CLEVELAND — One of these years, the confetti will rain and the drought will end.
The Toledo basketball team — for the first time since 1980 — will go to the NCAA tournament.
“Clearly, we feel like we’re due,” Tod Kowalczyk said.
The 10th-year Rockets coach meant his program, though, of course, he just as easily could have been referring to himself.
As Toledo heads off to the Mid-American Conference tournament, Kowalczyk is the face of the double-edged world of life in a one-bid league, where seasons are distilled into three pressurized nights.
The equation is as simple as it is cold.