Sentences with phrase «opponents score points»

Not exact matches

Nevada was decent at both big - play prevention (66th in IsoPPP) and keeping opponents out of the end zone (66th in points per scoring opportunity allowed), but that only matters so much when you are an outright sieve (125th in success rate).

Allowing opponents to score a measly 33.3 points per Game.

«the odds of us scoring fewer than 17 points 3 times in a row against the same opponent in the ’16 and ’17 seasons is less than 1/1000.»

But in nine scoring opportunities (i.e. first downs inside the opponent's 40), Stanford scored 10 points in a three - point loss to USC.

Memphis had little issue with stopping opponents during the regular season, leading the league in that regard with an opponent scoring average of 89.3 points per game.

Waters scored 21 points, which matched his second highest total against a SEC opponent this season.

And while they averaged just 3.9 points per scoring opportunity (100th in FBS), adjusting for opponent makes that look better, too.

Gonzaga center Kelly Olynyk scored 26 points in the team's defeat at the hands of Wichita State, but struggled from the field against a more physical opponent.

Ranked 11th in the preseason polls, the Cardinal figured out creative ways to blow scoring chances — they rank 110th in Points Per Scoring Opportunity (first downs inside the opponent's 40)-- and suffered three three - point losses (to USC, Notre Dame, and Utah) as a scoring chances — they rank 110th in Points Per Scoring Opportunity (first downs inside the opponent's 40)-- and suffered three three - point losses (to USC, Notre Dame, and Utah) as a Scoring Opportunity (first downs inside the opponent's 40)-- and suffered three three - point losses (to USC, Notre Dame, and Utah) as a result.

I know Wenger is trying to keep the team focused, but it is very difficult not to be confident against an opponent that has only gained 1 point on the road this season, and have only scored 3 goals in the process.

So, someone who is supposed to support our back four and be the link between them and midfield and, even more importantly, prevent the other team from scoring, is basically giving opponents balls, goals and points.

They were especially dominant in the paint, where they scored 40 points, the most of any Hawkeye opponent this season.

Louisville played arguably its best game of the season on Sunday, shooting 45.8 percent from the field and scoring 66 points on a Northern Iowa team that came into the game allowing opponents an average of just 54.3 ppg, good for fourth - best in the country.

On Monday, I used an estimated version of my S&P + ratings — using points scored and allowed (the only data points available) to compare output to expected output based on opponent strength — to rank which programs were the best in each decade going back to the 1890s.

The Retrievers wound up scoring more total points than any UVA opponent this season.

USC was absurdly good otherwise, scoring 35 or more eight times and holding opponents to 10 or fewer points 10 times.

It took a superhuman effort from Heisman winner Johnny Manziel for an opponent to score more than 28 points against this defense, and in an era of prolific offenses, only two teams scored more than even 17.

Those 76 points they gave up to Boston College are probably more points than Boston College has scored in a decade against all other opponents.

Scoring opportunities (drives with a first down inside the opponent's 40): FSU 8 *, OSU 7 Points per opportunity: OSU 4.4, FSU 3.8

Lacazette came off the bench and scored, putting us right back into the game, and had our opponents not been given that offside goal, we could well have gotten a point if not more from the match - up.

He said his coach told him to stop after the Bojan fight as obviously his opponent is still scoring points with shots landed, hence Cowboy not landing leg kicks like many thought he would.

I tend to define «scoring opportunities» as trips inside the opponent's 40; the teams made nearly the same number of trips, but while UCLA scored six touchdowns and a field goal in eight trips (points per trip: 5.6), the Buffs settled for five field goals and missed two of them (points per trip: 3.3).

In the last four seasons, the Boilermakers scored 44 or more points against an FBS opponent one time.

Russell Westbrook averaged 49.0 points against the Magic in 2016 - 17, the highest scoring average by a player against any opponent in a single season since Karl Malone averaged 50.5 points per game against the Bucks in 1989 - 90 (minimum 2 games played).

It won all of eight of its games, scored more points a game (42.5) than anybody else in the country, and shut out five opponents.

Nova has scored an opponent - adjusted 128 points per 100 possessions, the most in the country.

In 229 minutes together this season, opponents are scoring just over 100 points per 100 possessions against the duo, a nine - point improvement from last season.

Troy was the only team in the country to not allow more than 24 points in a single game this year, led by their No. 1 - ranked red zone defense that only allowed scores on 59 % of opponent opportunities this season.

Harry Kane scoring a hat - trick for Spurs to give them the 3 points and go above their opponents Burnley & Arsenal too.

Their opponent, the New England Patriots, ranked third in scoring (27.6 points / game) while boasting a well - balanced attack that included a top - five passing offense (269.3 yards / game) and a top - ten rushing offense (117.0 yards / game).

Instead of betting on teams who have held their opponent to 100 points or fewer in three straight games, we wanted to know whether it would be profitable to fade (bet against) teams who had scored less than 100 points in three straight games.

The Chargers have limited opponents to 18.4 points per game, sixth best in the league, while the Browns have scored 15.1 points per game, dead last in the league.

With this in mind, we leveraged our Bracket Simulator «s power ratings and probabilities to project Kentucky's most likely championship game opponents and expected points scored in those games.

Jones, nicknamed «The Headhunter» because she prefers to score points from her opponent's head, was also a gold medallist in the -57 kg category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 European Games.

Of course, that's not dismissing attack, at the end of the day the point of football is to score one goal more than your opponent.

Sevilla did their job at Maribor, which means that the Reds are now two points behind the Spaniards in Group E, ahead of tonight's opponents on goals scored.

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This really would be an incredible outcome, as all sixteen of Blackpool's home games up till this point have featured both them and their opponents scoring.

You score points by landing solid punches or kicks to the body or head of your opponent.

Ultimately, the critics might turn out to be right or they might make valid points while trying to score against their opponents but I think it's indisputable that no diplomatic solution of any kind was ever going to command unanimous approval within US political discourse.

They dislike the very idea of a deal, think Iran can be best held in check in other ways (although they rarely fully articulate how because there are no obvious silver bullet in this) or simply need to say that for unrelated reasons like appearing hawkish or scoring points in internal party politics or against domestic opponents.

However, I think it's safe to say that Bruce Blakeman was undoubtedly the most aggressive of the participants, rarely passing up the opportunity to attack his opponents to score some political points.

«What is noteworthy, at this point, is that de Blasio has a substantial lead over a crowded field of potential Democratic opponents, and he has an impressive 57 % re-elect score among Democrats,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

With its tongue in its cheek, it shamelessly politicizes the obvious in attempting to reframe and shift liability in the White Paper to a political opponent to score cheap political and electioneering points.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, commenting on the controversial Moreland Commission on anti corruption, which is now under federal investigation, says his opponent is wrongly trying to score «cheap political points» by pressing the issue.

Loosely (extremely loosely), the media is hugely left - wing (leaving aside the point I agree with that left / right is a highly imprecise and largely meaningful term); and therefore anything the media says about the right - including calling Nazism «right» - is aimed not at some universal truth but at scoring political points against their opponents.

Proponents of the Martin Act have noted the high rate at which financial crimes are prosecuted in New York; opponents have argued that the law has been used by attorneys general to score political points and boost political profiles, and that it's been used improperly due to the broadness of the statute.

The best Scrabble competitors play not only to score points for themselves, but to block off letters that would prove opportune to their opponents.

The aim was to score more points than your opponent by making a deal that meant you ended up with the items of highest value to you.

Windjammers is a fast - paced head - to - head arcade game where two players face off on a court, and throw discs at the opponent's goal zone to score points.