Sentences with phrase «season points championship»
Truex, who drives a Toyota, won four races and the regular - season points championship.
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Averaged 18.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in11 seasons in Chicago, helping Michael Jordan to six championships.
From that came the implementation of a three - stage format that incentivizes drivers with bonus points that apply toward the championship so that they push hard from green flag to checkered flag in every regular season race.
Apparently, Honda wants him to finish off his season in Super Formula as he's only half a point behind the current championship leader, the Toyota - backed Hiroaki Ishiura.
The championship leader at the end of the normal 26 - race section will be awarded «regular season champion» and get 15 additional playoff points, with the rest of the top 10 also getting them on a 10 (for second) to one (for 10th) playoff point basis.
It starts with an elite veteran point guard in Jalen Brunson, a player who already has a national championship to his name and might be college basketball's player of the year this season.
Heading into the final race of 2012 Alonso was challenging Sebastian Vettel for the championship whilst Massa had scored just one podium all season and was way down in seventh in the points standings.
This season, they finished third in the extremely competitive West Catholic Athletic League, then came up a two - point conversion short in a 31 - 30 loss in the Central Coast Section Open Division II championship game to Serra - San Mateo, which also won a state bowl title in Sacramento.
It doesn't matter what sport you follow, if you look back at any team that's every won a championship, there's always one game during the season that players and fans can point to as the turning point that made a season something special.
Kansas hasn't received much respect this season as a legitimate contender, finding itself as a 1.5 - point underdog in the Big 12 tournament championship game against West Virginia and a 3 - point underdog in the Elite Eight against No. 2 Duke.
Truex can clinch the regular season championship by leaving Bristol with a lead greater than 121 points.
Kimi Raikkonen won the first race — the first time Lotus had done so since 2006 and 1978 and at this point in the season the entire field were separated by just 25 points in the championship — the closest title battle since Australia 2012.
Since the 1976 - 1977 season — which ended with the Portland Trail Blazers» most recent championship — no NBA player has scored more points in their first three starts than Jeremy Lin a.k.a Linsanity a.k.a The Harvard Hurricane a.k.a. Super Lintendo.
With Jameer Nelson hurt, Turkoglu served as the point forward, leading the Magic in assists as they made a surprise trip to the Finals and ended one of the few seasons in Boston's Big Three championship window.
The University of Oregon Ducks» Autzen Stadium, where the championship game was scheduled, was turf; they weren't hitting at this point in the season; practicing in the controlled atmosphere of the armory seemed a good decision.
SI looked at every season in the big four sports since 1966 — the Super Bowl era — giving cities points for winning (five for a championship, three for a conference title, one for a division title) while deducting one for a last - place finish, two for being worst in the conference and three for having the worst record in the league.
It used 10 - year averages and didn't give bonus points for championships, which meant that Penn State fans were frustrated by a low 1980s ranking (yes, the Nittany Lions won two national titles; they also won eight or fewer games five times) and Nebraska fans were angry that their Huskers were overtaken by FSU in the 1990s (yes, the Huskers won 2.5 national titles; FSU won two and was generally better in the non-title seasons).
But, most importantly, it gives Hamilton a three - point lead in the drivers» standings — the first time he has led the championship this season!
The Brazilian made his debut with Sauber back in 2002 and had a long spell with Ferrari where he achieved 11 race victories, also coming desperately close to the world championship in the dramatic 2008 season finale, where Massa missed out on the title by a single point.
In the five years since scoring 54 points in The Garden, Stephen Curry has won two championships, two MVPs, shattered three - point records, led the Warriors to the greatest regular season of all time, and has generally asserted himself as the most genre - defining, game - shifting player that we've seen in, well, decades.
«I was newly sober when I arrived and this was, well, Ireland, but I always liked a challenge,» says Fleury, who won the EIHL scoring championship in his only season, recording 22 goals, 74 points and an astounding 270 penalty minutes in 34 games.
But a final decision will have to be made after the current season as Busch is still a contender, currently 47 points (less than a full race) behind championship leader Matt Kenseth with six races remaining.
