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Briggs: With big-time hire, Bowling Green shows it is going all-in on hockey (finally!)

BOWLING GREEN — Between the University of Toledo and Bowling Green, our Division I schools sponsor 34 varsity programs.

There is one that has won an NCAA national title — and one that can do it again.

That’s Bowling Green hockey.

The orange-sweatered boys of winter are the exception to the mid-major rule, and, I must say, I love that BG is beginning to truly double down on its unique opportunity.

How else to interpret the ongoing $5.75 million facelift to the Slater Family Ice Arena and now the splash hire of Dennis Williams — who just last year led superstar Connor Bedard and Team Canada to a gold medal at the World Junior Championships — as its ninth hockey coach?