Sentences with phrase «out of conference games»

Add more conference games and you get fewer out of conference games.

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Upstairs, a conference room that looks like something straight out of the board game «Clue» — with dark wood walls, marble floors and candelabras — can quickly transform into a swanky restaurant with dishes culled from a nearby cupboard and a removable fireplace.

Smith hired a PR agency to get the word out on the game, and it paid off with a slew of media coverage after the annual PAX conference last year.

We follow online marketing best practices, and always have a game plan to ensure we can get the most out of the time spent at conferences.

And depending on what happens in other conference title games, whichever version of the Tigers comes out won't just yet be ruled out of the BCS Championship Game.

Of course, no undefeated team from a power conference has ever been shut out of the BCS Championship Game for a team with a losOf course, no undefeated team from a power conference has ever been shut out of the BCS Championship Game for a team with a losof the BCS Championship Game for a team with a loss.

It would be on brand for WVU to go 11 - 1 and get shut out of the Playoff because a.) the Big 12's strength of schedule fell apart, b.) they won't play a conference title game, and c.) some random terrible thing happens to them along the way.

Pro: This allows for the further maintenance of conference - affiliated bowl games (which assures buy - in from big bowls like the Rose) and technically allows for more than four teams to have a shot at the title if things play out just right.

While the # 1 Seed is likely out of reach they now have a 1 - Game Lead in the Conference and hold the # 2 Seed in their own control if they can win out over the final 3 weeks.

While the Wings are scorching - hot at home, the Ducks are on a surge of their own, earning 24 points over the last 16 games in trying to get out of the Western Conference gutter.

Two - loss 2016 Penn State and 2015 Stanford also had three wins against top - 25 teams and conference titles, and each lost one of its games by a single score, rather than getting blown out twice.

Still, with only eight «contenders» elsewhere, who have four losses to share among themselves via games yet to be played, no P5 conference is really out of it yet.

Prior to that, New York had lost four games in a row, causing the team to fall out of second place in the Eastern Conference thanks to Indiana's recent hot streak.

I had more fun watching this team than I might've had if they coasted through conference play and made an uninspired performance in the Big Dance a la UVA, in no small part because of their lack of «ELITE» status and willingness to make the gritty plays game in and game out.

At 36 - 14 coming out of the All - Star break, they are entrenched as the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference, a full four games ahead of the nearest competitor, the New York Knicks.

LeBron James, John Wall, most of the Hawks starting lineup and others fill out an impressive Eastern Conference squad for Sunday's All - Star Game.

At 15 - 21 through week's end, the Kings were only four games out of a Western Conference playoff spot and showing newfound resilience under coach Eddie Jordan.

Point guard George Hill was ruled out of Game 5 of the the Indiana Pacers - New York Knicks Eastern Conference semifinal series on Thursday due to a concussion, according to the team.

Michigan made it through the non-conference schedule relatively unscathed, with a seven - point loss to Duke, and somewhat surprising losses to Virginia and Arkansas, the latter of which occurred during an out - of - conference game in the middle of the conference slate.

Within a couple of months of Texas A&M and Missouri coming aboard, the SEC figured out how to squeeze two awkward, seven - team divisions with all sorts of permanent rivalry games into an eight - game conference structure.

An astounding 15 players were battling injuries while taking the reigning champions to seven games before getting knocked out of contention in the Eastern Conference Final.

Hubbard recently sent out 40 letters to lesser members of major conferences suggesting games with A&M.

Out of the blue, he gives this animated press conference and subsequently the team goes on a roll, wins the division, makes the playoffs and wins a playoff game at home.

Key Game Traveling cross-country in the middle of a brutal conference schedule to face ateam that has been to three straight Final Fours is asking for trouble, but theIrish — who ranked 12th out of 16 in scoring defense in the Big East lastseason — need all the toughening they can get before the Big Dance.

Arsene Wenger will definitely not be using the England forward Danny Welbeck against Burnley as he spoke on a press conference you can see in full on the Arsenal website about the striker's length of time out of the game and how it would be a gradual process back into the first team for Welbeck, including a least one game for the Arsenal under 21 side.

