Don’t tell Toledo the WNIT is meaningless.
Eleven years ago, the Rockets changed the trajectory of the women’s basketball program not only by winning the WNIT, but by welcoming a legion of supporters who jumped aboard the bandwagon and have never left.
“I’m not sure in my time here that I’ve ever seen the community and the university lock arms like that. Never,” said 20-year Toledo athletic director Mike O’Brien.
Many of those fans will be back in Savage Arena Friday night when Toledo hosts Houston Baptist in the first round of the WNIT.
When O’Brien hired Tricia Cullop in 2008, Toledo already had a proud women’s basketball history.