QUICK HITTERS
•   Toledo (17-12, 8-8 MAC) begins its final week of the regular season with a trip to Kalamazoo, MI  to meet Western Michigan (11-18, 5-11 MAC). Tip-off time is set for 7:00 p.m. with the game being streamed on ESPN3.
•   The Rockets, who still have an outside shot at earning a first-round bye in the 2016 Mid-American Conference Tournament, will be looking to rebound from Saturday's 76-74 home setback to Central Michigan. The Broncos are playing their final home game following a pair of road losses last week to Eastern Michigan (73-62) and Northern Illinois (76-67).
•   UT is currently tied with Northern Illinois (19-10, 8-8 MAC) for the seventh-best record in the  MAC's overall standings, while WMU is tied for the 10th-best record.
•   Toledo is 4-4 in MAC road games, while Western Michigan is 4-4 in league home games,
•   Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk is in his sixth season at UT's helm and has orchestrated a dramatic turnaround since his arrival in 2010. He possesses a 102-90 (.531) record on the Rocket bench, including a 98-62 (.613) win-loss ledger over the last five years.
•   Kowalczyk has guided Toledo to a share of the 2013-14 Mid-American Conference regular season title in addition to a piece of the 2012-13 MAC West Division title.
•   UT notched an impressive 89-62 triumph over WMU in the two team's initial meeting this season. Junior Jonathan Williams poured in 24 points and senior Nathan Boothe tallied 16 points and 10 boards to lead the Rockets. Toledo shot 51.7 percent from the field with sophomore Stuckey Mosley dishing out a career-high nine assists.
•   Boothe topped the Rockets with 23 points, seven rebounds and five assists on Saturday against the Chippewas. UT had a chance to win at the buzzer but freshman Jaelan Sanford's three-pointer was off the mark.
•   Boothe and Williams rank among the MAC's top scorers with Boothe setting the pace at 19.2 ppg and Williams in third place at 17.7 ppg. Boothe also is second in the MAC with 7.1 defensive rpg, third with a team-high 9.0 rpg, fifth with an 82.6 FT% and 11th with 3.5 apg.
•   Boothe, who is second in league play in scoring (20.0 ppg) and third in rebounding (9.1 rpg), was named the MAC West Division Player of the Week for the seventh time this season after averaging 23.0 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 4.0 apg, 1.5 bpg and 1.5 spg in two games last week.
•   UT tops the MAC with 16.8 apg, 75.2 FT% and a 1.54 assist/turnover ratio and is second with 78.7 ppg and a 46.1 FG%.
•   Western Michigan ranks last in the MAC in league games in FG% defense (46.2) and is 11th with a 42.2 shooting mark.
•   Junior guard Thomas Wilder ranks second in the MAC in overall scoring (18.4) and is first in league games with 20.3 ppg.
 
ROCKET ROUNDUP FROM UT'S 76-74 DEFEAT TO CENTRAL MICHIGAN
• The Rockets dropped their fifth straight game to the Chippewas after winning the six previous matchups.
• Toledo committed a season-low five turnovers vs. CMU and has just 11 turnovers in its last two  contests. UT has 35 assists in its last two games for a 3.18 assist/turnover ratio.
• The Rockets are 1-9 when trailing at halftime.
• Toledo is 2-11 when it registers a lower field-goal percentage than its opponent.
• The Rockets have won just once in 11 outings when shooting under 45 percent from the field.
• Toledo lost for just the fifth time in 17 contests when it has made fewer than eight treys.
• The Rockets shot over 80 percent from the charity stripe for the seventh time in their last eight games and are shooting 83.8 percent (134-of-160) from the charity stripe in their last eight contests.
• Toledo has a 5-10 mark when less than four players score in double digits.
• Senior center Nathan Boothe leads the team with 13 20-point outings and has scored in double digits in all but one game this season.
• Boothe has led or shared the team lead in scoring on a team-high 17 occasions, rebounding a team-best 22 times, and assists on 11 occasions.
• Boothe moved into a second-place tie on UT's career free-throw percentage list with Nick Moore (1999-2003) at 83.1 percent. Ted Williams holds the record at 83.3 percent.
• Junior guard Jonathan Williams scored 15 points, marking the 27th time in 29 games this season he has scored 14 or more points.
• Freshman forward Nate Navigato grabbed a career-high seven boards but was limited to just two three-point field-goal attempts. The only other game this season Navigato took fewer than three long-distance shots was vs. Northern Illinois (Jan. 12)
• Sophomore guard Stuckey Mosley has dished out five or more assists in seven of his last nine games. He has a 2.38 assist/turnover ratio (50/21) in this stretch.
• Junior forward Jordan Lauf's three-point field goal streak ended at a career-high five straight games. He took just one shot vs. the Chippewas and has made five of his last six shots behind the arc during this stretch.
 
A LOOK AHEAD
        The Rockets will close out their regular season vs. Eastern Michigan (15-14, 7-9 MAC) on Friday, March 4. The first round of the 2016 MAC Tournament will be held at campus sites with seeds Nos. 5-8 hosting seeds Nos. 9-12.