TOLEDO, OH - Toledo will hold its eighth-annual 'Rockets for the Cure' day on Saturday, Feb. 13, as the Midnight Blue & Gold host reigning Mid-American Conference champion Ohio at 2:00 p.m. The MAC cross-division match-up will help benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure of Northwest Ohio and the Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center. The Rockets encourage everyone in attendance to wear pink in support of cancer research.
The goal of 'Rockets for the Cure' is to provide breast cancer education to the community, provide encouragement to the survivors fighting now and their families, celebrate the survivors that have won the fight, remember the ones that were less fortunate and pack Savage Arena with 5,000 or more Rocket Fans in pink.