Sentences with phrase «because playoff positioning»

Not exact matches

Portland would head into the last week of the season - One point behind RSL and Seattle, knowing at least one of them has to drop points because they play each other; or - One point ahead of SKC and in a playoff position heading into Vancouver; or - Tied with SKC (and the tiebreaker would be close depending on how many goals Portland can score on Colorado), one point behind Seattle, and two behind RSL, again knowing that at least one of RSL and Seattle must to drop points.

Larson and Busch, the third seed, also are well positioned to go on deep playoff runs because of how they performed during the regular season.

It can't be that teams in the playoffs are in difficult positions because of good management and our being in a good position is just luck.

We had picked him up for the playoffs because we had an injury at the position.

Leaving aside the basic position's basic problems — the SEC won seven straight national titles purportedly because its teams were more tested, there's a long layoff between the regular season and the Playoff, the SEC schedules an SEC - SoCon Challenge every November — the argument applies at least as well to the Pac - 12 as it does the SEC.