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Briggs: If the Toledo women's basketball team gets snubbed, what a joke it will be

Toledo Blade | March 11, 2022

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CLEVELAND — If there is any justice in the hoops world, the Toledo women’s basketball team — winners of more games this season than all but three schools in the nation — will receive an invitation to the NCAA tournament.

Unfortunately, Friday felt like a bad-news-bad-news kind of day.

First, the bad news: The Rockets came up just short in the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference tournament, falling to Ball State, 71-66.

Now, more bad news: The bracketologists have them coming up short on Selection Sunday, too.

Toledou2019s head coach Tricia Cullop huddles with her team after falling to Ball State in the semifinal game of the MAC womenu2019s basketball tournament at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on March 11.

Here’s what ESPN’s Charlie Creme told us when asked if UT is on the outside of the bubble looking in.

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