Nothing personal, Toledo. It was strictly business.

We’ll see if it proves as usual.

On an afternoon the Rockets basketball team celebrated the Todfather — as the student giveaway shirts proclaimed in a playful homage to successful longtime coach Tod Kowalczyk — Marshall made the hosts an offer it couldn’t defend Saturday at Savage Arena.

The result: an 85-73 Toledo loss that felt like a flashback.

After a promising first half, a double-digit lead vanished in a blink, one long-bombing Marshall shot after another. The Thundering Herd splashed in 11 3-pointers in the second half while the Rockets had few answers of their own, inside against 7-foot-4 man-mountain Matt Van Komen or out. UT shot 40.6 percent overall and just 31.6 percent (6-of-19) from beyond the arc.

Again, it all felt a

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