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Then came a 57-52 home defeat to Brown. That loss should have set off the warning bells; not since 1995-96 had the Tigers dropped their Ivy opener. Most fans and pundits, however, figured it was just a bump in an otherwise smooth road to the NCAA tournament. But after a win over Yale, Princeton traveled to Hanover and got beaten by the Big Green. And not beaten in any conventional manner—Dartmouth scored 18 of the game’s final 19 points to pull off the upset. Something was clearly wrong...
...even assuming that no upsets in conference tournaments would force the committee to invite a higher-ranked school at Colgate’s expense, the bonus points awarded for quality wins would in all likelihood bump the Raiders off the playoff bubble...
That system—which would bump the Raiders with a 20-8-2 record, but give 20-12-1 Minnesota, winner of just two of its last eight a No. 1 seed—doesn’t sit perfectly with ECAC coaches like Donato...
...wasn't. On the island roughly the size of Singapore, just a sliver of land was affected. Most of the deaths took place on only two beaches?Patong and its near neighbor Kamala?while some others received not much more than a rude bump. Even at Patong, most of the damage was confined to areas immediately behind the beach. Today, much of the debris has been cleared away or hidden behind high fences, and damaged hotels and businesses have already reopened or plan to do so in the next few months. "The devastation," says O.B. Wetzell, an American resort developer...
...With the numbers given to us at the time, we made the best estimates we could,” Mahan said. “But we’ll have to ask for a slight bump in the allocation...