Briggs: Toledo basketball staff an example worth noting

Really, this should not be a story.

Not in 2020.

And certainly not in college basketball, a sport where the majority of players are black.

But given the times — as a needed hour of reckoning over racial injustice sears the American conscience — it feels like an example worth noting.

In a world in which bosses consistently hire people who look like them, the Toledo basketball program is an outlier, its staff standing out for two reasons:

1. It is the only one in the Mid-American Conference or Big Ten with a white head coach and three African-American assistants.

2. It is really damn good.

“I’m not saying this lightly, because I’ve had some really good staffs,” said Rockets coach Tod Kowalczyk, who…