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Leicester City F.C., an Association football Club, won the Premier League in the 2015-16 season despite being 5000-1 underdogs, an example of an upset [1] An upset occurs in a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports, when the party popularly expected to win (the "favorite") is defeated by (or, in the case of sports, ties with) an underdog whom the majority expects to lose ...
References 0–9 2-for-1 A strategy used within the last minute of a period or quarter, in which the team with possession times its shot to ensure that it will regain possession with enough time to shoot again before time runs out. Applicable in competitions that use a shot clock (all except NFHS in most US states). 3-and-D Any player, typically not a star, who specializes mainly in three ...
An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, a single-elimination tournament, this generally constitutes a lower seeded team defeating a higher-seeded (i.e., higher-ranked) team; a widely recognized upset is one performed by a team ranked substantially lower than its opponent.
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Making their third straight NCAA Tournament appearance, the America East champion Catamounts (28-6) are a 13-seed and are sizing up a first-round upset against No. 4-seeded Duke (24-8).
The conference tournaments weren’t kind to the favorites in the South. Not until you reach the 11th seed, North Carolina State, do you find a league-tourney champ. The region includes several ...
As the phrase became more popular, ESPN decided to capitalize on the phenomenon with the concept of ESPN BracketBusters. The cable television network worked with a group of non-money conferences, including the Colonial Athletic, Horizon, Mid-American, Missouri Valley, and Western Athletic, to stage a series of games where potential bracket-buster teams would play each other late in the regular ...
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