Sentences with phrase «team in the second round»

Wichita State got a totally unfair shake in 2014 when its reward for entering the tournament with an undefeated record was having to face an underseeded, oversized, and extremely talented Kentucky team in the second round.

The Brooklyn Nets could point to several missed opportunities throughout their series with the Chicago Bulls that, had they broke just a bit differently, would have the team in the second round right now.

Playing a depleted LeBron - lead team in the second round was the best - case scenario for the Bulls, and a piss - poor defensive game plan from a coach known for his defensive «genius» cost them.

They might well be capable of beating one of the Group C teams in the second round — Cote d'Ivoire, Colombia, Greece or Japan — but with either Brazil or the Netherlands likely waiting in the quarter finals, England will stumble.

Not exact matches

The Browns have a treasure trove of draft picks in the 2018 draft, including two in the first round and three in the second round that could help turn the team around.

The first deal came when Cleveland was able to trade away Dion Waiters, a player who just wasn't fitting in with the Cavs, along with a second - round pick in a three - team deal for Iman Shumpert, J.R. Smith, and a first - round draft pick.

In addition to moving to a bigger office and boosting marketing of existing products, the team will spend some of the second - round cash to roll out several new products that will be their first step toward the company's future.

The SIT has previously asked the ED, NCB and the Income Tax Department «to take adequate measures to prevent the use of cryptocurrencies,» the publication noted, adding that the Team «has called for a second round of meetings to be held in Delhi next month, where the officials from all the aforementioned agencies will review the use of cryptocurrencies.»

Giannini, who joined the team in January, has stints on his resume at Nestle Beverage and Monterey Pasta Co, and has helped build companies like Sweet Earth Natural Foods, Double Rainbow Ice Cream and HempAde Beverage, added Hughes, who closed a second round of financing in February, adding three new investors.

«Myself and the Greenhouse Craft Food team are excited to open our second location in partnership with the Round Rock Express and Dell Diamond,» comments Snow.

Then in the second round of teams that I would like to face in order of would like the most to least goes; Jazz, Pelicans, Thunder, Portland.

Team USA and Puerto Rico are both 1 - 0 in the second round of World Baseball Classic play, thanks to wins against Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, respectively.

I don't have a quarterback going in the first round, but you can guarantee that a team at the top of the second round will trade up to get one, or a team will trade down to acquire one.

All three of your second round log jam RBs would be valuable to the team, providing they get what you see in their highlights.....

Outside of Hicks, the Eagles haven't gotten a ton of productivity on Day 2: WRs Jordan Matthews and Josh Huff (2014 second - and third - rounders, respectively) are no longer with the team, though Matthews was pretty decent for stretches in Philadelphia before being traded for CB Ronald Darby (Super Bowl starter for Philly), CB Eric Rowe was traded before the 2016 season after likely not making into the defense's two deep, OG Isaac Seumalo (2016 third round) disappointed in a starting role, and 2017 second - round CB Sidney Jones has only recently been activated after sitting out most of the year recovering from injury.

Another historical note — Team Rijos as one of the last Teams in upset Team Maione last Summer in the Opening Round of Hoops on a last - second shot.

That's the reality under the divisional playoff format that could pit the top two teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences against each other in the second round.

But we'll see what happens this year with a couple more really good teams being beat out in the second round.»

These two teams got to the second round in different ways.

We field like a team that already has 5 goals to nil and going for a second game in the robin round format and we just want to sneak in one more goal to get it over the line.

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At best we get a title and CL football and even if we did we would be out of that competition by the first or second round, we will still have a mgr without a clue, no quality in the team and more likely will be playing for top 10 spot in EPL

We have had 2 second rounders in recent memory who are not on the team anymore because of their stupidity, and we're talking about a 5th rounder.

He not only snubbed Denver, the franchise that plucked him from Miami in the second round of the 2011 draft, but he also brushed off a handful of other teams that were prepared to make the 27 - year - old an even richer man.

You can get two high seeds playing each other in the first round or the second round and perhaps that's not fair but I think ultimately it's good for the game to have heated playoff series against teams that don't like each other and see each other a lot.»

