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INDIANAPOLIS -- Kamar Baldwin may be a freshman playing in his second collegiate game, but Butler coach Chris Holtmann had enough confidence in his point guard to call his number on the final play.And Baldwin delivered.Baldwins pull-up jumper with 0.4 seconds left lifted Butler to a 70-68 victory over Northwestern on Wednesday night. We got the (defensive) switch we wanted, Holtmann said. We wanted to make sure we got the very last shot on goal. Hes one of our guys that can create his own shot.The freshman set up his game-winning basket on the defensive end the previous possession, stealing the ball from Bryant McIntosh with 30 seconds left.Since they switched it, we had the matchup and made the play, Baldwin said.Baldwin finished with 11 points and made a big impression in the first half, scoring seven. He also had three steals, three assists and a blocked shot.Kelan Martin led the Bulldogs (2-0) with 22 points, 15 in the second half. Andrew Chrabascz added 13 points and led the Bulldogs with seven rebounds.Vic Law topped four players in double figures for Northwestern with 17 points, making 5 of 6 3-point attempts. McIntosh had 12 points, and Scottie Lindsey and Sanjay Lumpkin each scored 10.Northwestern shot 48 percent from the field compared to Butlers 38. But the Wildcats made only one more field goal and turned the ball over 16 times to Butlers eight.This one hurts, no questions about it, said Northwestern coach Chris Collins. When it came time to make the plays you do to win the game, they made them.BIG PICTURENorthwestern: Finally playing a major college program after wins over Mississippi Valley State and Eastern Washington, the Wildcats looked poised to win, but blew a 6-point lead with 5:51 left.Butler: After a comfortable win over Northern Colorado in the opener, the Bulldogs saw a five-point, second-half lead go to waste thanks to a 10-0 Wildcat run. Butler showed mettle, trailing 68-67 with 1:03 left before Chrabasczs free throw with 53 seconds remaining tied it at 68.ROLE PLAYERNorthwesterns Gavin Skelly finished below his season average with four points. But he played 22 minutes despite being the 10th man in the rotation, tallying four rebounds, two assists, a block and a steal. Skelly hit a 3-pointer as part of a 10-0 second-half run and his free throw put the Wildcats up 68-67 with 1:03 left.QUICK COMPARISONPost players Chrabascz and Northwesterns Dererk Pardon (8 points, 4 rebounds) played even most of the game, but Chrabascz came through when it counted. Chrabascz hit a 3-pointer to stop the 10-0 Northwestern run and gave Butler the lead with a lay-up with 2:29 left. Pardon was in foul trouble most of the second half and fouled out with 1:51 to go and the game tied 65-65.UP NEXTButler: Hosts Bucknell on Saturday. 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Tests earlier this week revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain for Sabathia, who was hurt in last Fridays start against San Francisco. Its an injury that will require about eight weeks to heal. He finished a disappointing campaign just 14-13 with a career-worst 4. Adidas Nmd Herre Sort . Brazilian national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has confirmed that the veteran goalkeeper is set to join Toronto on loan, saying it will help him be ready for the World Cup. Imagine driving down a highway with no signs. No speed limit indicators. No exit alerts.Thats akin to the final moments of an NFL game, and many times at the end of the first half, too. It can be chaos.And the way some teams butcher time management makes you wonder how they get to the stadium on time. But the way some handle it spurs expansive -- and well-deserved -- praise.Joe Montana used to wink at teammates or crack jokes in the huddle before and during two-minute drills. So did Brett Favre.Tom Brady stares down opponents in such an intimidating manner, you expect defenders to skulk away rather than try to stop him.Yet other star quarterbacks and heralded coaches also have had major struggles with handling the clock. That includes Favre and Donovan McNabb among accomplished QBs, Andy Reid and Marty Schottenheimer among successful coaches.Just last week, Kirk Cousins blew a chance for more points at the end of the first half against the Giants by getting sacked within field goal range. The Redskins rallied, helped by Eli Manning being picked with the game on the line.Several coaches have headed home from losses with timeouts in their pockets. Wonder where they used those.The criticism that comes with it a lot of times is a little unrealistic, says Brian Billick, who coached the Ravens to the 2000 NFL title and now is an analyst for NFL Network. People will comment on it as if there is an absolute right or wrong in how you do things.Someone in technology figured out there are a billion possibilities with regards to score differential: where you are on the field, time remaining, timeouts remaining, personnel on both sides of the ball, all of that. Maybe 500 million possibilities I can do, he adds with a laugh. The other 500 million I struggle with.Billicks point is well taken. Much of how teams handle clock management has to be intuitive. And while the coach or coordinators might be coming up with play calls, they need the players to execute. The old cliche of 11 guys on the same page is specifically appropriate in those situations.For example, at what tempo do you want to run the offense? Are you in need of a quick score or can you use up most of the remaining time to score? Need a touchdown or a field goal?Do the players recognize the need to get out of bounds -- or perhaps stay in bounds?And theres sometimes more to consider.Even in some situations that are similar, theres usually something in there, the conditions on the field, or the game, or the wind, or something else that adds another variable in there besides just point differential and time and timeouts, notes Bill Belichick, who has been blessed with Brady running two-minute and four-minute offenses. IIts interesting how after all of these years .dddddddddddd.. and still every week there are new situations that somebody will bring up, or will come up in another game, or something that well talk about and kind of review our strategy and just say, `Well, this is normally what we would do here, but you know, the way that situation came up, thats not really quite what we want. We want something just a little bit different than that.Colts coach Chuck Pagano has felt the wrath from many sides concerning clock management. In the opener against the Lions, he was criticized for not taking more time off the clock or forcing the Lions to use their timeouts during a drive in which Indianapolis scored the go-ahead touchdown. Detroit drove downfield for a winning field goal.In last Sundays victory over San Diego, Pagano joked that after T.Y. Hilton broke free for a touchdown, that he left too much time on the clock.Billick believes that make-believe can lead to doing the real thing right. He knows that every coach and coordinator in the NFL recognizes that.You have got to practice it and practice it and condition your players to understand that this is not panic, but its a higher level of tempo, he explains. Increase your pace without panicking, understand the parameters. Staying in bounds or getting out; throwing a pass to stop the clock or running because you dont want the clock to stop. Keep a lot of people coached up as best you can in a game.Sometimes you have to be Captain Obvious.One secret to success is certainly having a Hall of Fame-caliber quarterback or other clutch veteran players making sense of the madness. Its not essential -- Billick, for instance, succeeded with Tony Banks and Trent Dilfer at quarterback. But it helps immensely.Take a Ben Roethlisberger, who certainly has the experience to do it, but also because of the confidence he has to hang in there, to take a hit to make a play, Billick says. Sometimes that catches up with a quarterback. But obviously he is good at it and knows what he can get done.The Peytons and Bradys of the world are really good at it, adds Billick in his best Captain Obvious mode. Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers, as you can imagine. What has happened on the field that they have not seen?Of course, they dont succeed all the time battling the clock. When they dont, theyre certain to hear about it.The criticism, Billick concludes, is one of the ultimates in hindsight.---AP Sports Writers Tom Canavan, Kyle Hightower, and Michael Marot contributed.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '