Toledo will travel an hour up the road to take on Michigan in the first round of the 2023 edition of the National Invitational Tournament on Tuesday in Ann Arbor.
The Rockets will take advantage of an opportunity to play more basketball, but remain disappointed after failing to clinch an NCAA Tournament berth with a MAC Tournament Championship Game loss to Kent State on Saturday. Tod Kowalczyk’s squad went on a 17-game win streak and won the MAC regular season for the third-straight year, but with the loss to the Golden Flashes, now find themselves in the NIT for the fourth time in five seasons.