The path to a fourth consecutive outright Mid-American Conference championship begins Tuesday as the University of Toledo men’s basketball team travels to Athens to take on the Ohio Bobcats.
Not since Cincinnati from 1947 to 1950 has a team won four straight MAC titles all to itself.
Unlike the previous three seasons, the Rockets are not entering the month of January riding a wave of momentum. They are 6-6 and coming off two consecutive losses.
“We need to take this break and look at ourselves in the mirror and ask each other, ‘What can we do better so we can play as hard as we can from start to finish?