Toledo women’s basketball hosts Houston Baptist in a WNIT first-round matchup on Friday.
The Huskies (16-10) travel to Savage Arena for a 7 p.m. start time against the Rockets (25-4).
The game will be a matchup of regular-season league champs. Houston Baptist, which began playing in Division I for the 2007-08 season, received a bid to the WNIT after winning its first Southland Conference regular-season title in program history.
Here are things to know about Houston Baptist entering the contest.
International influence
Ninth-year Donna Finnie, the Southland Conference coach of the year, became the first international head coach in NCAA Division I men's or women's basketball.