CLEVELAND — This was supposed to be the year the Toledo women’s basketball team learned how the other half lives.
After three straight Mid-American Conference regular-season titles, the Rockets lost two former league players of the year to graduation and their winningest coach to Miami, and — in this turnstile era — faced the real possibility of losing everyone else to the transfer portal.
Then …
Toledo hired Ginny Boggess.
And a funny thing happened.
Every one of its top eight scorers with eligibility remaining — including hometown star Sammi Mikonowicz — did not just stay.