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In a round-robin tournament, all playoff contenders play each other an equal number of times, usually once or twice (the latter is often called a "double round robin"). This is a common tournament format in association football. In the FIFA World Cup, teams are organized into eight pools of four teams, with each team playing the other three ...
In 2003, St. Bonaventure University's basketball team protested sanctions the NCAA levied against the team (the NCAA stripped the team of all their wins and barred them from the 2003 Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament for having a transfer student with inadequate academic credentials on the squad) by outright forfeiting the last two games ...
A bracket or tournament bracket is a tree-like diagram that represents the series of games played during a knockout tournament. Different knockout tournament formats have different brackets; the simplest and most common is that of the single-elimination tournament .
In NCAA Division I basketball conferences, a playoff or "postseason tournament" is held after the regular season. Most conferences, including all of the "major" basketball conferences ( ACC , American , Big East , Big Ten , Big 12 , Pac-12 , SEC ), hold their tournaments at a predetermined venue, with all conference teams participating (unless ...
The WNBA, from 2016 to 2021, had granted double byes to the league's top two seeds, while the next two seeds got first-round byes for their playoffs. In NCAA Division I basketball, the 2009 Big East men's basketball tournament introduced "double byes", as the conference invited all 16 members to participate for the first time (previously only ...
The IHSA football playoffs continue across Illinois as the high school football postseason enters its third weekend.. We will go from eight teams to a final four in each bracket, all aiming to ...
Television ratings for the College Football Playoff semifinals were down about 17 percent in the first season of the expanded 12-team format. Taking place later in January than under the previous ...
A one-game playoff, sometimes known as a pennant playoff, tiebreaker game or knockout game, is a tiebreaker in certain sports—usually but not always professional—to determine which of two teams, tied in the final standings, will qualify for a post-season tournament. Such a playoff is either a single game or a short series of games (such as ...