Sentences with phrase «with game tournaments»

Not exact matches

The NCAA Tournament concludes with the championship game on Monday, April 3 at 9 p.m.

For example, in preparing for a recent big tournament game, Coach K sent a Bitmoji replicating a famous wartime poster, with the coach flexing his arm and declaring confidently: «You Can Do It!»

I'm very conscious of making time for my kids, whether that means working with them (my oldest is interning in the office this summer) or carving time out to go to tournaments and games.

«I've got a lot of confidence in my game right now, especially with the way I've been playing the last few tournaments,» he said Tuesday.

To test what would happen, Robert Axelrod set up a tournament and invited fourteen game theorists to submit computer programs with the algorithm of their choice; Axelrod described the winner in The Evolution of Cooperation:

Given that we are writing this during college basketball's championship tournament, a good example is a team that starts a game with an extremely high three - point field goal shooting percentage.

With sports games, you can take control of your favorite team and lead them to the tournament victory they deserve.

Your book arrived on Saturday and I brought it with me to my son's basketball tournament knowing I would have three hours between games to read it.

Loyola locked in the auto - bid with a 65 - 49 win over Illinois State in the conference tournament title game, setting the stage for one of the great Cinderella runs in March Madness history.

Arsenal are already almost out of the tournament with both feet and yet you can't seem to brush of the positivity that is coming for tonight's game.

Sergio Garcia, the kid golfer we like to think of as an irrepressible naif, had that conflicted expression he gets now after a good tournament round — the smile that says, «My game is back,» coupled with the darting eyes that ask where the next ambush is coming from.

In the course of a bridge career that spans half a century, beginning with auction tournaments in 1923, he has played and won with more different systems and more varied partners than anyone else in the game.

Hummels obviously has more experience and at a higher level having played almost 50 European club games and with about the same number of full international caps and two major tournaments to his name with Germany.

And his tournament took a worse turn today as he was left out of the starting line up for the knockout game against Slovakia, only to see Germany put on their best attacking display so far, with the former Arsenal transfer target Julian Draxler taking most of the plaudits thanks to an assists, a goal and his all round game.

However, they were sent crashing back to earth with a humbling defeat in their second group game of the 1950 tournament.

We saw during the Euro 2016 tournament this summer that our new signing had a good football brain and the ability to control a game and set the tempo with his passing from the middle of the pitch.

They opened the season with a 68 - 67 overtime loss to Windward - L.A., but came back 10 days later to beat the Wildcats 67 - 54 in the title game of the Redondo Union Battle at the Beach Tournament.

Another big name that will miss the European Championship through injury is Reus, with Low revealing that it was tough to leave him out but was forced to do so with no guarantee over his fitness for the opening game of the tournament onwards.

They will close out their first round of EBAL play with three straight games from Sept. 26 - 28 before heading to Oak Ridge's tournament on Sept. 30.

The occasion of his 42nd, with one tournament deemed a success by most under his white belt, and 2018 looming for the injury - plagued superstar, seemed a good time to reflect on what we might expect from the world's 656th - ranked player when he kicks off his season poised to work himself into game shape for the Masters in April.

Any other coach but Adolph Rupp would have been satisfied with an 18 - 7 record, but The Baron, audibly piqued because Kentucky wasn't tournament - bound for the first time in seven years, took occasion to blame his troubles on 1) the school band, which stopped tooting for the Wildcats after midyear exams left most of its members on probation; 2) student fans, who were absent in droves for the final game; 3) the lack of a more intensive recruiting program.

The goal for the 24 - year old now, as well as helping Arsenal to finish this campaign as strongly as possible and secure a place at Europe's top table next time, is to get match sharp and find some form ahead of Euro 2016, a tournament that Wilshere played a big part in getting England to, with Man of the Match awards in six out of the seven qualifying games he played.

So if 65 teams qualify for the playoffs, then there will be 17 teams in the Division I bracket, with one out - bracket game to start the tournament.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Francis Alonso's 3 - pointer with 19.2 seconds remaining lifted top - seeded UNC Greensboro to a 56 - 55 win over No. 5 seed Wofford on Sunday and into the Southern Conference Tournament championship game.

The last two Final Four spots in the NCAA Men's Tournament will be settled on Sunday, as we'll take a quick look at today's March Madness games along with other happenings in the sports marketplace...

