Sentences with phrase «conference games for every team»

Through four conference games for every team, Marquette has scored 70 goals, seven more than second best Florida.

Not exact matches

For example, if you designate Wednesday to be your «off limits» day when you wouldn't schedule company meetings or conference calls — your entire team would know that there will not be any distractions, allowing your business to clear tasks and get ahead of the game.

Each team has about 25 games remaining, and at the top of each conference, these games will decide crucial battles for playoff seeding and homecourt advantage through the postseason.

Of course, no undefeated team from a power conference has ever been shut out of the BCS Championship Game for a team with a loss.

Whether Arsene Wenger chooses to rest a few first team players for the Champions League away game against Barcelona on Wednesday night remains to be seen, but judging from his comments in the press conference today reported by The Mirror, I would not be at all surprised.

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.

Bradley, a team in the Missouri Valley Conference (here's Missouri on a map for anyone curious) has played in eight games with betting lines and all eight have gone under the closing total at Pinnacle.

Besides, there are a few games on the schedule that hold some sort of playoff implications for teams battling at the middle and bottom of the conference standings.

For voters who may have applied the nebulous «winning team» requirement, the Brooklyn Nets have won 12 of their last 14 games, and at 26 - 16 they own the No. 3 spot in the conference — right behind the Heat (27 - 12) and Knicks (26 - 14), and ahead of the Bulls (25 - 16).

In Tuesday night NBA action, the Pacers beat the Heat in a battle of the two best teams in the Eastern Conference, and the Brooklyn Nets have won two straight games for the first time all season.

They should be highly motivated to do so: while these Lakers would surely not be the first NBA team to come back from a 3 - 0 deficit in a playoff series, San Antonio winning in four would probably allow for Tiago Splitter, who left this game with a sprained ankle, to heal up before a Western Conference Semifinals series.

And for the second straight game, the Miami Heat still blew out an Eastern Conference playoff team, defeating the Atlanta Hawks, 98 - 81, and extending their winning streak to 19

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.

They're 12 - 0 at home, where they've sold out an unprecedented six games, and with a four - point lead in the 12 - team ECAC, the Bulldogs could win their conference for the first time.

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.

For a three team tie it's 1) Division winner 2) Best winning % among all teams tied (I assume this means head to head to head) 3) Winning % w / in division, if all teams in same division 4) Winning % conference games 5) Winning % v. Playoff teams own conference 6) Highest point differential.

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).

For the Seahawks, it puts them among a logjam of NFC teams looking to win their final two games to grab the conference's No. 1 seed.

Wenger said, «I told you in the press conference that for me the important game was today because I knew that first of all to win today was vital to stay in touch with the top teams.

Not really the case for Notre Dame, which plays teams from all over and doesn't have a conference title game in which it can consolidate all of a league's gains.

That might not make for the strongest conference, but it does make for a deliciously unpredictable one, which is why Georgia and LSU, the teams most likely to meet in the conference title game on Dec. 3 in the Georgia Dome, had better watch their step.

Arsene Wenger will definitely not be using the England forward Danny Welbeck against Burnley as he spoke on a press conference you can see in full on the Arsenal website about the striker's length of time out of the game and how it would be a gradual process back into the first team for Welbeck, including a least one game for the Arsenal under 21 side.

For Virginia, added frustration came in the form of them being the only ACC team not to make the tournament's second weekend, despite the fact that they finished first in the conference's final regular season standings, a full game ahead of Duke.

The Warriors (50 - 10 SU, 28 - 30 ATS) currently lead the San Antonio Spurs (45 - 13 SU, 33 - 24 ATS) by four games for the top spot in the Western Conference, but this injury obviously closes the gap between the two teams.

It's a similar story in the Conference Cup for the team, earning their place in the quarter finals in February after their game against Chester on Wednesday 25th November went to knockout stages, with our team winning 2 — 0.