The Belmont Bruins used a one - point loss to Duke in the season's first game to propel them to an Atlantic Sun championship and a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
The victory put Al Sr. ahead of his son 139 to 136 in championship points going into the final race of the CART season, which will take place in Miami on Nov. 9.
If Villanova wins a second national championship in Brunson's three seasons there, the junior point guard will have been the catalyst that made the latest title happen.
And while one championship in five seasons isn't exactly domination, Beckham can now point to 2011 with pride.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Takal Molson scored 24 points, Isaiah Reese had 17 points and seven assists and Canisius clinched a share of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular - season championship with a 98 - 74 victory over Marist on Sunday.
In the next 10 League games, I want Arsenal to target and collect not less than 28 points out of the maximum collectible 30 points to be in control of the championship halfway into the season.
When the Force Indias are within a second of each other on track in the points next season, we will see whether both talents have indeed matured into wiser heads who put the security of the team in the constructors» championship ahead of personal heroics.
Byron Scott, at the start of his season coaching Ellington in L.A., claimed that three - point shooting didn't win championships.
With two races to go in the 1987 season, Nelson Piquet had a handy 12 - point lead in the championship over teammate Nigel Mansell.
«Being literally in the middle of the worst wildfire of California history, literally in the middle of your season, and to come mere points away from winning a section championship is really unfathomable,» MaxPreps.com senior writer Mitch Stephens said.
The Cavaliers absorbed a 30 - point, 14 - rebound double - double from Duke freshman center Marvin Bagley III, held one of the nation's top offenses below a point per possession and outlasted the Blue Devils for a 65 — 63 win that pushed Virginia to 20 — 1 and effectively sealed its third league regular - season championship in five years.
Given that I eventually won the championship by less than 25 points, this risky strategy early in the season had to work and it did.»
Shortly after the confrontation, Greg Lee, the point guard who had passed to Walton for 14 assists in Walton's magnificent 21 - for - 22 NCAA championship game the previous spring, was benched for most of the 1973 - 74 season.
Moore's season - high 38 points to go with 10 rebounds helped propel the Pride to a 76 - 57 win over rival St. Mary's - Berkeley in the championship of the Tri-County Athletic League - Rock playoffs on Feb. 22.
Salesian has played for the state championship the last two seasons, and lost both times — last year, by just one point.
Roma led the pack from start to finish and ended the season with 75 points, the most registered during an 18 - team championship.
British Cycling technical director Shane Sutton said: «This European championships marks the first opportunity for us to score Olympic qualification points for Rio and as such the squad as a whole is prepared and looking forward to this season's racing.
Last season Norwich only took a point from their two games against the Owls and they have won just one of their previous twelve championship matches against Sheffield Wednesday (D2 L9).
Kimi Raikkonen ended the season 112 points behind Sebastian Vettel, which was a pretty fair reflection of how far off the pace of his world championship contending team mate he was.
Fleetwood Town's 25 - year - old striker Jamie Vardy rose to prominence last season by scoring 27 goals for FC Halifax Town as they won the Northern Premier Division championship, finishing 19 points clear of second place.
If Marquette pulls off the W against the Blue Demons, then the two squads both finish with 21 points and share the regular season championship.
He is talking about accumulating points through the season and at the end of it at Abu Dhabi, where and if you still score can make a difference in where you stand on the championship tables (Renault is a good example from last year).
Gavin and Beretta lost the war for the GT1 drivers championship to their Corvette Racing teammates Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen by 23 points, but they scored a victory in the final battle of the season Gavin and Beretta completed 139 laps in the winning No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R, finishing 12 seconds ahead of the runner - up No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R of O'Connell and Magnussen.
O'Connell and his teammate Ron Fellows will begin the final race of the season 15 points behind their Corvette Racing stablemates Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta in the championship standings.
The penultimate race of the season pays bonus points that could determine the driver, team and manufacturers championships.
It was the ninth win this season for Roberts, who came into today's race needing just a few points to clinch the championship despite two events remaining.
With four GTLM victories this season, Antonio Garcia stands second in the class» Driver championship heading to Road Atlanta and is seven points out of the lead.
«It was gut - wrenching from a championship point of view because it's getting down to the business end of the season and you need to make every race count.