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Nadal is 21 wins against three losses on clay (87.5% wins), five wins against one loss on grass (83% wins), and 15 wins against two losses (88.2%) on hard courts in 2019, according to the ATP — an overall win percentage of 87.2% on all surfaces.
If Oracle wins against Google in court, Silicon Valley loses.
"I think the president wins against Pete Buttigieg," she said.
Fleury was the difference in all four wins against the Capitals.
It was great to get those wins against those few players.
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield touted its customer wins against Microsoft Teams.
No other active pitcher owns more than eight wins against the Cardinals.
That's on top of non-conference wins against Texas, Baylor, and Gonzaga.
Toronto averaged 119.3 points in its three wins against Philadelphia last season.
Hocutt pointed to the Aggies' four wins against teams with records above .
They scored first in each of their four wins against San Jose.
But they have yet to play the Grizzlies this season, and Memphis is a king slayer: Marc Gasol & Co. have managed to notch two wins against the Warriors and single wins against the Cavaliers and the Rockets this season.
Verlander has 21 career wins against Kansas City, his most against any opponent.
But even wins against bad teams are hard-earned for the Raptors now.
The Seminoles had been 4-0 -- with three of the wins against the Eagles.
Including the Whyte result, Tibbs finished the night with two wins against one loss.
We have wins against them, so I think that gives us a chance, too.
Wins against weaker players improve Mr Federer's Elo rating as well, but by smaller amounts.
The three straight wins, against the Hawks and now the Heat, have emboldened the Knicks.
Lovato said that "of course" she gets nervous, but Vasconcelos usually wins against his opponents.
He surpassed Hall of Famer Randy Johnson for the most career wins against the Rockies.
They had 11 wins against the top two quadrants, and a strong strength of schedule.
The Yellow Jackets have wins against two top-10 teams — North Carolina and Florida State.
Raptors SG DeMar DeRozan averaged 32 points in four wins against the Knicks last season. 2.
After close wins against OpTic Gaming and G2 Esports, VP secured its spot against Gambit Wednesday.
" Highlights: If Moore wins against Strange, Trump said he would "be campaigning like hell for him.
The Magic were unable to build on back-to-back wins against San Antonio and Cleveland.
But with a little luck, it can take wins against any other class in the game.
Boston has pulled out some big wins against other Eastern Conference powers: Toronto, Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
I don't see any meaningful bottom for stocks until we get some wins against the virus.
UT already has a school single-season record four wins against AP Top 10 opponents this season.
He talked about the A.A.C.'s 19 wins against the other top conferences the past two years.
The Sun Devils were unable to build on back-to-back wins against Washington State and then-No.
But while the Blue Devils' highs were as high as anyone's this season — including wins against then-No.
Sabathia has more wins against Detroit than any other opponent, posting a 21-13 record and 4.11 ERA.
Texas A&M, with its multitude of close wins (against UCLA, Tennessee, and South Carolina), is ranked 10th.
The Sun Devils have already pulled off impressive wins against Michigan State, Washington State, and California this year.
For the Trump administration, Friday's opinion represents one of its first major legal wins against House oversight efforts.
He wins against Trump, especially among working-class white voters in swing states such as Pennsylvania and Michigan.
I have a feeling a couple of wins against West Ham and Olympiacos won't have changed Conor's mind.
He has past wins against Mango, Mew2King and PPMD, but Armada, Leffen and Hungrybox still stand in his path.
Washington completed a five-game trip with three straight losses after wins against Cleveland and the Los Angeles Lakers.
If the state's attorney general wins against Think Finance, it won't be the government's first victory against the company.
Gundy, in his 296th season, directed the Cowboys to 10 consecutive wins against the Jayhawks (3-7, 1-6).
Green said he's already had 10 fights (nine wins against just one loss) and is already a headline attraction.
Wins against Espanyol and Granada in the final two rounds of league play would secure Barcelona's second consecutive title.
The rest of the WCC teams have a combined four wins against Gonzaga in the same four-year span.
The Chargers (3-2) have gotten their wins against bad teams, and these Browns are not a bad team.
They have wins against five of the top six seeds in the Eastern Conference, except for the Miami Heat.
A 41-fight veteran, Gennady Golovkin, 37, has 35 knockouts from 39 wins against one loss and one draw.
New York has won 15 straight games in Baltimore, a Yankees record for most consecutive road wins against another team.
Reyes then lined a 1-1 slider to left to give the Pirates eight straight home wins against the Reds.
