Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jones' surprise announcement came one day before the Celtics meet the New York Knicks in the third game of their playoff series. Boston leads, 2-0, and can wrap the series up tonight (Ch. 56, 7:30 p.m.) with a victory at Madison Square Garden...
...Syracuse men's basketball team and the Philadelphia Flyers, both of whom had a chance for championships, were knocked out of their respective playoff appearances early...
Granted, the Division I-AA playoff process--four games over five weeks--is grueling. But if the Ivy League has a team capable of being the Division I-AA champion (and this would be rare enough to warrant a parade in each Ivy city), that team should be given the chance to prove itself...
...became part of Division I-AA, which features a post-season tournament. (Teams are assigned to divisions based on the number of spectators they draw.) In 1986, the Penn football team was ranked number seven in the Division I-AA poll and would have earned a bid to the playoff had it been eligible. This fall, Harvard was ranked in the top 20 within Division I-AA, but could not test its talents against other highly-ranked schools...
Besides, these administrators say, the Division I-AA playoff format--a grueling, four-game tournament spread out over five weeks--would keep players on the playing fields and away from the classrooms...