Sentences with phrase «ranked team in the country»

«I feel honored having the opportunity to play the No. 1 - ranked team in the country, although we're certainly not as healthy as I would like for us to be,» drawled Bryant before the game, communicating as usual in a mumble that sounds as though a coffee can full of rocks is being shaken.

The real action tho was Danville vs. Granite Bay in a clash of # 1 and # 3 ranked teams in the country.

Two nights later in Pittsburgh the Bearcats met Duquesne, the fifth - ranked team in the country and one that has a defense even stingier than Cincinnati's.

On April 7, the Wildcats beat the No. 2 - ranked team in the country, the Landon School of Bethesda, Maryland, from the sport's Mid-Atlantic heartland.

Colorado ended the 2016 season as the 10th ranked team in the country, as well as Pac - 12 runner - ups, but the Buffaloes are expected to regress in 2017.

Rankings Ramifications: Alabama entered the game as the top - ranked team in the country, while Mississippi State was unranked.

True, the Bruins were the second - ranked team in the country, but they had struggled on the road and had started slowly before winning their only home game.

As the 24th - ranked team in the country, Tennessee will make the short trip to Nashville to play a struggling, unranked Vanderbilt.

The Duke Blue Devils are down in the dumps after a second loss on the season that pushed them down all the way to the # 7 - ranked team in the country.

Not exact matches

The team's average attendance in 2000 ranked it in the top 10 % of all 229 minor - league teams in the country.

Ranked as the No. 25 team in the country according to the AP Polls, Michigan returns quite a bit of its team from last year.

Entering the season USC was ranked as the top team in the country and quarterback Matt Barkley was considered a heavy favorite to win the Heisman Trophy.

They were briefly ranked No. 1 in the country back in 2009 with a team led by DeJuan Blair and Sam Young.

With the addition of Andre Drummond (the # 2 ranked freshman in the country according to ESPN), this team was supposed to contend for another national title.

S&P + ranked West Virginia as the best team in the country (Ohio State was No. 4), and as much as it pains me to admit this, the Mountaineers might have been slight favorites.

Now there is a College Football Playoff, which pits the top four teams in the country against each other, instead of BCS rankings.

The Huskies, 3 - and - 0, are currently ranked as the No. 9 team in the country.

West Virginia, 14 - 2 and ranked No. 21 after its 98 - 84 victory over the team with the best field goal percentage defense in the country, got noticed.

Because of Duval's contributions, IMG Academy spent the majority of the 2016 - 17 high school basketball season ranked as one of the top teams in the country.

Michigan had to fend off Oregon, USC and other west coast teams to get Crawford, ranked as the No. 119 player in the country.

Despite their ranking at number five in the country, the Sooners have looked like a team deserving of a playoff spot the past few weeks.

Rutgers ranked an awful 123rd in Special Teams S&P +, thanks to below - average place - kicking (David Bonagura missed two PATs and mad only one of 40 longer field goals) and maybe the worst combined kick and punt teams in the couTeams S&P +, thanks to below - average place - kicking (David Bonagura missed two PATs and mad only one of 40 longer field goals) and maybe the worst combined kick and punt teams in the couteams in the country.

The Gamecocks entered 2011 ranked No. 12 in the Associated Press preseason poll, the first time in nearly a decade the AP had acknowledged South Carolina as one of the country's best 25 teams going into a season.

As a result, we now have one of the most successful competitive teams in California, and our boy's team was recently ranked within the top 10 in the country.

More specifically, I believe that these coaches could be familiar with the top schools in the country, but that the tail end of the top 25 is highly inaccurate and fans tend to overrate these teams when they see any type of ranking next to a school.

Ohio State has one of the better units in the country as often as not, and Houston ranked a decent 29th in Special Teams S&P + last fall.

The Ramblers rank top - 25 in the country in defensive efficiency, hit 40 percent of their threes as a team and have a legit star at point guard in Missouri Valley Player of the Year (and former Iowa State recruit) Clayton Custer.

In the breathless heat of Los Angeles» Coliseum, Oklahoma held on to the ball almost twice as long as USC and soundly thrashed the country's top - ranked team

But by the end of the season, it was Oladipo who led the team to being ranked No. 1 in the country most of the season.

Its poll of the top teams in the country has been operational since 1936, a time period in which 165 different programs have found their way into its rankings.

Of course I'd love to see him come back next year and lead us to an NIT sweet sixteen despite our probable preseason top 20 ranking and a core as talented as almost any team in the country!

The Spartans (+1200) have the sixth best odds of winning the national championship, yet Brennan only ranks them as the 13th best team in the country.

Their job is to rank the 25 best, or most accomplished, teams in the country.

Their only losses were to Windward - Los Angeles, the No. 1 girls team in the country according to MaxPreps.com, and O'Dowd, which was also nationally - ranked and has spend all season atop the SportStars NorCal Top 20.

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.

While these teams measure up pretty similarly when it comes to a number of advanced metrics, FIU does have a significant advantage in the red zone, where they rank second in the country in scoring percentage, while Temple ranks 96th.

She was also highly ranked in doubles, teaming with Carol Herrick, a fellow tennis obsessive who also played with Raymonde at the Army - Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va..

That's why Maryland, currently the fourth - ranked college basketball team in the country, offered him a scholarship midway through his junior year in high school.

«For me it represents connecting all the generations of players and the culture that's been developed over the years,» said Hartwell Sr., a reserve on Kitani's first great team in 1986 - 87 that produced two NBA players (Sean Higgins and Chris Mills) and finished ranked No. 8 in the country by USA Today.

Just ask Bob Johnson, coach extraordinaire of the top - ranked college hockey team in the country

It's also surprising to see that Pomeroy ranks North Carolina at just the 20th best team in the country despite having the 5th best title odds and the # 4 ranking in the initial USA Today Coaches Poll.

Despite these long odds, the Cowboys are ranked by KenPom as the 21st best team in the country.

On the Girls side of things, Rugby NorCal had three teams who also ended up being ranked in the top 10 in the Country, including the Sacramento Amazons U19 program.

Loyola enters this matchup as one of the best three - point shooting teams in the country, hitting 40 percent of their shots from three - point range — which ranks 15th nationally.

The Knights are one of two undefeated teams in the country, but they were ranked behind six two - loss teams and one three - loss team — No. 12 Stanford (9 - 3).

That's a Georgetown team ranking in the top 15 in the country in both offensive and defensive efficiency according to Lacrosse Reference, and Marquette ground them to dust with a sub-50 ranked offense (and there's only 71 Division 1 teams) and a # 36 defense according to LR again.

With the school year officially underway and men's golf teams across the country getting a tournament or two under their belts, the Bushnell / Golfweek D - I Coaches Poll issued their first in - season poll of the year and HOLY CRAP MARQUETTE IS RANKED # 22 IN THE Ccountry getting a tournament or two under their belts, the Bushnell / Golfweek D - I Coaches Poll issued their first in - season poll of the year and HOLY CRAP MARQUETTE IS RANKED # 22 IN THE COUNTRin - season poll of the year and HOLY CRAP MARQUETTE IS RANKED # 22 IN THE COUNTRIN THE COUNTRYCOUNTRY.

However, the countries two top ranked teams, Juventus and Chelsea are locked head to head in a battle for the Top 5 in the club rankings.

The Golden Eagles are coming off Big East regular season and tournament titles in 2013 and return a deep corps of hitters from a team that finished last season ranked # 23 in the country.

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