Just when all seemed lost Saturday, the Toledo women’s basketball team called a thrilling late audible.
Sounds kind of like last season, no?
It remains to be seen if the Rockets can redeem this mystifying winter. But for one day, a year after a similarly middle-of-the-road team rode a scalding eleventh hour into the NCAA tournament, the magic returned to Savage Arena in their 69-68 overtime win over Western Michigan.
A game won and lost several times over gave way to a final sequence with 3.4 seconds left and the Rockets trailing by a point.
In the timeout, coach Tricia Cullop diagrammed a curl play to find guard Mikaela Boyd cutting to the basket.