After a first-half timeout, Washington Coach Lorenzo Romar sent his players back onto the court with a message.
"We can win this ballgame, but y'all have to help me out!" she shouted to her players during a first-half timeout of their district playoff basketball game.
As Cook was walking back to the St . Johns bench during a first-half timeout, he clapped and said something to Murphy.
HARTFORD — Agnus Berenato, the effervescent Pittsburgh coach, greeted her players with lusty high-fives during a second-half timeout Monday night, not that the Panthers needed much encouragement.
It was such compelling theater that many Duke fans — awaiting their team's late game against Creighton — stood and cheered for the Eagles when they returned to their bench for a second-half timeout.
When he and the First Lady, Michelle Obama, appeared on the scoreboard's "Kiss Cam" during a first-half timeout, they declined the chance to pucker up and were lustily booed.
But he also was called for a delay-of-game penalty (on the first play of a drive), was forced to burn a first-half timeout at the line to avoid another penalty and watched as a reverse handoff nearly cost the team a safety.
— Michigan State was trying to fend off Memphis, trying to do what it does almost every March and advance to the Round of 16, when two of its best players, who are also best friends, got into a spat during a second-half timeout.
TRENTON — Arizona State was still stubbornly sticking around, so Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma suggested to his players during a second-half timeout that it was time to go on a run, as if he knew they could summon points just because he asked.
Male cheerleaders from two Philadelphia schools brawled at the Palestra when St. Joseph's mascot, the Hawk, interrupted a La Salle routine during a second-half timeout.
The most baffling statistic: five unused second-half timeouts at the end of regulation.
