Sentences with phrase «big tournaments against»

«I want to play in big tournaments against top players, and with all due respect I don't see that happening in Jamaica any time soon.»

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If Oklahoma State can win its rubber match against the Oklahoma Sooners in the Big 12 Tournament opening round on Wednesday, they'll get a chance to defeat Kansas for a third time in Thursday's quarters.

Kansas hasn't received much respect this season as a legitimate contender, finding itself as a 1.5 - point underdog in the Big 12 tournament championship game against West Virginia and a 3 - point underdog in the Elite Eight against No. 2 Duke.

The Wildcats» consistent success against the conference's top seed could be a big reason why Villanova is going off as the favorite on the odds to win the Big East Tournamebig reason why Villanova is going off as the favorite on the odds to win the Big East TournameBig East Tournament.

National Player of the Year candidate, Victor Oladipo, made this 360 - slam look easy during the end of the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament against Illinois.

During the Big Ten Tournament for example, the Badgers managed a to score a total of 33 points against Penn State, 16 of which came from Taylor.

The Michigan State Spartans are 13 - 1 straight up and 12 - 2 against the spread over their last 14 games according to the OddsShark College Basketball Database, helping the team earn a Big Ten championship and a two - seed in the NCAA Tournament.

This week, Woods is in the Friday afternoon side of the draw so Big Cat and the PGA Tour will be directly up against four NCAA tournament games.

A couple favorite Syracuse games I've been to in person include the 2006 Big East Tournament, 6OT game against UConn and the Midway Carrier Classic against SDSU on the USS Carl Vinson.

Even if they turn out to be just the usual sort of spurious rumours that we will be seeing a lot more of in the coming months, the Arsenal boss still looks set to have a big problem with his star striker, all because of the strange decision to hold another Copa America tournament this summer, even though the last one was held less than a year ago, with Alexis scoring the winning penalty against Argentina to win it for the first time.

Our failure against the unfancied French club Monaco is fresh in the memory again as the second legs of the tournament are upon us and maybe that is why our Big Effin German has brought up the topic in a statement on the Arsenal website.

After winning the Big Ten championship, the Wolverines have won two consecutive games in the NCAA Tournament, including an impressive upset against 2 - seed Louisville.

Despite their impressive victory against Iowa State on Saturday, bettors clearly aren't sold on Caleb Swanigan and the Purdue Boilermakers — a surprising occurence given the Big Ten's dominance over the first two rounds of the tournament.

Arsenal have broken the curse of not beating big teams in a major tournament by beating man city as well as Giroud breaking the curse of not scoring against big teams!

SAN ANTONIO — Before Michigan became the hottest team in college basketball and rode a 14 - game winning streak to a Big Ten tournament title and the national championship game against Villanova, the team's captains gathered at the end of a grueling summer looking for a bonding exercise.

They had enough juice left to rip off a comeback in an eventual 75 — 73 victory that tied the second - biggest in tournament history, short only of Brigham Young's 25 - point rally against Iona in the 2012 First Four.

Arsenal get the desired home draw for the opening leg against the tournament favourites Atletico Madrid, and we now have the biggest task ahead of us to date.

With that being the case, Marquette's regular season finale on April 28th in Colorado will have the Big East regular season title and the # 1 seed in the conference tournament at stake, regardless of what the Pioneers do next week on the road against Providence.

MU is on a two match winning streak against SHU after losing to the Pirates in the Big East tournament semifinals in 2014.

Spread betting trends (all records are against the spread): Kentucky 7 - 1 in nonconference games, 8 - 2 NCAA Tournament games as a favorite, 16 - 5 to Big East, but 3 - 7 off straight up win.

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Barkley has had some dazzling performances and scored some fantastic goals, especially this one against Manchester City: His wonderful season was summarised by a much deserved call - up to the England World Cup squad for the biggest footballing tournament in the world in Brazil this summer.

Last week we found a big upset in the Africa Cup of Nations with a 21/10 winner that Guinea - Bissau would not lose their first ever match in the tournament and they did us proud with a last minute equaliser against Gabon.

The Golden Eagles will miss the Big East tournament after losing a lead against # 15 Butler on Saturday.

Suso played a big part in much of what was good about Spain's football in the tournament, playing either from wide on the right, in central midfield, or even as a centre forward for a period of this game against Uruguay.

However, the Golden Eagles are winless in their last three contests against the Blue Demons, which includes home and road losses and a Big East tournament draw in 2014 where DePaul advanced on penalty kicks.

MU's last win against the Bulldogs came in November of 2013 when Adam Lysak scored a golden goal in the Big East tournament semifinals.

Marquette's last victory against Providence came in the 2013 Big East tournament championship match.

St. John's last scored against the Golden Eagles back in the 2010 Big East tournament, when MU got a 3 - 1 victory.

Marquette has now won all seven meetings against Xavier and has made it to the semifinals of the Big East tournament in 10 of their 13 seasons in the conference.

Jenna Rosenthal Watch: With eight assisted blocks against Creighton in the Big East tournament semifinals, Rosenthal surpassed Peggy Gross» school record of 118.

The youth tournament in France featured some of the biggest names in world football, and after defeating Scotland in the semi-finals, England went into the finals Saturday against an Ivory Coast team that had beaten the Czech Republic to book its own place in the final.

Up Next: Marquette will square off against DePaul (no surprise there) in the Big East Tournament finals for the second straight year.

Marquette went 5 - 3 this season against teams that qualified for the NCAA tournament, with two of the losses coming against Creighton, the only other Big East team to make it into the field.

The Golden Eagles return to Milwaukee for the Big East home opener against the Hoyas and a rematch of the 2013 Big East tournament championship against the Bluejays.

On Saturday night, Lindsey Gosh and Courtney Kintzel play their final regular season match in the McGuire Center against DePaul as the Golden Eagles head towards hosting the Big East tournament next weekend.

With a Big East tournament slot already in hand, the Golden Eagles look to solidify their seeding with matches on consecutive days against the Pirates and the Wildcats.

MU is on a three match winning streak against SHU after losing to the Pirates in the Big East tournament semifinals in 2014.

inRead invented by Teads It would be another big blow for the Black Stars, if Andre Ayew is unable to feature against Mali, since they will be missing the services of Baba Rahman, who has been ruled out of the tournament after picking up an injury against Uganda.

The scheme involves pulling the world's biggest StarCraft 2 tournaments and leagues into an overarching structure where players are given a global ranking, and compete against each other to be crowned super-mega-planetary-ultra champion.

Though PBE.AK has gained the right to compete against the top Tekken players from all over the world, he is also left without a way to prepare for the big tournament.

The mobile version comes complete with a surprisingly big single - player career, and players can compete in four race types against AI riders as well as join online tournaments that match real - life championship weekends.

Players compete against each other either online or offline to qualify for the Grand Final, the final tournament where the FIWC World Champion is crowned and receives the prize money of USD 20,000 as well as an invitation to the FIFA Ballon d'Or to meet the biggest football stars in the world.

Just like the recent event in America, SEGA Cup Europe will pit players against each other in the possibly biggest Virtua Fighter tournament around, with a cash prize of 7,000 Euros.

As the father of four boys who spends more time on youth baseball fields then any other adult in the United States, I was a bit dismayed to read about a 17 - year - old pitcher in Prince George's County, Md. who fractured his right arm while throwing a pitch in a baseball game — and then somehow obtained a $ 52,703 jury verdict against the tournament organizer for building a mound that was «too big and too deep.»

Somehow he obtained a $ 52,703 jury verdict against the tournament organizer for building a mound that was «too big and too deep.»