Free beer brought Toledo students back to campus.
Miami (Ohio) brought reality.
With two drinks on the house for the first 250 students of legal age — an irresistible offer for undergraduates still on winter break — the unbeaten RedHawks did not just skip the party Friday night at Savage Arena. They administered a 40-minute sobriety test, delivering an ice-cold reminder of how far the Rockets are from a return to the top of the Mid-American Conference.
Miami 87, Toledo 73.
Yikes.
If the game was a measuring stick, it snapped under the weight of a Miami deluge.