Cheeks took over a disgruntled team with an $ 84 million payroll (second only to the Knicks) that had been swept in the first round by the Lakers last season.

Thomas was the nucleus of a team that had the best record in New Mexico history (28 - 5) and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament for the first time in 22 years.

The second round level of the tender is an interesting one because that's low enough that another team very well could come in and give up a second round pick for Hoyer.

Wideouts Corey Bradford (Packers), Jabar Gaffney (a second - round draft pick from Florida) and Jermaine Lewis (Ravens) give Houston a better set of receivers than any of the last three expansion teams — Carolina and Jacksonville in 1995, Cleveland in 1999 — fielded in year one.

In fact, this is the second time that this has happened — it just so happened that the last time, his team got lucky and ended up with a favorable second - round matchup.

The other 32 teams hoping for a spot in the second round will be in action all day long, starting with Ohio State and Florida at 12:15 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

The spot carries direct entry into group play into next season's Europa League should Wenger's team falter in the second - tier tournament this term, while seventh sends a side into the second qualifying round.

All eyes will be on Notre Dame quarterback DeShone Kizer, and whether or not a team will try and trade into the No. 33 pick — the first pick in the second round — to make sure they get him.

Second - seeded IMG Academy was upset by seventh - seeded Greensboro Day in its first - round game, but Duval still managed to lead the team with 14 points despite playing in the McDonald's All - American Game the night prior.

The Ramblers looked like one of the mid-major ranks» best teams on Selection Sunday, and the Missouri Valley Conference champs confirmed that by beating Miami in the first round on Thursday and Tennessee in the second round on Saturday.

It is very trendy to pick against Villanova in this bracket, especially after last year's Wildcats succumbed to a UConn team not entirely unlike N.C. State in the second round, but this is a better «Nova, and I think this team goes deep.

Ever since I saw their performance against Porto in the second round, it's hard to see a weakness in their team.

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I can't see a team with a need for an edge rusher taking a risk that they could pick up a guy of Ray's caliber in the second round and passing on him, especially if there's a run on pass rushers at the top of the first round.

With all those league winners out of the rankings, the second pot, which we'll be in, should contain all the other good teams from Europe, so teams from pots 3 & 4 probably won't trouble us in getting through to the knockout rounds.

I actually don't really hate them, but I do feel like I need to acknowledge the fact that I have a team (Iona) which isn't even favored to make it through Tuesday night's «First Four» action knocking the Golden Eagles out in the second round.

In the other opening - round game, the Panthers and the Runnin» Bulldogs played a back - and - forth first half before the Panthers, the home team and eighth seed, pulled away in the second half, ultimately winning, 70 - 5In the other opening - round game, the Panthers and the Runnin» Bulldogs played a back - and - forth first half before the Panthers, the home team and eighth seed, pulled away in the second half, ultimately winning, 70 - 5in the second half, ultimately winning, 70 - 58.

The Virginia Military Keydets took on their in - state rival Radford Highlanders and the High Point Panthers faced Gardner - Webb Bulldogs for spots in the second round against the upper - echelon teams in the conference.

This is Mark Few's best team yet — better than those Adam Morrison - led squads that lost in second rounds and Sweet Sixteens from 2004 to 2006, and better than any of the last few years.

Now the team parted ways with one of its best defensive players, jettisoning Sheldon Richardson to Seattle in exchange for Jermaine Kearse and a second - round pick.

Stephenson, who leads the league with three triple doubles this season and is arguably the second best player on the best team in the conference, is a much more well - rounded guard (averaging 5.3 APG & 7.1 RPG).

Colombia and Australia, two of the other three teams who had to win entry via a qualifying tournament, also managed this feat, but did so with 1 - 2 records in round one whereas Israel managed to advance and win a second - round game before their exit.

The current system called for teams to forfeit a first - round draft pick when signing a free agent that declined a qualifying offer — a one - year tender at the average of the top 125 salaries in baseball — with the old team receiving a sandwich pick in between the first and second rounds.

I'd love to face the LeBrons in the 2nd round and knock them out, and be the team to run LBJ out of Ohio for the second time.

As part of the deal, the two teams will swap their second - round picks in 2022.