Tod Kowalczyk has coached a lot of very good players in his 35 years in college basketball, including at Toledo.
It’s no slight to any of them to say one stands above all.
Walk into Kowalczyk’s office at Savage Arena, look around at the many old jerseys on the wall, and is that ... yep.
Framed next to his desk is a Dwyane Wade Miami Heat jersey, inscribed with a long note.
Call it an oversized thank you card.
Long before Wade became an NBA superstar and — as of Saturday — a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, he was a skinny freshman at Marquette University, blessed with mounds of talent but still finding his way.