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Briggs: 'I hope people ain't giving up on us.' Can crashing Toledo men find March spark?

Too little, too late?

Or did the Toledo men’s basketball team find its pulse just in time?

We’re about to find out.

As the Rockets wheeze to the finish line, the flicker of life they showed Tuesday night against league-leading Akron in cutting a 24-point second-half deficit to three will go down as the last stand in a lost season.

Or it will prove the first sign of their second wind.

“I’m not ready to chalk this year up,” forward Javan Simmons said after the 96-87 loss at Savage Arena. “There’s no way.”

“I hope people ain't giving up on us,” he added.