Sentences with phrase «championship game last»

THE FAVORITE: St. Mary's played in the state championship game last year, and with Gabby Green finally back from an ankle injury, there's no reason to expect much dropoff.

«The moment was big, the crowd was big, playing in the championship game last year, I thought that we would be more poised... The more Northeastern made big shots, we started to press and guys thought «Hey, I got ta go out there and make a play,» and it actually hurt us.»

They displayed the kind of defense that helped get them to the national championship game last season, forcing the Blue Demons to commit 18 first - half turnovers and miss 14 of their first 15 shots.

«The thing that changed it for me was the NFC championship game last year.

Not exact matches

After winning his sixth consecutive world championship in 2015, USA Today's Nancy Armour called Uchimura the «greatest gymnast ever,» noting that the last time he finished second in the World Championships or Olympics, Aaron Rodgers hadn't ever started an NFL game.

What you really think is that you've already seen more than enough of that woman and her boring husband, and that even if next Friday weren't the opening game of the NBA championship series you still wouldn't want to be with them — not for any reason, not under any circumstances, not if they were the last people on earth, not in a million years.

Saturday night was the night Alabama fans had been waiting for ever since last year's fourth - quarter loss to the Gators in the same championship game.

He'd like to see his team at least get back to the SEC championship game, after missing last year's.

In last year's Canadian national championships he dominated the best 16 - to 18 - year - olds in the country, scoring 18 points in five games.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

The two programs have faced each other in each of the last 10 Division I championship games.

Tonight's Patriot League Tournament final between the top - seeded Bucknell Bison and second - seeded Colgate Raiders will be the last championship game until Saturday morning.

Flanagan High School is headed to the Class A state championship game next weekend after defeating Columbus 30 - 17 last night.

After 254 days and 97 games, the Philadelphia Flyers concluded the longest season in pro sports history last week by winning their second straight NHL championship.

(The Indians won that Series in six games, the team's last world championship.)

For several moments, it seemed as though Gonzaga's quest to make it back to the Final Four and avenging last year's national championship game loss would end before it ever really got started.

The Colts are the last unbeaten team, and unless they stumble two or three times down the stretch against a relatively easy schedule, they could end up playing all their postseason games indoors: AFC divisional and championship games at home, and Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit.

For Joe Paterno, the defining moment of the 1982 championship season came not in the last seven seconds of the pivotal Nebraska game, when quarterback Todd Blackledge completed a winning touchdown pass to second - string tight end Kirk Bowman, who happened to be a former offensive guard nicknamed Stonehands.

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.

After lobbying its way into a BCS berth last season, No. 2 Texas could be left out of this year's championship game

Long before the Wildcats» 65 - 0 loss to top - ranked Florida last Saturday — the 15th time in 71 games under Curry that Kentucky has given up at least 40 points — his ineptitude in the Bluegrass State was obvious to just about everyone except Kentucky athletic director C.M. Newton, who is closer personally to Curry than to Rick Pitino, the basketball coach who led the Wildcats to the 1996 NCAA championship.

Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide won another national championship season last year, and drew 78,526 spectators to Bryant - Denny Stadium Saturday for their spring game, called the «Golden Flake A-Day Game.&ragame, called the «Golden Flake A-Day Game.&raGame.»

Michigan was on the brink of losing for the fourth time in its last six home games and knocking itself out of national championship contention before Sept. 1.

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As his dad, I'd assigned him to ladle cabbage to the homeless in soup kitchens, and as his coach, to break the press in the last second of one - point, double - overtime championship games.

That team won every match that year, all the way up until the last match of the season, the NCS Division I championship game, when No. 3 seed Liberty - Brentwood handed the Mustangs a stunning 2 - 1 defeat.

Well, the Dodgers did win a division title last year, and the 1984 Tigers won a world championship without even one game started by a lefthander.

Brian Daboll was hired as Alabama's new OC after Steve Sarkisian took the Atlanta Falcons OC job (another connection) after last year's national championship game.

Pitino told his U of L team after a five overtime loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 that he wanted them to win the last seven games of the regular season, then the Big East Tournament title and then the national championship.

They had won 36 of 48 games from that day in August until the last one in September, and after sweeping the Phils in a bizarre doubleheader the night before for their 23rd and 24th straight wins at home, the championship of the National League East seemed within the Pirates» reach.

Last winter, when they were sophomores, Lawrence North won the Indiana large - school state championship; Oden averaged 14 points (taking only nine shots per game from the field) and 10 rebounds, and shot a mind - boggling 71 % from the floor while often guarded by three opponents.

It has won its 13 other games with the same pattern of play that took it to last year's championship: an exquisite defense that one of these days may hold a rival to no points at all, and an undistinguished offense that often stutters so badly in the first half it may someday score no points at all.

Reduced role or not, there was Abdul - Jabbar on the floor with 14 seconds left in a do - or - die Game 6 of the championship series against the Detroit Pistons last season.

They won their last national championship in»99 and lost a year later to Oklahoma in the title game.

FOOTBALL — NFL: GREEN BAY, playing with its third Western Division title safely won, subdued the surprisingly plucky last - place Los Angeles Rams 20 - 17 to set up a championship game with New York on Dec. 30.

Since then Duke has won the tournament twice and been to the Final Four twice; it had also won four of its last five meetings with the Tar Heels, including last year's championship game.

The Seminoles are a traditional powerhouse that has spent the last five years playing in either a BCS bowl, a New Year's Six Bowl or the national championship game.

In the next - to - last game of that season, which was the CIF Division III state championship, future Golden State Warrior Klay Thompson put on a show to lead his team from Santa Margarita - Rancho Santa Margarita to a 72 - 55 victory over Sacramento High.

They went from 4 - 12 in 2003 to 12 - 4 and an AFC West championship last year, and Rivers hasn't started a game yet.

After last year's championship game results, one question will certainly be looming should a rematch occur: Will history repeat itself again?

A few years ago, only a few state championship basketball games were televised; last year, all of them were.

Some will tell of last year's Legion baseball championship in Ransom when Mike batted 3 for 5 and pitched a seven - hit game to win the title.

Grant was going into the game minus Joe Kapp, the holdout quarterback who took the Vikings to the NFL championship last year, but he appeared unconcerned.

He won 63 % of his games as a Met, and he led a team that had been perennial last - place finishers to two pennants and a world championship.

However four wins in the last fourteen games and two of those wins were against championship sides.

The last time the league saw a rating that high was Game 6 in the 1998 NBA Finals, when Michael Jordan and the Bulls won their sixth championship.

After having scored twice in the semifinals, Eaves said on Thursday of Boston College's veterans, «We know Saturday's game is their last shot at a championship.

He was hoping the Royals would get two more runs to make the final score 13 - 0, the same score as in his last high school game, when he pitched a no - hitter for Cleveland High of Reseda to win the 1982 Los Angeles city championship in Dodger Stadium.

One of the keys to Detroit's championship drive last season was the good health of its frontline players; the Pistons» top eight missed a combined 13 games among them.

Having already picked up a World Cup and several Bundesliga championships he certainly knows how to win, but will need better personal stats than the nine goals and two assists in 32 league games during the last campaign.