The women give their battle a timeout when customers arrive.
With the Wolverines trailing by 2 points with 11 seconds left, Michigan's Chris Webber called a timeout when the Wolverines had none left.
He thought about calling a timeout when the Knicks fell behind by 10 points in the first quarter but chose not to.
Inexplicably, the Bulldogs wasted a timeout when Alabama lined up first-and-goal at the Georgia 1-yard line in the third quarter.
"I called a timeout when Magic had the ball in his hands and everyone started to really question my ability as a young coach.
What he did was not unlike a basketball player -- say, Michigan's Chris Webber during the N.C.A.A. championship game in 1993 -- drawing a technical foul for calling a timeout when his team had none left.
State trailed by a point with a chance to win the game in regulation, but Justin Gainey fell to the floor with the ball and called a timeout when his team had none.
SUNS 103, SUPERSONICS 99 Wally Szczerbiak called a timeout when Seattle had none remaining with 15.1 seconds to play, allowing Phoenix to pull out a victory against the visiting SuperSonics.
Fans on the couch, announcers in the booth, even players on the sideline — in last week's case, a perplexed Peyton Manning, arms raised in a "what are we doing?" gesture — often have a cooler sense of when to call a timeout, when to let the clock run, when to run or pass or punt.
Many of the 16 teams remaining have been aided by last-minute blunders — a halfcourt shot lofted long before the buzzer, a timeout when leading in the final seconds, a misstep across the backcourt line, missed free throws, poorly timed turnovers and — in the case of Butler and Pittsburgh — back-to-back fouls, with less than two seconds left, that defied explanation.
In 2009, the Cleveland Browns were given a fourth timeout when the referee failed to record a timeout taken earlier in the second half.
