Arkansas-Pine Bluff men’s basketball head coach Solomon Bozeman is just a month into his first Division I head-coaching gig, and thus far, it’s been a struggle for the Golden Lions.
Pine Bluff is off to a 1-8 start to the season with its only win coming against the NAIA Arkansas Baptist Buffaloes. So, yeah, the 33-year-old head coach was a bit frustrated in Wednesday’s road loss to 19th-ranked Iowa State. So frustrated, in fact, that he resorted to making his team run actual sprints in the middle of the game.
He called timeout with 18:20 remaining in the second half, and instead of drawing up a play, he had his team running baselines. Check it out:
I’ve never seen this before. Arkansas Pine Bluff’s head coach called a timeout last night just for his players to run baseline to baseline. You might see that in AAU, but not college basketball.pic.twitter.com/B3sy2lhtio
— Michael Swain (@MSwain247) December 2, 2021
We’ve seen college head coaches get angry with their team over the years, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Division I head coach make players run baselines during a timeout. That just doesn’t happen in college basketball, and it was such a small-time look for Bozeman to have his team do that against a power-conference opponent. He basically showed up his own team.
But it did seem to wake up the Golden Lions players as they played a far more competitive second half despite the 19-point loss to the Cyclones. That’s still no way to win over a team, though.
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