{"id":507647,"date":"2026-01-11T03:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/507647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:45:13","slug":"chicago-state-loses-game-on-all-time-timeout-blunder-with-0-1-seconds-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/507647\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago State loses game on all-time timeout blunder with 0.1 seconds left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the situation Chicago State found itself in at the end of regulation in its game against Stonehill on Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>It was basically an unwinnable situation for Stonehill, which needed to somehow steal the ball and get a shot off in less than the blink of an eye. A win probability graphic could very well have read 100%.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And yet &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The game ended as an 85-82 Stonehill win after an all-time blunder from the Chicago State side, which called a timeout on an inbounds play. Chicago State did not have any timeouts left, though, which meant an automatic technical foul and two free throws for Stonehill.<\/p>\n<p>Hermann Koffi made both free throws, which sent the game to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of people still like to reference Chris Webber when this sort of blunder happens, but this goes well beyond calling a timeout while trapped and down by two. All Chicago State had to do was pass the ball into a defender who wasn&#8217;t in the process of shooting, and someone still wasn&#8217;t sure about the inbounds play.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The error erased what would have been a cathartic win for Chicago State, which is now 2-14 and 0-4 in Northeast Conference play. <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nechoops\/status\/2010092337331126288\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Junior guard Doyel Cockrill III had made a 3-pointer with five seconds left to give the Cougars that two-point lead, after stealing the ball on a chaotic play in transition;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Junior guard Doyel Cockrill III had made a 3-pointer with five seconds left to give the Cougars that two-point lead, after stealing the ball on a chaotic play in transition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago State was 354th in the Kenpom ratings entering Saturday, and a loss to Stonehill, which comes in at 346th, won&#8217;t help that effort. The Cougars&#8217; two wins this season are against Loyola Chicago and St. Xavier, an NAIA program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is the situation Chicago State found itself in at the end of regulation in its game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":507648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,227260,5386,1818,227261],"class_list":{"0":"post-507647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-state","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-stonehill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115874412868099032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}