YPSILANTI, Mich. — If Tricia Cullop and her Toledo women’s basketball team were half as cold-blooded as people as they have been as competitors this season, they would have cut down the nets on Saturday.
In Eastern Michigan’s building.
On senior day.
During the postgame ceremony.
But, of course, they are not.
“We let the kids know how many seniors they had,” Cullop said. “We wanted to be extremely respectful.”
Besides, they didn’t need a ladder to feel like they had reached the clouds.
After the Rockets clinched the outright Mid-American Conference regular-season title with a 75-51 thumping of Eastern Michigan, and the coaches hugged and the players bounded onto the court, and their inimitable radio voice, Jim Heller, spoke for everyone when — over the din of a couple hundred delighted visiting fans — he said, “Who saw this coming?