Sentences with phrase «big games conference»

Why it was chosen: Back when I helped start off the Official Nintendo Magazine podcast (now no longer on iTunes, tragically — thanks, Future Publishing), there was a running joke that any time a big games conference like E3 rolled around we always wanted to see Donkey Kong Country 4.

In fact, we dare say this is probably Denmark's biggest games conference to date, with over 20 speakers, both from the AAA games industry and indies, and an expo with 25 games showcasing some of the most creative uses of alternative control methods, new gameplay mechanics and just simply fun games.

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Think of an athlete warmed up before a big game, or the president at a press conference.

In Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, Curry hit a 3 - pointer then stared down former Thunder big man Serge Ibaka while the ball was in the air.

He tells the crowd around him how he won a bet in Nebraska: a bribed official in the Big Eight Conference «misofficiated» an important football game, and Jack, who was privy to the official's chicanery, won hundreds of dollars on the game.

It would be on brand for WVU to go 11 - 1 and get shut out of the Playoff because a.) the Big 12's strength of schedule fell apart, b.) they won't play a conference title game, and c.) some random terrible thing happens to them along the way.

The Big Ten Tournament Championship is a rematch of each team's final regular season game, which Ohio State won to prevent the Spartans from winning the conference title outright.

Ohio State will be No. 2 going into conference - championship weekend, and the Buckeyes should be set up to advance to the BCS title game with a win over Michigan State in the Big Ten championship.

Stoops made them the surest thing in the Big 12 and retired having won his final 16 conference games.

Pro: This allows for the further maintenance of conference - affiliated bowl games (which assures buy - in from big bowls like the Rose) and technically allows for more than four teams to have a shot at the title if things play out just right.

And it was the debut game for the Big Ten Network, selected to show off the conference's strength.

But in a recent interview, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany laid out his main argument for OSU getting into the Playoff, if it beats Wisconsin: playing nine conference games during the regular season and having no FCS games on its schedule.

Note that the East Region First Four matchup between the Radford Highlanders and Hampton Pirates will be a conference game next season, as the MEAC's top seed is moving to the Big South after this academic year wraps up.

However, winning both home games would get them to 32nd, which should be enough with an 18 - 12 record and 8 - 10 Big 12 mark, especially with good non-conference wins over Wichita State and USC and conference victories over Kansas and Texas Tech.

With three games left to be played (@Indiana, @Penn State and Ohio State), the Wolverines not only have a shot at making a great bowl game, but also winning the Big Ten Conference.

Despite their familiarity with the big game, Sunday marks the first time they've met for the conference title since 2005.

I had more fun watching this team than I might've had if they coasted through conference play and made an uninspired performance in the Big Dance a la UVA, in no small part because of their lack of «ELITE» status and willingness to make the gritty plays game in and game out.

It's not that a day of games topped by Michigan State and Ohio State clashing in Urban Meyer's first taste of conference play as a Big Ten coach is boring; it's just that that game and Baylor's trip to West Virginia represent the only two games between ranked teams on Saturday, and it feels like this week may have cashed its This Game Will Be Better Than You Think chit on Washington's upset of Stanford on Thursday nigame and Baylor's trip to West Virginia represent the only two games between ranked teams on Saturday, and it feels like this week may have cashed its This Game Will Be Better Than You Think chit on Washington's upset of Stanford on Thursday niGame Will Be Better Than You Think chit on Washington's upset of Stanford on Thursday night.

As the Big 12 season progressed, and the scouting report on Baylor became widespread, the Bears went 8 - 6, dropping all four games against Missouri and Kansas, the only two teams in the conference with even comparable talent.

Now, with three road games remaining in four conference contests, Syracuse might struggle to put together enough wins to win its final Big East race.

The freshman guard had another big game off the bench with five of his 21 points coming down the stretch, and Kentucky added several clutch late baskets to rally past Georgia 66 - 61on Sunday night in its Southeastern Conference opener.

Oklahoma lost two games before Big 12 play, and outside of West Virginia's win over BYU and Oklahoma State's win over Pitt, the conference lost almost every important non-conference game, tanking the league's perception and strength of schedule metrics.

Throw in Syracuse's passing game and UConn's defense (led by the best player you should probably have heard of by now, sophomore linebacker Yawin Smallwood), and you've got quite a few things to like about Big East football, especially considering it just lost its conference champion (West Virginia) and a seemingly elite prospective member (TCU) to the Big 12.

