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Six minutes in on Tuesday night, first year Villanova head coach Kevin Willard called the timeout trying to stop the bleeding as Michigan already had a double-digit lead.

Yaxel Lendaborg just crushed a windmill jam and Chrysler Center, another sold-out crowd was rocking.

That's pretty commonplace.

When you fall behind early against an elite team on the road, you try to hold off the high tide early.

The interesting timeout, the unconventional timeout came a little bit later.

10-14 to play first half, 46 seconds after a media stoppage.

Trey McKinney hit a 3. Michigan went up by 13, 29, 16, and Kevin Willard called time again.

You get one timeout that is first half exclusive. It's the use it or lose it timeout.

Anything after that, and it doesn't carry over to the second half.

But you have to wonder if Kevin Willard was thinking,

I don't want my second half timeouts to be irrelevant.

I want to try to stay in it right now.

That's how relentless.

That's how dominant Michigan has been as of late.

A coach oftentimes wants to protect those timeouts,

not quite as much as a second-half timeout when it comes to an NFL or a college football game where you might need to stop the clock,

but second-half timeouts are valuable.

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