Word: bracketing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Consumers in their mid-50s to mid-60s spend 30% more on cars than any comparable group, and as the huge baby boom generation moves into that age bracket, carmakers are naturally catering to their latest tastes. Says Steve Barnes, 68, of Atlanta, owner of a snazzy Lexus SC 430: "I've been through the minivans and SUVs, and I was looking for a fun experience...
...been eight years since the Crimson last advanced past the ECAC Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. to the NCAA bracket. That was the final year of a run that saw Harvard qualify for the tournament in nine of 11 seasons, advance four times to the Frozen Four and win a national championship...
...result, for the first time since the NCAA went to a 12-team bracket in 1988, all six eastern conference schools will be heading to Worcester, while the six western teams selected will be traveling to the West Regional in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...NCAA committee was allowed to disregard regional flight considerations when selecting the top four teams in the bracket, each of which receives a first-round bye. Otherwise, any school within 400 miles of a regional site was forced to stay within that region regardless of seeding and prohibited from flying. All six eastern conference teams are based within 400 miles of the Centrum in Worcester, while four of the six teams in the west were farther than 400 miles from either NCAA Regional tournament site...
...east is if more than six earned bids to the tournament. Either Alaska-Fairbanks or Northern Michigan would have been the seventh western team, but Harvard’s improbable win, coupled with Cornell’s dominating ECAC campaign, placed two ECAC teams in the NCAA bracket. The Crimson’s win was especially bitter for Alaska-Fairbanks, which could have earned its first-ever NCAA berth...