Mark Pope's woeful timeout strategy is something everyone is finally waking up to. For whatever reason, Pope simply does not like calling timeouts, and on Tuesday night in College Station, that stubbornness cost Kentucky a game they once controlled.
A "bystander" approach to a 27-3 collapse
Kentucky held a 30-18 lead with 8 minutes to go in the first half after a Malachi Moreno layup. From that point until the halftime buzzer, the Cats made exactly one more field goal. During what ended up being a 27-3 run over the last eight minutes of the half, Mark Pope called just one timeout.