Sentences with phrase «national championship game»

With the college basketball national championship game on tap tonight, it's easy to forget that it's also...

Two of the nation's most historic programs will face off in tonight's national championship game as the Kansas Jayhawks (32 - 6, 16 - 2 Big 12) take on the Kentucky Wildcats (37 - 2, 16 - 0 SEC).

The Jayhawks won the Big 12 conference tournament for the third time in six seasons, earned a share of the Big 12 regular season title for the 14th straight year, and are now in the Final Four with the hope of reaching their second national championship game since 2012.

With the college basketball national championship game on tap tonight, it's easy to forget that it's also MLB opening day.

Each is playing for a spot in respective NCAA national championship games on Monday or Tuesday.

Omari Spellman, quarterback of Team Spellman, issued the following statement to SB Nation on the beach football game controversy after Villanova's national championship game victory over Michigan.

Brunson and Bridges are likely gone, but several key pieces, including national championship game hero Donte Divincenzo, will be back.

When it was over, the Crimson Tide had a 45 - 40 victory, their fourth national title since 2009 and the glory of prevailing in one of the best national championship games ever.

Ohio State vs. Oregon in the first national championship game of the playoff era.

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.

They didn't lose until their 11th game, the 1920 high school national championship game, played in Everett, Wash., after a three - day train ride, falling to Everett, 16 - 7.

Duke fans will remember him as the surprise national championship game hero.

Kiffin's never - boring tenure as Alabama offensive coordinator ended just days before the last national championship game after his candid comments about head coach Nick Saban's program in an interview with Sports Illustrated, which allowed him to get a head start making a splash as the new coach of lowly Florida Atlantic, winners of just three games the previous year.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — John Beilein will earn $ 175,000 for the Michigan basketball team's run to the NCAA Tournament national championship game.

The arrival of Trump's motorcade caused a mild stir — with both cheers and boos from inconvenienced fans who had to wait in the rain while he entered with guests — at the college football national championship game in Atlanta.

Beyond that, says Richardson, the goal will be to «try to get to New Orleans» — site of the BCS national championship game.

For the first time the NCAA paid travel expenses for athletes» families to attend the football and basketball national championship games.

Coming up after the NCAA national championship game, we'll start our 2017 - 18 men's basketball player review series, and that will carry us through the month of April pretty well.

In the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabama.

These are all things that happened to Alabama during the national championship game: A player collapsed on the sideline.

They'll play Georgia in the Rose Bowl, with the winner advancing to the national championship game.

The Crimson Tide rallied to shock the Bulldogs in the national championship game.

Fans of Tebow may remember when he wrote «John 3:16» on his face (in his eyeblack) during the national championship game when he played college football at Florida.

CNN: Mormon linebacker helps lead Catholic Notre Dame to national championship game It was a goal - line stand in the fourth quarter that sealed the University of Notre Dame football team's Saturday victory over the University of Southern California — and earned the No. 1 - ranked team a trip to the national championship game.

The Method: The current bowls are maintained with their automatic bids and allocations (sans the BCS national championship game), and after all bowls are played, the top two teams (according to, presumably, the BCS rankings) would play in the title game.

Unless you played in the national championship game, officially, Alabama won it.

Running back Kerryon Johnson: «Who played Georgia in the national championship game?

Underdogs have covered in the past four national championship games.

«If we don't make it to the national championship game,» he says, «then we did something wrong.»

With Duke and North Carolina having played the best basketball of the season, fans yearning for a momentous college game turn their eyes to Chapel Hill and ask, Is this a preview of the March 30 national championship game in San Antonio?

Forgive Holiday, who was born in 1990 and was not even two years old when the Wolverines made itto the national championship game in the Fab Five's debut season.

It was the first home basketball game for the Bulldogs since the football team's loss to Alabama in the national championship game on Monday night.

Using statistical tools, let's measure the watchability of 2014 - 15's 38 bowl games, sans the national championship game.

Bowl odds are out, and Alabama and Oklahoma are the favorites to advance to the national championship game, according to OddsShark.

Thompson, 38, was an obvious choice given his tutelage under two of the college game's legendary figures: his father, John Thompson Jr., who led the Hoyas to three national championship games and one title during the 1980s; and Pete Carril, the longtime Princeton coach for whom the younger Thompson played and coached.

Hell, we already have one called the «national championship game» ready to host a battle for the national championship.

A double - digit seed has never played in the national championship game, let alone won the whole thing.

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.

We see you out there, people not picking Kentucky to win the national championship game.

That's what has happened in preparation for this year's national championship game, as Ohio State will get a big advantage over Oregon this week, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy:

Richt or Shaw neither one have made a national championship game as well.

So Kelly is not that bad, and he did get us to a national championship game (yes we got smashed!).

A coach that wins close to 70 % of his games, brings in consistent top 10 recruiting classes, has only had 1 losing season in his career, wins everywhere he has been, and got to a national championship game is that not a guy we should cut some slack to?

The 15 - point deficit for Notre Dame is the largest comeback ever in a national championship game.

Due in part to the perceived strength of its schedule, Oklahoma got to play USC in the national championship game, while Auburn won the Sugar Bowl and Utah won the Fiesta Bowl.

It got to play LSU in the national championship game.

At the very least, she's a favorite for Fighting Irish fans, some of whom were lined up outside the Main Building on Monday afternoon waiting for the team to return from the national championship game.

Nebraska Spirits are low after the 37 - 14 loss to Miami in the national championship game.

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.