Sentences with phrase «hold of a playoff spot»

Do they have more than enough time to grab hold of a Playoff Spot.

It's normal really — as the regular season weeks go by and teams realize they have only a few chances left to grab hold of a playoff spot — it's bound to get more intense.

Not exact matches

They held the 16th and final playoff spot heading into the final week of the Regular Season and really had no room to spare.

That 6th spot is very crucial in terms of the Playoffs as the teams seeded 7 - 10 will have to win an extra game to hold the crown at Season's end and in a Single Elimination Playoff setting you don't want extra games.

The Falcons have looked extremely sharp on defense over the last two weeks in holding one of the league's top offenses to just 13 points last week and Carolina to only 10 points to clinch a playoff spot in Week 17.

Texas was initially opposed to the idea of trading Darvish, as it instead wanted to hold on and wait for a run that could propel it closer to a playoff spot.

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.

The Cubs don't need this kind of consolation and «get»em next time» speak, though, as they were 49 - 66 with the second - to - worst record in the NL on this date in 2014 — and last held a playoff spot at this point in the season in 2008.

After beating No. 9 Detroit on Saturday, the Heat entered Sunday holding the eighth and final playoff spot — four games ahead of the Pistons and just 0.5 games behind No. 7 Milwaukee, two games behind No. 6 Philadelphia, 2.5 games behind No. 5 Indiana, three games behind No. 4 Washington and 3.5 games behind No. 3 Cleveland.