After his magnificent performance in Los Angeles (18 - for - 23 for 279 yards and two touchdowns), gimpy old Kevin Hogan has a reasonable chance of not only leading his team back to the Pac - 12 title game, but winning his third conference title.

While non-conference games fitting these criteria have actually posted a losing record (169 - 185, -24.41 units), teams fitting this criteria have gone an incredible 306 - 222 for +70.1 units and a 13.3 % ROI when playing a conference opponent.

my opinion (you know, the one you so adamantly disagree with) is that it would be better for the game because the 6 best teams in the conference would go to the playoffs.

The 2017 edition of «which team got snubbed by the playoff committee» is in full force, with Ohio State backers blasting Alabama for not making their conference championship game while Nick Saban truthers can point...

If a team has to play Kansas, and has no other choice because it's a conference game, then the most a team can do is beat Kansas so badly it sets a new record for beatings, even the beatings involving Kansas.

In addition, they posted odds for which team will represent each conference in next year's championship game.

This was important to add because many of the results were skewed by teams like South Carolina Upstate, Binghamton, Mercer, and other small conference schools that don't typically have odds posted for their games.

For starters, road teams have gone 253 - 227 ATS (+13.1 units) in conference games while Auburn actually holds the best in - conference ATS record of any SEC team with a 46 - 34 (+9.18 units) mark since 2005.

The return game was strong, which was customary for most Big Ten teams, but unlike a lot of the conference, Illinois had solid kick coverage as well.

Cleveland's defense doesn't leave the team much room for error, but a red - hot LeBron James who has averaged 31.5 points per game in the month of March indicates that the Eastern Conference should still be on high alert.

Since most teams don't begin their conference schedule until the New Year, this system has had just one game match for the current season.

When we focus solely on conference games visitors ROI jumped to +0.1 % versus a -4.8 % ROI for home teams in conference games.

Yesterday's Northern Conference Cup game was a completely different story for our team though, as they powered ahead to a fantastic 11 — 6 victory over Lancaster!

In the Eagles» most recent game, Jimison completed 28 - of - 42 passes for 355 yards and four touchdowns in leading the team to a 35 - 34 victory at Cosumnes Oaks - Elk Grove that secured the school its first Sierra Valley Conference title in six varsity seasons.

Undefeated Wisconsin is now the conference's last best hope for a playoff spot, failing mass chaos in other conferences in the final four weeks — but if the Badgers stumble in the Big Ten title game against a multi-loss East champion looking for one last handful of style points (assuming they survive a visit from Michigan later this month), their résumé likely won't hold up against the other one - loss teams under consideration.

One of the main reasons for this is the high volume of games featuring two small conference teams or thoroughly mismatched opponents.

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich had some choice words for President Donald Trump on Sunday, calling the ex-reality TV star's actions game - show like before his team's opening Western Conference Finals matchup against the Golden State Warriors.

For that reason, it's important to focus on heavily bet games which typically feature teams from the five power conferences: ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac - 12 and SEC.

In those games, teams receiving overwhelming public support have gone 16 - 8 ATS including an 8 - 3 ATS record for major conference teams.

That's way too many for a division setup, since even a nine - game schedule means some teams go years without playing alleged conference rivals.

We've never seen two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff, but if both Georgia and Alabama are undefeated heading into an SEC title game, it'll be hard for the committee to leave one of them out, regardless of the winner.

By beating bad teams, Oklahoma City sustained a 39 - 29 record, good for No. 5 in the Western Conference but just two games up on the No. 10 seed in a wild playoff race.

The 2015 NBA Draft Lottery, which is used to determine the draft order for teams who did not make the postseason, will take place this evening before the start of Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.

It covers the final landing places for the 8 seeded playoff teams pending every outcome of the five remaining games that can alter the Western Conference standings.

«It will be a difficult game for us against a very good team,» he told reporters in his pre-match press conference, «but we'll be going to Milan determined to get a result.