Under his watch, the Big Ten has not only kick - started the «conferences starting their own network» game, but he also stole a historically strong, Midwestern program to add to his historically strong, Midwestern conference.

Drifting through the Southland conference, three years in the Big West (despite being west of very little), two stays as an independent, and more than a decade as a Sun Belt also - ran, the Ragin» Cajuns had never been to a bowl game and never threatened to get noticed by the college football world.

Back in August, I expressed skepticism about the perceived «end game» of four 16 - team conferences that people have been discussing for a long time, and I will remain skeptical as long as the Big East maintains at least a few major (ish) programs.

But the Big 12 decided to add a conference championship game for next season, even though it only has 10 teams and no divisions, in part because the conference believed it would improve its chances of making the Playoff.

The Big 12 currently has six teams within a game of the conference lead (and remember: two of those teams will play for the title at the end of the year).

Kansas Statesliced Missouri's conference lead to a game and a half by defeating Colorado65 - 58, as Ed Nealy pulled down 16 rebounds and Tyrone Adams scored 20 points.In their earlier victory over Nebraska, the Wildcats established a Big Eightrecord for field - goal accuracy (77.1 %) by sinking 27 of 35 shots.

In the days after the Michigan game he had Penn State athletic director Tim Curley write a letter to Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney, calling for a top - to - bottom review of conference officiating.

Of course, the Orange has yet to play its first Big East conference game.

The winner will join the Oklahoma - Oklahoma State Bedlam winner (OU's the big winner of the week, vaulting all the way from No. 7 after beating TCU and maybe even putting itself in the top group) and possibly Baylor in the holding pen; the Bears and Cardinal would also have games during conference championship weekend (and Stanford would have a real chance to impress against USC or UCLA), but the others in this group would be sitting and waiting.

Deep down we all know we will bottle it as per usual, Wenger will revert bsck to his favourires Mert straight bk in fort he big game (hes already making excuses in press conference to drop gabby) why has campbell been dropped to bench?

The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the hope of reaching their second national championship game since 2012.

Key Game Traveling cross-country in the middle of a brutal conference schedule to face ateam that has been to three straight Final Fours is asking for trouble, but theIrish — who ranked 12th out of 16 in scoring defense in the Big East lastseason — need all the toughening they can get before the Big Dance.

He started an over-the-air Big East network that carries conference games back to the participating teams» markets.

«It's pretty obvious that they're going to be 7 - 0 getting ready for that big rival game against Michigan State in East Lansing, they've got to go to Iowa and they've got to go to Ohio State,» Herbstreit said on a conference call with reporters today.

Unlike other conferences with separate divisions, the Big 12 Championship will simply be between the top two teams in the conference, so there's a good chance that we could see a rematch of this game in a few weeks.

He was the tallest player in our conference, but against kids his own size he always showed up and had big games.»

MIchigan State is complaining right now that Ohio State doctored the game film that the Big Ten conference requires them to share.

This is the pinnacle of the Southwestern Athletic Conference season, perhaps bigger than the conference title game that takes place a wConference season, perhaps bigger than the conference title game that takes place a wconference title game that takes place a week later.

In the Big - 12, TCU travels to Oklahoma to take on the Sooners in what could be a make - or - break game for the conference as a whole.

Depending on how the conferences are scheduling in their individual leagues, playing those big out - of - conference games early is probably going to become part of what teams need to do,» Osborne said.

The Pac - 12, which was always an offense - friendly league, has retained that status and has been joined by the Big XII as conferences where games played in the 30s and 40s are the norm.

To be precise, Miami lost 11 games in 13 years as a member of the Big East and won or shared eight conference titles.

Montana wound up winning the game and will face Eastern Washington in the Big Sky Conference tournament championship game.

And while the Big 12 continues to see its ratings tamped down, the conference's big games are only revving Big 12 continues to see its ratings tamped down, the conference's big games are only revving big games are only revving up.

Texas opened with a Week 2 win over an awesome Ohio State in Columbus, blazed through the Big 12 — only one conference foe stayed within 19, and the Big 12 title game was a 70 - 3 shellacking of Colorado — and took a last - second win over a wonderful USC in the Rose Bowl, one of football's greatest games.

After three games, # 16 Baylor remains the only undefeated team in the Big 12 Conference.

The Big 12 must add two teams and a conference championship game!