Toledo might not have been the capital of the basketball land in the 1960s.

On rafter-rattling nights in city gyms and college arenas across the area, it surely just felt like it.

The high schools rolled out talent like a factory line — Butch Komives, Steve Mix, Joe Cooke, Terry Provonsha, Ray Wolford, Al Peake, to name just a few stars — while UT and Bowling Green could play with anyone.

Falcons legends Nate Thurmond and Komives turned Anderson Arena into the House That Roars. Mix and Company rocked the Field House. Between 1962 and ‘68, the rivals made four NCAA tournament trips.

“The talent was incredible,” remembered Marty Holmes, who starred at Central Catholic (‘63) before playing at Marquette.

It was the start of a hardwood revolution, and few players captured the era better th

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