The Final Four match-ups Saturday are not the only college basketball games that will be played that day.

Mid-American Conference regular-season Toledo will compete in the Women's National Invitational Tournament Championship on its home court against USC. The Rockets have played every tournament game at home and have beaten teams from the Southeastern Conference (Auburn, second round; Alabama, third round) and the Big East (Syracuse, fourth round).

Toledo defeated Charlotte 83-60 in the national semifinal to advance to the championship game. Three of the Rockets' five tournament wins have been by double digits.

Eastern Michigan eliminated Toledo in the semifinals of the MAC Tournament in Cleveland March 11. The Rockets had claimed an outright regular-season conference title, ending Bowling Green's six-year stranglehold on the title.

Toledo is the only MAC school to ever have made it to the WNIT championship game. The Rockets lost to Kentucky in the 1990 title contest.

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