Really, this should not be a story.
Not in 2020.
And certainly not in college basketball, a sport where the majority of players are black.
But given the times — as a needed hour of reckoning over racial injustice sears the American conscience — it feels like an example worth noting.
In a world in which bosses consistently hire people who look like them, the Toledo basketball program is an outlier, its staff standing out for two reasons:
1. It is the only one in the Mid-American Conference or Big Ten with a white head coach and three African-American assistants.