University of Toledo men’s basketball coach Tod Kowalczyk wanted to test his team early in the season with an environment that mimicked the Mid-American Conference tournament in March.
So Toledo headed to Florida for the Gulf Coast Showcase and aced the early test, winning the tournament with three victories in three days last week.
“First of all, I said before we went that this was the best mid-major tournament in the country and I think it was,” Kowalczyk said. “We went down there for a variety of reasons. We have a lot of good Rockets supporters in the Fort Myers/Naples area.