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Briggs: An 'amazing' night for women's basketball and an even better night for Toledo

A great night for women’s basketball.

A greater night for Toledo.

Wow.

In front of a national television audience and a rafter-rattling crowd of 7,082 at Savage Arena on Wednesday, the Rockets did not just beat mighty Michigan … again.

A year after stunning the then-14th-ranked Wolverines in Ann Arbor, they ran their Big Ten neighbors to the north clear out of the gym in a 69-46 win that was as authoritative as it was electrifying.

“I can’t compliment my team enough,” coach Tricia Cullop said. “The effort we had on both ends was what you had to have to beat a really good team.