CLEVELAND — It could have been nothing short of the worst loss in Toledo basketball history.
Instead, it might well go down as a mile marker on the way to the best moment in Toledo basketball history.
Welcome to the madness of March, where the line between delirium and despair is thinner than a shoelace, where it takes but one moment — be it shining or shadeful — to lift hearts or shatter them.
The top-seeded Rockets’ 72-71 thriller over Central Michigan in Thursday’s opener of the Mid-American Conference tournament was the latest reminder that this isn’t the month to ask how the job got done.