«I knew the first half could be difficult for us because we come out of Sunday's game with a low confidence level, they come back with a very positive mind,» Wenger told a news conference.

LeBron James had a ridiculously impressive Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals vs. the Nets on Monday night, scoring 49 points, grabbing 6 boards, and dishing out 6 dimes.

Four out of their last six games are against teams with winning records, including two against the Eastern Conference leading Cleveland Cavaliers and one against the Toronto Raptors.

The Pelicans, who are 1.5 - games out of the 8th seed in the Western Conference, are currently +20,000 to win the championship and +7,500 to win the West.

North Carolina's starting forward and ACC Defensive Player of the Year John Henson has been ruled out for this afternoon's game against Vermont due to a wrist injury sustained in the conference tournament.

Depending on how the conferences are scheduling in their individual leagues, playing those big out - of - conference games early is probably going to become part of what teams need to do,» Osborne said.

Dwight Howard, who's averaging 18.3 PPG and 12.6 RPG, was not voted a starter while Kobe Bryant, who's played in all of six games this year, received the third-most votes out of any player in the Western Conference.

The Indianapolis Colts» 28 - 16 victory over the Houston Texans on Sunday had altered the AFC playoff race, as the Texans fell out of the conference's top two seeds and into a first - round playoff game that they seemed sure to avoid.

David McFarland added 15 points and six boards and Christian Ellis scored 11 for SIU - Edwardsville, which sits a game out of the eighth and final seed for the conference tourney with one game left.

A major conference rivalry like Texas / Oklahoma will receive far more bets than a random game involving two mid-majors, and that split means that bettors can't simply seek out the most lopsided betting percentages — they need to consider the number of bets placed.

The Wolverines still probably qualify as the league's hottest team, having won six of seven games to sneak out an unlikely split of the conference title with Ohio State and Michigan State.

And I know that we Arsenal fans were fuming from the performance in Dortmund, but from what the likes of Souness, Redknapp and Scholes came out with afterwards, you would think that we had just been relegated into the conference rather than lost ONE game against a fantastic Dortmund side, in a ground where no English team but Arsenal has ever won.

What started out as a war of words evolved Wednesday night into a petty timeout, one head coach being held back from going after the other, that head coach refusing to shake hands after the game, a minor on - court fracas, and then one of the most savage postgame press conferences you're ever going to see.

Despite being wallflowers during the summer free agency period, the Nashville Predators are going to look significantly different than the team that was blown out in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Sharks.

Southern Miss and the UAB zombie program each went 6 - 2 in conference play, and Seth Littrell's North Texas won a series of tight games — 46 - 43 over UAB, 29 - 26 over UTSA, 24 - 23 over Louisiana Tech — to eke out a conference title game bid.

Jacob Josefson has been out of the New Jersey Devils lineup since April 3 with a wrist injury, but he'll return on Monday night as the team faces the New York Rangers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final.

The Sooners» decision to schedule tough out - of - conference games at Houston and at home against Ohio State ultimately cost Oklahoma a spot in the College Football Playoff.

The B1G's nine - game schedule (as in, one more conference game than the SEC) means even non-rivals would play three out of every five years, in our system.

Thomas» hip injury is what's causing the trouble, and that's what kept him out of the last two - and - a-half Eastern Conference Finals games against the Cavs in May.

In our latest update, we pointed out how underdogs of at least seven points were particularly profitable in conference games.

Even if you discount Radford they beat two other reasonably legitimate tourney teams and lost a close game to TCU - St. Mary's did practically nothing out of conference

The B1G's new nine - game schedule (as in, one more conference game than the SEC) means even non-rivals would play three out of every five years, in our system.

It's difficult to measure non-conference strength of schedule with precision, but one method is to look at the percentage of out - of - conference games each major conference plays against other major conferences (plus Notre Dame).

We've never seen two teams from the same conference in the College Football Playoff, but if both Georgia and Alabama are undefeated heading into an SEC title game, it'll be hard for the committee to leave one of them out, regardless of the winner.

When out - of - conference games became neutral - site affairs played in NFL stadiums, people followed.