CLEVELAND — All season, Tre’Shaun Fletcher put the Toledo basketball team on his broad shoulders.
Friday night, in the biggest game of the Rockets’ season, Marreon Jackson and his teammates returned the favor.
They put Fletcher on theirs.
After carrying their star off the court in the opening seconds, the Rockets lifted the felled Fletcher on a night that will endure forever in school lore, rallying to a 64-63 victory over Eastern Michigan in the Mid-American Conference tournament semifinals.
Do you believe in miracles?
Whether you do or not, the Rockets are one game away from dancing like it is 1980.