Sentences with phrase «national championships after»

Wisconsin beat Kentucky in the Final Four on Saturday night, ending the Wildcats» pursuit of a perfect season and catapulting the Badgers to the national championship after avenging last year's Final Four loss.

Last year: 6 Record: 49 - 27 (20 - 6) Lowdown: Harbaugh is the highest - ranked coach without a national championship after back - to - back 10 - win seasons with the Wolverines.

Paris Saint - Germain's U17 team will face their Monaco counterparts in their age category national championship after beating Sochaux 5 - 1 in their semi-final tie in Brittany.

Not exact matches

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

But she does not discourage a comparison of her plight to that of Nancy Kerrigan, the figure skater who had to withdraw from a national championship in 1994 after being clubbed in the knee with a tire iron.

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.

The Cubs lost to the Washington Nationals, 8 - 4, on Wednesday and fell to 39 - 39 on the season, after winning 200 games over the last two seasons, including the club's first World Series championship in 108 years last fall.

Later, after the national championship and grown men from the Bayou running naked down Bourbon Street, the Tigers would put the phrase on the back of their equipment truck, so the whole world could kiss their gear's ass as it rolled down the highway.

In 1991, at the climax of Washington's undefeated national championship season, a Seattle TV station aired a report on the poor graduation rate of the players under coach Don James, who quit on Sunday after Washington was placed on probation (page 11).

«We've come a long way,» he said, «but it's still too soon to...» Someone once asked Bryant what was left after winning three national championships.

Though Detroit just won the National League championship after a bruising 70 - game season, the top four (of six) eastern professional teams have been whacking away at each other all over again to decide who wins the real championship.

He leaves Florida State after eight years at the helm and national championship in the trophy case.

After the SEC championships in 2001 and 2003 and the National Championship in 2003, there was a sense of continuity that despite the new coach and the rebuilding year of 2004, we were still elite.

And last year, not only was Jackie Robinson West stripped of its national title, but the Georgia state championship team from Peachtree was ruled ineligible to compete in the Southeast regional after Little League officials discovered some teams in the league included too many 12 - year - olds.

Philly got its second celebration in three months after Villanova won the national championship Monday night.

After hitting not one, but TWO buzzer - beating, game - winning shots during the Final Four, INCLUDING one to win the national championship, Notre Dame star Arike Ogunbowale is probably a household name by now.

After Penn State won its first national championship, in 1982, the Nittany Lions stumbled out of the blocks the next season by losing their first three games en route to a 7 -4-1 record.

After short - handed but resilient Notre Dame made a run to the Final Four, it was Arike Ogunbowale who was the hero not once, but twice to deliver the Irish their first national championship since 2001.

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

At Arkansas, under head coach Nolan Richardson and then assistant Mike Anderson, Day led the program to a Final Four return and laid the foundation for a national championship two years after he entered the 1992 NBA Draft.

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.

Pitino told his U of L team after a five overtime loss to Notre Dame on Feb. 9 that he wanted them to win the last seven games of the regular season, then the Big East Tournament title and then the national championship.

They had won 36 of 48 games from that day in August until the last one in September, and after sweeping the Phils in a bizarre doubleheader the night before for their 23rd and 24th straight wins at home, the championship of the National League East seemed within the Pirates» reach.

College teams won seven conference titles and one national championship in 10 years; named Rice basketball coach to succeed Don Suman, who resigned under fire after Owls skidded into SWC second division.

They rank sixth in the BCS standings and, after hosting Mississippi State this Saturday, they will have a chance to enter the national championship equation when they travel to Baton Rouge to take on No. 1 LSU.

QBs from Hawaii staked 2 national title claims in 2017, 3 years after Marcus Mariota took Oregon to the championship game

In the semifinal, Jesuit trailed at halftime before scoring 29 consecutive points after the intermission on their way to a convincing 39 - 20 victory to earn a shot at the national championship.

After Florida won the 1996 national championship, two junior receivers, Reidel Anthony and Ike Hilliard, bypassed their senior years for the NFL.

After Alabama's thrilling 45 — 40 victory in last season's national championship, Clemson will finally have a shot at redemption on Monday night in Tampa Bay.

Right after a single - arm weight - lifting championship and just before a meeting of the Midwest taekwondo club, the Granby Halls Leisure Centre in Leicester, England, has pried open a November date for the most meaningful game in the history of England's national basketball team.

We enjoyed having a nationally recognized opponent coming to our stadium, and only the second national championship - winning program, after Georgia Tech visited,» Massaro said.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

Ted Moehlmann from St. Louis won three titles in the senior division (over 40) of the national badminton tournament 23 years after winning three titles in the first national junior championship ever held.

Thus did Oscar Robertson, after 11 frustrating seasons in the National Basketball Association, celebrate the world championship won by the Milwaukee Bucks last week.

«I think,» he said after winning the national championship in the shot, «if I improve normally, I can do 70 feet in the shot before I quit.»

On a bonus national championship preview episode, Dan is joined by Chris B. Brown of SmartFootball.com to talk about the defensive philosophies and overlapping principles of Saban and Smart's defense, young QB preparation, the universal potential of Saban's defense, and how much or little can be prepared for a week after very different opponents in the College Football Playoff semifinal.

An offensive tweet from Villanova's Donte DiVincenzo surfaced after Monday night's national championship game.

Nick Saban is looking like a genius after benching Jalen Hurts in favor of Tua Tagovailoa, a move that would ultimately win him his sixth national championship.

Villanova's star sixth man Donte DiVincenzo's Twitter account was deleted after Monday night's national championship win.

We asked Carlson if she had ever heard from President Lahey personally, either after a regular season game or the national championship ones.

After the Herd won its first national championship in 1992, beating Youngstown State 31 - 28 in the title game, Morehouse walked into his house, and he and his wife hugged tightly.

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.

The day after the Sugar Bowl, when Stallings was asked why he didn't seem more overjoyed at having won the national championship, he explained that for him the joys of coaching do not lie primarily in victories.

And, after the section championship concluded, the potential matchup of MaxPreps» national No. 1 Archbishop Mitty - San Jose and No. 5 St. Mary's - Stockton still looms large and is whetting the appetites of basketball junkies in NorCal.

After importing the predictions from Joe Lunardi's latest Bracketology, we ran one million simulations to determine the probability for each team to win the national championship (along with their odds of reaching the Sweet 16, Elite Eight and Final Four).

After 834 regular season games, 40 bowl games, 4,376 Nick Saban scowls and one hell of a national championship game, the college football season is over.

Since then, the Mustangs went 23 -0-2 a season ago and finished the year atop StudentSports.com's Fab 50 national rankings after avenging that championship loss to San Ramon Valley with a 2 - 1 victory.

Oh, and this was 11 years after these teams met in their epic Rose Bowl national championship, giving it a game - of - the - week atmosphere the whole time.

After their wins last night in the Final Four, Kentucky (29 - 10 SU, 21 -14-2 ATS) will face Connecticut (31 - 8 SU, 21 -14-2 ATS) for the national championship.

A week after dropping out of the national title race, Georgia's SEC championship hopes were essentially vanquished.