Dallas, a senior at Saint Mary's Catholic High, led the Knights to a 6 — 0 record at the MaxPreps Tournament of Champions, throwing a 12 - inning perfect game with 21 strikeouts in a 4 — 0 championship win.

Brumfield, a senior forward at Oklahoma Baptist, hit the game - winning shot with 3.3 seconds left in OT for an 81 — 79 semifinal win over Robert Morris in the NAIA Division I tournament.

When faced with a tough Spain side in the first game of the tournament, they matched them in a 1 - 1 draw, proving that they can hang with anyone.

Italy enters the Euro 2012 semifinal with only one win from four games, but they also enter the match having not suffered a loss in the tournament.

im not defending jack but the blame should go the england manager for selecting him for the euros, the guy was injured all season and had played 2 games at most before the start of the tournament, no matter how hard you train the only way to get back match fitness / sharpness is to play competitive games same thing with henderson and to another degree sterling for not being a starter with his club & lacking self confidence by not having played well, do you agree??

He finished with 24 points and 23 rebounds, marking just the fourth time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams that a player has had a 20 - point, 20 - rebound game.

UNC - Asheville flirted with the ultimate American upset - a 16 seed beating a one in the first (or second) round of the NCAA Tournament - before a handful of highly questionable calls late in the game quelled their chances and left the college basketball world with a sour taste in its collective mouth.

While there was competitive basketball and the potential for a historic upset taking place, there weren't any buzzer - beating finishes, there was only one game that might accurately be dubbed a «classic» at tournament's end, and that upset bid ultimately finished with an especially disappointing thud.

To illustrate the method, a typical No. 7 seed would expect to win about 0.9 games per tournament, on average, while a No. 7 seed with an SRS 2.9 points better than the seed average — like Michigan State this season — would expect to win about 1.0 games per tournament.

Unbeaten Winston - Salem, with marvelous Earl Monroe, the nation's hottest shooter (43.4 points a game), seemed to be a shoo - in at the CIAA tournament in Greensboro.

On the way to their ACC tournament showdown with Duke, North Carolina's Tar Heels ran into trouble, SOUTH CAROLINA slowed them down with a waiting game, harassed their big shooters with a 2 -1-2 zone and beat them 70 - 57.

For the second time in as many games, Loyola - Chicago advanced in the NCAA tournament by taking out a single - digit seed from a power conference with a clutch shot in the closing seconds.

Syracuse, which in big games has long been synonymous with ex-cuse, had won several testing contests (Florida, North Carolina) to get this far in the tournament, and Orange coach Jim Boeheim's changing defenses would continue to confound the master — «keep us guessing,» said Knight.

Each game in the annual summer event — where non-NBA players form teams and play in a winner take all tournament with a prize of $ 2 million — ends with the winning players going over to a monster bracket on the gym wall and advancing a magnetic (or sticky or whatever) plate with their team's name on it to the next round.

Texas A&M rose as high as No. 5 in the AP Top 25 Poll while winning 11 of its first 12 games, only to drop seven of its next nine and ultimately head into the SEC tournament with a 9 — 9 league record.

He dropped a career - high 31 points in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament and then followed that up with an 18 - point game in an upset of Kansas.

The 2017 NCAA men's Division I basketball tournament begins Tuesday with the play - in games, followed by the field of 64 tipping off Thursday.

The two played one of the more memorable games in recent tournament history, with the Wildcats prevailing and going on to play in the national title game.

They are unbeaten in the tournament so far this year but will be without top scorer Jackson Martinez for tonight's game, with the Colombian having picked up a groin strain.

With less than 30 seconds to go in overtime of the GLI tournament game between Western Michigan and # 3 ranked Michigan, Western's Josh Pitt had an amazing coast - to - coast goal.

Even with star guard C.J. McCollum sitting with two offensive fouls for large parts of the first half, Lehigh's magical ride continued in the first half of their second - round NCAA Tournament game against Xavier.

And with a shorter than usual summer break for the players due to the Euro 2016 tournament next summer, tomorrow's game and the one on Sunday against the Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg have taken on a more important role than usual.

He gave Kentucky its toughest game in the NCAA Tournament in 2012 with Royce White and four 3 - point shooters.

I agree we should not depend too much on Arteta for long term — but if we buy another midfielder we should get someone different from Coquelin with decent defence ability — an all around midfielder like Vidal who had won 20 duels in 2 copa games, more than any other players in the tournament.

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.