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Briggs: NCAA selection committee is joyless and clueless, and the Toledo women keep proving it

Hindsight might be 20-20, but sometimes foresight is even clearer.

The Toledo women’s basketball team on Sunday confirmed what we already knew: the Rockets belonged in the NCAA tournament.

I do not mean to belabor the point, because Toledo has moved on — and is now moving on in the WBIT after a thrilling 72-71 win over St. John’s at Savage Arena.

But the selection committee deserves to remain on the hook.

The first weekend of postseason action yielded smoking-gun proof that the nation’s top hoops jury was every bit as joyless and narrow-minded as we feared.