Before last week, Toledo volleyball’s entire half-century history fit neatly on two lonely banners in the Savage Arena rafters.
One was for a 2013 Mid-American Conference co-division championship, the other for two trips to the NIVC — volleyball’s WNIT.
The Rockets’ tradition was as thin as it was hard to figure.
In many ways, Toledo seemed built for volleyball to thrive.
This is a place that proudly shows up for women’s athletics — see: the supersized basketball crowds — and Ohio is a volleyball hotbed, with the sport exploding past hoops at the prep level.