Sentences with phrase «regular season tournaments»

There will be plenty of other schedule moves for different regular season tournaments but the primary prongs of this are:

Not exact matches

With college basketball's regular season schedule finished, men's basketball teams compete against their conference rivals today and through the weekend for their final shot at improving their standing with the NCAA Tournament selection committee.

In the big picture, this tournament is one of NBA's ideas for combating tanking, an issue that will only become more prominent as the league's regular season enters its home stretch.

Both teams were part of a three - way split of the Big Ten regular season championship, and each comes into the matchup with perhaps a shot at a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The Big Ten Tournament Championship is a rematch of each team's final regular season game, which Ohio State won to prevent the Spartans from winning the conference title outright.

With the quarterfinal victory, the Buckeyes move one step closer to the Big Ten Tournament title, and perhaps bragging rights over Michigan State and Michigan, who formed a three - way tie for the regular season title.

Sure, I bumped the Iona Gaels up to the 15 line after they claimed the MAAC Tournament title and the UNCG Spartans secured their permanent place in 2018's bracket by adding the Southern Conference Tournament title to their regular - season crown.

Their game last Saturday was moved to Vanderbilt's 15,399 - seat arena, and though the NAIA doesn't keep regular - season attendance records, the capacity crowd (over 6,000 more fans than the NAIA tournament record) is believed to be the largest ever to see an NAIA game.

It won the Pac - 12 in the regular season and then it won the conference tournament.

Middle Tennessee has won an NCAA tournament game each of the last two seasons and might have had its best overall team this year, winning Conference - USA in the regular season by finishing 24 - 7.

Coaches, players and fans alike will be able to follow all the action over the course of the season through regular association - generated columns, team rankings, tournament announcements and social media posts.

We have elected to reduce the Regular Season by a week and instead do a Double Elimination Tournament for the Playoffs that will give everyone the opportunity to take the field a couple more times and add some drama to the Playoffs — a Win / Win!

EA: Playoffs are a veteran's tournament and nothing will change from our dominance in the regular season.

The league had retained its name, it was still playing its tournament inside Madison Square Garden, and it was having more regular - season success than naysayers had predicted.

If they really want to make the conference tournament better, either restrict it to actually good teams, like top - 4, or just get rid of it altogether, keep the double - round - robin regular season, and give the bid to the regular season winner.

Since then Arizona has had an assistant coach arrested, gone 0 - 3 at the Battle 4 Atlantis, had the eligibility of its star freshman questioned, seen Trier suspended for a positive PED test for a second straight year, dealt with a much - disputed ESPN report that Miller had been involved in a plan to pay Ayton, and then won the Pac - 12 regular season and tournament titles.

We have 5 regular season games and at least 1 Big 12 tournament game.

The South Region featured the tournament's overall No. 1 seed in Virginia, a team that had dominated both the ACC regular season and tournament.

Maybe that higher power served up a deal where he would help the Cavaliers throughout the regular season, but they would have to get it done on their own once they reached the NCAA tournament.

The Ascenders» 26 - 1 regular season led to the school's first - ever appearance at the DICK»S Sporting Goods High School National Tournament in New York back in March.

But by the Saturday tournament finale the conference's alleged chalk, Villanova, was gone; the league's most dominant center, Georgetown's Patrick Ewing, was long gone; and only the underrated overachievers from Boston College, who had tied St. John's and Villanova for the regular - season Big East title, were left to challenge the drums and the war paint and the non-home team.

After an unprecedentedly unpredictable regular season, the prospect of a mid-major (or mid-majors) reaching the NCAA tournament's final weekend is greater than ever.

College basketball's regular season has been all about parity and depth, and it's reflected in the announcement of the final field of 68 in the NCAA Tournament.

Duke went 26 - 7 SU and 20 - 12 ATS during the regular season and enters the tournament on a 7 - 2 SU and ATS run.

It's obvious enough that the top seeds in the NCAA Tournament probably finished up their regular season and conference tournaments on a high note.

After separating from the pack as the best team in college basketball during the regular season, the Cavaliers will now try to do the same in the NCAA tournament.

Colorado was seeded sixth in the Pac - 12 tournament, finishing the regular season 11 - 7 in the conference and 23 - 11 overall.

TDK finished in third place in the regular season, but with new acquisition Alex Ich in the mid lane, it upset second - seeded Ember in the Challenger Playoffs to earn a spot in the Promotion Tournament.

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.

Nebraska made it to the NCAA Tournament as an 11 - seed this year after finishing fourth in the Big Ten regular season...

For Virginia, added frustration came in the form of them being the only ACC team not to make the tournament's second weekend, despite the fact that they finished first in the conference's final regular season standings, a full game ahead of Duke.

That included an undefeated regular season, the North Coast Section team championship and the tournament's medalist, tying for second at the Northern California finals and finishing fifth at the state championships

Although many casual fans wait until tournament time before regularly watching college hoops, the long duration of the regular season plus the copious number of Division 1 programs creates ample opportunities for contrarian sports bettors to extract value.

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.

It isn't often that public and sharper bettors are both on an underdog like this during the regular season, but trendy dogs do seem to pop up more often in the NCAA Tournament.

Because Loyola had won the WCC regular - season championship, the conference selected the Lions to represent it in the NCAA tournament, which begins on March 15.

Perhaps an eight - team (or 16 - team, or 32 - team) tournament will be a better event, but for those who want to preserve the importance of the regular season and not turn college football into the three months of bubble - watching that college basketball has largely become, the built - in mechanism for tournament expansion is disheartening.

The Ramblers ran the Missouri Valley, winning the regular season title by four games and coasting to the conference tournament title.

How many times have golf fans anticipated the match of the century when two heavyweights go toe - to - toe in a major or even a regular - season tournament (see: Tiger Woods - Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods - Rory McIlroy, Rory - Jordan Spieth, etc.)?

Arizona won the Pac - 12 in the regular season and then took home the conference tournament championship.

Murray State: The Racers won the Ohio Valley in the regular season and won the conference tournament, too, defeating Belmont 68 - 51 in the title game.

For the first time in school history, Saint Mary's won both the WCC's regular season and conference tournament.

There's a reason why Michigan tends to fare better in the tournaments than in the regular season, and it's usually their defense.

The Huskers, for their part, were Big Ten regular season champions, and this is their third tournament appearance in the last four years.

Keep in mind that these are for the regular season only, and they do not include the conference tournaments results.

In previous seasons, the Selection Committee attempted to go to great strides to avoid regular season rematches of both the conference and non-conference variety, with a particular emphasis placed on keeping league rivals apart until at least the Elite Eight, though the 2011 Tournament saw a pair of potential Big East Round of 32 matchups, thanks to that conference placing a record 11 teams in the field.

After yet another undefeated regular season, UConn looks the part of the clear tournament champion.

Clemson doesn't enter the tournament with much momentum on the heels of a 3 - 5 SU and 4 - 4 ATS run to end the regular season but is 4 - 1 ATS in its last five games as a favorite.

Chuck Smrt: Vacation of records could impact 108 regular - season Louisville games and 15 NCAA Tournament wins.

First, as the regular season champions, they were upset by Vermont in the finals of the America East Conference Tournament, preventing a trip to the Big Dance.