That's two win and three draws, and one of those wins was an unimpressive slog against
the worst team of the tournament, notable only for a spectacular last - minute goal by Mario Balotelli.
Not exact matches
The Houston Astros may have vanquished the Sports Illustrated cover jinx by winning the World Series, but shortly after we put the finishing touches on our initial 1 — 351,
bad news struck two
of the
teams we predicted would make the NCAA
tournament for the first time in over a decade.
The Cardinals
badly needed this win to help their NCAA
Tournament resume, entering the game as one
of the last four
teams in the field, according to our latest projection.
If the
worst team in your
tournament is coached by Nick Saban or Urban Meyer and has one
of the country's two most talented rosters, you've got a hell
of a
tournament.
That makes a lot
of sense, since the committee intentionally pits the
worst four
teams in the
tournament against the four best.
Boston College has the second -
worst odds
of winning the
tournament at 50/1 and they're the only remaining
team that wasn't listed as an option during the preseason.
The thrashing handed out by Spain on Tuesday evening in Madrid was the joint -
worst defeat in the history
of the Argentina national
team, equaling the 6 - 1 scorelines suffered against Czechoslovakia in the 1958 World Cup and away to Bolivia in qualifying for the 2010
tournament.
SPAIN: The
team that produced the best performance
of the
tournament so far also showed the
worst complacency in losing to Croatia.