxury cars broke down and the grinders took over. The F-110s. The energy guys. The guys that play like there’s no tomorrow, because their spot in the lineup is anything but guaranteed.

Lukusa could be the most important Bearcat out there. The freshman from Toronto was the final recruit of Al Walker’s staff, and few knew what role he would play in Broadus’ game plan. But Lukusa has found his role as the team’s “glue guy,” which Lukusa said means “when things aren’t going right I’m going to pick everyone up with my intensity.”

He’s been playing this role for years.

“It was the same thing in high school,” Lukusa said. “Coach is big on hard work and every practice I give 100 percent even if I’m not feeling good.”

Walker may have recruited him, but Lukusa is a Broadus guy through and through. Even Lukusa says he never expected this much of a role. But he has it and the team needs him.

Jackson’s the same way. He never found a role in Walker’s offense in his first two seasons. Now Broadus is trusting in him, and he’s proving to be another high-energy guy meant for Broadus’ system.

“Coach always says match his intensity,” Jackson said. “And when he’s going off, we see him like that and it makes us play harder.”

Broadus has the perfect role players for his system.

He also has the perfect stars.

Everyone won’t always click at once, but for the first time in Binghamton University’s Division I history, everyone might not have to.