February 18, 2015: Kevin Stallings manages to call three timeouts in the last three seconds of the game, including — on the final possession — calling a timeout after an inbounds pass to halfcourt. Of course, Vanderbilt still loses at Florida by a score of 50-47.
If you switched over to ESPNU prior to the Vanderbilt game on Tuesday, you saw the tail end of the Pitt-NC State game, and you saw a familiar sight: Kevin Stallings ending a game with unused timeouts.
For 17 years, Vanderbilt fans got used to the coach hoarding timeouts for the last minute of the game — you know, in case the coach absolutely had to draw up an inbounds play with two seconds left, as though the team wouldn’t know what to do without a reminder from the coach.