Briggs: Why Toledo's Kowalczyk keeps scheduling game others say is 'crazy'

FINDLAY — It is one of the unique games on the college basketball calendar, a contest as palatable as it is puzzling.

“My coaching friends think I’m crazy,” Tod Kowalczyk said.

Every other year, the Toledo basketball coach takes his team down I-75 to play an exhibition at the University of Findlay, where inside a two-story brick building in the middle of campus awaits a little gym and a big challenge.

It’s the kind of game no other Division I team would entertain, a no-win scenario if there ever were one.

Volunteering to play one of the top Division II programs in the nation ... in their raucous sound trap of a gym? Have you lost your mind?

But, to his credit, Kowalczyk embraces the madness.

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