SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- When Tod Kowalczyk calls a timeout, the first people off the bench are CJ Buchele, Connor DeRue, Jake Frankiewicz, Ben Doenecke, and Wesley Matthews.
Those five names aren’t as recognizable as RayJ Dennis, JT Shumate, Setric Millner, Jr., Ra’Heim Moss, and AJ Edu, but their presence inside the basketball program is just as familiar.
The quintet of managers are a vital part of the University of Toledo’s men’s basketball machine. They’re the first people to show up at practice to make sure everything is ready. They’re a phone call away to summon for rebounding when players want to workout individually.