Call Tod Kowalczyk ahead of the times.
Or call him a poor sport.
But either way, the Toledo men’s basketball coach could have foreseen the debate that — in light of hotter heads prevailing after the Michigan-Wisconsin game Sunday — has monopolized the hoops conversation this week.
Is is time to discontinue the traditional postgame handshake line?
Kowalczyk, for his part, was already way out front.
If you’ve watched a Rockets game lately, you might have noticed the perfunctory ritual has gone the way of the peach bucket and two-handed set shot.
Unlike most schools, Toledo turned the exception of last year’s handshake-free pandemic season into the rule.