The Northern Illinois baseball team lost all three games against Toledo this season.
Now the Huskies are trying to avoid a fourth loss to the Rockets as the teams square off at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Avon, Ohio.
Northern Illinois (24-30 overall) enters the tournament as the No. 4 seed after not making the field last season.
Toledo (18-36-1) had a strong showing against the Huskies earlier this year, sweeping the three-game series in DeKalb on May 6-8. However, since that series, the Huskies are 5-2 and their two losses both came in one-run defeats (Eastern Michigan and Ball State.