Sentences with phrase «first big tournament»

In their first big tournament in the fall portion of the season, they finished a strong second to Texas at the Tucker Invitational in Albuquerque despite the absence of junior Jesse Hibler, who played in a Nike tour event that week.

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Telfer is also a big presence on the Canadian case competition circuit, playing host to the first annual Diversity and Inclusion MBA contest in 2016 and sending teams to the John Molson School of Business tournament every year.

What was really important was that the big three — King, Evert and Goolagong — were playing the same tournament for only the third time this year, the first two being Wimbledon and Forest Hills.

As if the big names and the money were not sufficient, the promoters went after the Buck Rogers fans by announcing plans to use the Electronic Line Judge «on a full - court basis for the first time during a major tennis tournament.»

With Ozil, Sanchez, Ramsey, Koscielny and Giroud all missing due to their various tournament engagements, here is the pattern and squad that may help out in the first two matches and how it can be most competitive as soon as the big boys return, seamlessly.

Last week, Michigan overcame an emotionally draining travel experience to win their first Big Ten tournament since 1998.

Although Algeria have already made history in this year's tournament by reaching the knockout stages for the first time, they are now desperate to get one over their big - name opposition after a controversial incident from the 1982 World Cup finals.

We're supposed to be as unproductive as possible at work these next two weeks in March, first for conference tournaments, and then for the big dance.

The Sony Open is the first tournament of the PGA Tour to start on time in 2013, and the event, held in Hawaii, hasn't drawn the big names recently it once did.

The good news for the Jayhawks is that sophomore big man Udoka Azubuike is making progress recovering from the knee injury that sidelined him for the Big 12 tournament and limited him to only three minutes in the first - round win over Penbig man Udoka Azubuike is making progress recovering from the knee injury that sidelined him for the Big 12 tournament and limited him to only three minutes in the first - round win over PenBig 12 tournament and limited him to only three minutes in the first - round win over Penn..

Baylor entered the Big 12 tournament as the No. 4 seed, earning a first - round bye.

He led the Rams to the second round of the NCAA tournament in his first year on the job, but has not been able to get back to the Big Dance since.

Billups's first embrace of the big moment came when he was in the sixth grade and his team at Skyland Rec Center piled into a brown 1982 Ford Bronco, bound for a tournament four hours away.

Barring the Wildcats getting upset before the final, Xavier will need to solve this team to win its first ever Big East Conference Tournament.

The Big South Tournament's first round kicked off Monday night with four underdogs playing.

The Big Ten Player of the Year, Nik Stauskas, seems to have it all right now: National Championship runner - up belt, Big Ten Championship, potential Big Ten Tournament Championship today, likely first - round pick, and a very attractive girlfriend, Taylor Anderson.

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.

Although his side were unable to hold to what would have been a valuable point, they certainly made a big impression by getting on the scoresheet for the first time in an official UEFA recognized tournament.

It marks the second - biggest comeback in NCAA tournament history, behind BYU's rally from 25 down to beat Iona in the 2012 First Four.

Georgia stayed alive for the 2012 NCAA Tournament with a big win in the first round of the SEC Tournament on Thursday.

Russia knocked out Lithuania in the first quarterfinal of the Olympic basketball tournament, 83 - 74, thanks to a big double - double from Andrei Kirilenko

This has corresponded with a career - best run of success for Wright — an 82 — 11 record, a No. 1 and a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament — but Villanova has also been upset on the first weekend of both Big Dances.

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.

The biggest mover in Round 2 has been Sergio Garcia, who jumped from a tie for 10th after the first round into the tournament lead.

While this has been coming for a while — indeed, it's arguably been coming ever since Sepp Blatter opened an envelope, then opened his mouth, then opened up one of the biggest cans of worms in FIFA's noticeably wormy history — today is the first official step towards moving the tournament away from its usual June / July time slot.

First, as the regular season champions, they were upset by Vermont in the finals of the America East Conference Tournament, preventing a trip to the Big Dance.

On the first day of the Big Ten tournament, eight teams will battle for the right to advance and face the top four seeds.

But it was still jarring to watch Wisconsin walk off the Madison Square Garden floor after a three - point loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten tournament and come to grips with the fact that the Badgers would not be in the bracket for the first time since 1997 — 98, four years before Bo Ryan took over.

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.

The 1963 NCAA title game between Loyola of Chicago and Cincinnati was surely one of the most memorable in tournament history: It was the last title game to be decided in overtime; the last one before UCLA began its intimidating reign of 10 championships, including seven in a row, over the next 12 years; the first one to be played under a lucrative new six - year television contract that launched college basketball into the big - money era; and, most significantly, the first in which the majority of players on both sides were black — or, as most of the nation was still saying back in March of 1963, Negro.

The Purdue Boilermakers, finally playing in the Big Ten Tournament with their leader and best player, Robbie Hummel, overwhelmed the Nebraska Cornhuskers, playing in their first ever Big Ten Tournament, 79 - 61.

It's the coach who needs to constantly post on social media, or get his or her team into the bigger tournaments with tougher competition — or like what coach McKim did — schedule your first 14 games on the road.

Walker put the Huskies on his back for one of the greatest March runs in college basketball history, first winning five games in five days to capture the Big East tournament title, and then winning six more straight to earn a national championship.

Picked to finish last in the preseason Big West Coaches poll, the Hornets finished ahead of Cal Poly to play in the first round of the league tournament.

Prior to Wednesday night's Big East Tournament first round games, the conference named Butler Bulldogs head coach Chris Holtmann the Big East Coach of the Year.

Still, Marquette is at home on Sunday, and if the Golden Eagles are going to lock up the first conference tournament spot in program history, they have to lock up a win in a big spot down the stretch.

The Golden Eagles host the top four teams in the Big East as they look to raise a conference tournament trophy up for the first time in a while.

With a record of 22 - 9 after falling in five sets in the Big East championship match, Marquette is headed to Ames, Iowa, for the first round of this year's national championship tournament.

February 5 — Manchester City have become the first of Europe's big clubs to confirm they will be playing in the International Champions Cup (ICC) tournament this summer in the US.

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 first Thursday of the 2015 tournament produced the biggest single - day win other than the Super Bowl for both the MGM and Golden Nugget sports books.

Remember, only the first six teams qualify for the Big East tournament.

Regardless of the results today, Marquette's victory keeps then in the race for a Big East tournament bid and a potential home game in the first round.

This is a big deal, as only the top six teams qualify for the conference tournament, and Marquette is trying to get back to the postseason for the first time since 2014.

In 2018, Marquette women's lacrosse will be looking to qualify for the Big East tournament for the first time in program history as well as attempting to finish over.500 for the first time as well.

The Big Dance tips Thursday but before it does lets look back at some of the biggest upsets in the First Round of the NCAA tournament.

First, along with professions such as big - time sports and entertainment, academic science is what economists call a tournament field, which makes it susceptible to cheating.

The first ever big tournament I ever watched was APEX (2014).

The first night we met he took me to the SoHo House, and he asked me to be his date for the opening night of a big tournament in Las Vegas.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.