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Briggs: For Kowalczyk and Toledo, this has to be the year, right? Right?!?!

For the Toledo basketball program, it’s not quite now or never.

It’s more now or ... what is it waiting for?

As the Rockets head into the postseason with hopes of turning their banner year into The Year, the stars in the midnight blue sky have aligned.

I’ll go so far as to call this Toledo’s best team — relative to the Mid-American Conference field and maybe period — since 1980, which, of course, wistfully endures as the year of its most recent NCAA tournament appearance.

Think about it.

Toledo has won four MAC regular-season championships in the past four decades, and the previous three all came with a yeah, but.