Sentences with phrase «conference teams have played»

Not exact matches

But under the newly proposed rules, teams ranked seven through ten would compete in a play - in tournament to determine the final two playoff spots in each conference.

«The play - in proposal that has generated the most discussion, according to several sources: two four - team tournaments featuring the seventh, eighth, ninth, and 10th seeds in each conference.

The Illini, who had previously not lost a conference game, bowed to Wisconsin 66 - 65 when the Badgers» Albert Henry scored a layup with two seconds to play to give his team its only lead of the game.

Finding a way to near the.500 mark in conference play or against top 25 teams would help; last year, they went 3 - 6 in the Big XII and were just 2 - 5 against ranked teams.

I mean what possible value could being the lead dog on a top - 20 team in one of the 2 - 3 top conferences in the nation — playing for a Hall Of Fame coach — have?

Depending on the conference affiliation, a No. 1 team might not have to play a top - ranked team in its bowl, and the only way a No. 2 team (which, in many years, might be just as deserving as No. 1) might have a shot at the title is if No. 1 loses to somebody else.

Just about any BCS conference team would be 3 - 0 after playing this slate, but that's not the point; Tech has dominated these teams better than anybody has, and it is a very good sign that the Red Raiders are in position to have a good year.

Vanderbilt's admissions standards are by far the most rigorous in the SEC, and to thrive in the Eastern Division — Vandy plays conference powerhouses Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee twice a year — the team has had to track down kids from well beyond the South.

That the Tigers — last year's biggest surprise with a 12 — 2 record and a No. 4 finish in the AP poll — were anything less than elated after a win over a Top 25 team that played in a BCS bowl last January shows how expectations have dramatically changed at a school that hasn't won a conference title since 1969.

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.

Couldn't believe what I was seeing... a conference team would've played better than us after we scored the goal.

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.

Conference play has officially begun in college basketball and that's good news for teams like UNC Wilmington and Vanderbilt who have struggled to cover this season.

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 night.

The two teams opened conference play and the Volunteers took home the victory 67 - 56, just three games after the Gators had fallen to Rutgers in overtime (guard Mike Rosario's old team, no less), and it seemed like Florida was on the way down.

There may be no more beloved 1 — 2 team in America right now, nor any season in which otherwise disinterested viewers have clamored so anxiously for the start of Sun Belt Conference play.

To me, it's just a relic from when the league had 12 teams and you played the teams in your conference 4 times a year and the other conference 2 times a year.

Such is the advantage of having power - conference recruits and playing against a team from the Summit League.

Upsets are especially common earlier in the season, against non-conference foes (tOSU NC team got beat at home badly by a 4 win VT team) and later in the season by conference foes who have years of experience playing each other.

This year Eaton and his team will be traveling all over the Rocky Mountains, with four conference games that have to be played away, and their last four games of the year away.

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).

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.

I think Le Prof has said during his press conference that he'll play mostly a senior Gunners team for this our FA Cup match today against Southampton.

Adding just one team would complicate scheduling; the conference currently has its 10 members play nine - game, round - robin schedules in football.

The Gunners started poorly in the domestic league as well but have largely put that right and, as Wenger reminded us all in the press conference today reported by the Arsenal website, our last game was an excellent away win at Leicester City, a team that had started like a rocket, were playing very well and had not lost a game until last weekend.

Had the Blue Raiders won just one of the three neutral - site games they played against teams currently in (Auburn, Miami, USC), they'd probably be okay even after last night's Conference USA quarterfinal loss to Southern Mississippi.

Both teams, if unbeaten, would play conference championship games against less - than - stellar opponents.

Once we had our sample selected, we hypothesized that teams with a losing record would be greatly undervalued in conference tournament play.

Newton didn't discuss the play — or much of anything — during the postgame press conference and has since been accused of quitting on his team by many fans and analysts.

It would be hard if that team didn't even play in their conference title, but if their strength of schedule was strong enough, it could happen.

When a conference champion that would normally have a bowl tie - in is selected for the Playoff — say, the SEC champion that would normally play in the Sugar Bowl — and no other team from that conference is in the top 12, going outside that group to select a team from the proper conference is how we ended up with Illinois getting massacred by USC in the 2008 Rose Bowl.

He played in an offense - friendly conference in a well - coached attack for a program that has more talent than almost all of the teams that it plays.

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.

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.

That could mean expanding the playoff so that teams from every conference had a real chance, or it could mean Power 5 schools only played each other and limited the playoff to their membership.

Last season Boston College did something that no other major conference team had accomplished since 1976 — they went winless in conference play for both football and basketball.

Travis Ford's team has lost three in a row and are now sitting at 4 - 5 in conference play, having fallen all the way to 7th place.

Baylor at Oklahoma (Saturday): No Big 12 coach has suffered more from the influx of coaching talent into the conference than Scott Drew, whose watched an extremely talented team fall from the Top 15 to a 2 - 7 record in conference play.

Historically underdogs have provided additional value against conference opponents since the familiarity between teams levels the playing field, which disproportionately benefits the team getting points.

In his first press conference since the team arrived in Indianapolis, Bill Belichick said that Vollmer had the cast removed from his foot and that he was close to playing against the Baltimore Ravens.

If, for obvious monetary reasons, the various postseason conference tournaments continue to be held, the regular - season conference - championship teams should have the opportunity to play the winner of the postseason tournament, should they be upset in the tournament.

Since 2005, high - scoring teams have performed exceptionally well in conference games — particularly when playing on home turf.

We also explained how underdogs have traditionally performed better in conference games, as the familiarity between teams levels the playing field and disproportionately benefits the team getting points.

By using our Bet Labs software, we were able to isolate conference tournament games where both teams had played the previous day.

In recent years scholarships had been reduced from 18 to 15 a team, more high school stars had chosen schools at which they could play immediately instead of big - name colleges where they would be substitutes; new conferences with big arenas and instant TV exposure were springing up; and, most important, stall tactics had been making scores closer.

Cris Romero has been at Lafayette Tennis Club since July of 2007... He has been playing tennis since 1987... He played number 1 and 2 singles and number 1 doubles during a two year stint at Napa Valley College where the team was Conference Ch

The Thunder will need wins like that against Western Conference playoff teams, even San Antonio has also been terrible lately, and they'll need to play like they did to earn those victories.

Cris Romero has been at Lafayette Tennis Club since July of 2007... He has been playing tennis since 1987... He played number 1 and 2 singles and number 1 doubles during a two year stint at Napa Valley College where the team was Conference Champions both years... Cris took lessons from Steve Stefanki whose brother Larry Stefanki is currently coaching Fernando Gonzales... Cris has also worked at Green Valley Country Club under Ki Kroll and Meadowood Country Club under Doug King as assistant pro in the 90's..

look no further than FSU after they lost their QB in week 1, and they have a team littered with 5 star talent, playing in a weaker conference.