Word: upset
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...process, Albany, which came close to upsetting No. 1 seed UConn in last year’s NCAA tournament, snapped the Crimson’s four-game winning streak and avenged last season’s upset loss to Harvard...
...former Republican leader Tom DeLay has claimed another victim - a Republican in heavily Hispanic south Texas. In an unexpected coda to the G.O.P.'s midterm election debacle, seven-term Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla was defeated in a special runoff on Tuesday by former Democratic Congressman Ciro Rodriguez. The upset has Democrats dreaming of a fresh start in Texas, a state that has provided an almost unrelenting chain of bad news for the party in recent years...
...programs, and the best athletes, and over the course of the grueling 14 game league schedule of back-to-back Friday-Saturday games, that quality wins out. A conference tournament would allow an upstart team, or one playing particularly well at season’s end, to score an upset that would allow them to reach the promised land, the NCAA tournament, where Harvard has not been since 1946. The Crimson, incidentally, has never won an Ivy League title...
...postseason tournament would be a good thing. The purest, most fair way of determining the league winner is to see who plays the best throughout the season, as Bilski correctly points out. If Penn or Princeton wins the league, only to be knocked out in a first round upset in the conference tournament, it is highly unlikely that their Ratings Percentage Index (RPI) score would be strong enough to get them an at-large berth in the NCAAs...
...first round of the 2006 NCAA Tournament, the Great Danes, the America East Champion, came close to pulling off what would have been arguably the greatest upset in NCAA history, as it led #1 seed Connecticut by 12 points, 50-38, with under 12 minutes to play in the game. The Huskies would eventually rally...