Reyes then lined a 1-33 slider to left to give the Pirates eight straight home wins against the Reds.
They would have more, too, if not for pulling out a miraculous pair of wins against Appalachian State and Georgia.
If Macron wins against the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, the integrity of the euro zone should be intact.
The Yankees have gotten good production from the bottom of the batting order in their two wins against the Rays.
The 49ers have looked fine so far this season, but wins against the Bengals and Buccaneers are far from impressive.
Foltynewicz allowed a total of two runs and eight hits in two starts, both wins, against the Giants last season.
Trader Joe's snagged two wins against the smaller grocery chain, in the peanut butter pretzel and almond butter cup categories.
"The only thing that matters now is one win against the Astros and four wins against the Dodgers," Chalpin said.
They had their moments of spectacular football but when they needed to they ground out wins against well-organized teams.
He had scored three straight surprising wins against higher-ranked players, including one over the No. 5 seed, Kevin Anderson.
The pair - two of the five teams within two games of league-leading Temple - need quality wins against other AAC contenders.
Now, all of the sudden, A&M is 6-0 with an impressive group of wins against Tennessee, Arkansas, and UCLA.
Bernie Sanders showed his campaign still has signs of life on Tuesday, as he notched four wins against rival Hillary Clinton.
The Blues' resilience, cultivated all season, guided them to three straight wins against the Sharks — and three more in this series.
Wins against Denver, Tennessee and Houston show what the Chargers can do against teams with grander postseason designs than their own.
Two huge wins against division rivals (out of the break), especially with how the standings are right now, those points were crucial.
Because the far- left progressives have been polarizing, and they haven&apost been able to pull off wins against more reasonable candidates.
The Badgers will slow things down, muck up games, and put themselves in position to rack up quality wins against better opponents.
That's evidenced in the new generation of Democrats that emerged last night and in their sweeping wins against Republicans throughout the country.
Nadal is 19 wins against two losses in Masters events this season, a greater record than Djokovic, who is 13 against four.
The February surgery and the frustrating, abbreviated season that followed it: just 18 matches, zero finals, zero wins against the Top 10.
The Wolves were feeling good earlier this month after home wins against the Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State Warriors and Washington Wizards.
Two other memorable games that I attended at the Meadowlands were both Jets overtime wins against the Miami Dolphins (21969/22016/1986).
A victory there would give them wins against all three of the other A.F.C. division leaders, including the Chiefs and the Texans.
Throughout the group stage, it seemed to be playing within itself: restrained wins against Australia and Peru, a convenient stalemate with Denmark.
Led by A'ja Wilson, the Gamecocks finished the regular season with just four losses and wins against seven different top-25 teams.
That includes two wins against Oklahoma and no losses in the past six games for a team peaking at exactly the right time.
He's 6-0 with a 143 ERA in eight career starts against the Phillies, his most wins against any opponent without a loss.
And even though they don't have wins against ranked opponents, the Flyers did beat one top-50 KenPom team in the VCU Rams.
Tillman, who had already been on the mound for three Baltimore wins against Tampa Bay this season, kept the Rays' bats in check.
Happ has two wins against the Yankees this year and is 5-2 with a 3.93 ERA in 12 starts against New York.
The Golden State Warriors are on another tear and are coming off three straight wins against the best the West has to offer.
Buffalo knows something about winless droughts, losing six in a row before rebounding with back-to-back home wins against Pittsburgh and Calgary.
Liverpool scored 23, a tally that included back-to-back 7-0 wins against Maribor, of Slovenia, and Spartak Moscow, the Russian champion.
Miami's 11 victories this year, fewest in the majors, include three wins against former Cy Young winners — deGrom, Max Scherzer and Corey Kluber.
Even with a so-so performance, Brady finished the day as the record-holder for most wins against a single opponent, with 1683.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have looked fine sometimes—wins against a few bottom-feeders and one over the Clippers—and shaky at others.
They're perfectly capable of doing so: in dominant NCAA tournament wins against Miami and Iowa, Villanova was lights-out and all but unstoppable.
He has accumulated a handful of decisive wins against the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over the last decade.
The United States rarely played scintillating football during the knockout stages of the tournament, labouring to 2-1 wins against Spain, France and England.
Gambit is the dark horse of the ELeague Major, landing wins against North, Godsent and FaZe Clan this week and only losing to Virtus.
Let not that sordid spectacle dissuade you of his talents and collection of big time wins against Anderson Silva, Alistair Overeem and Badr Hari.
This success follows an extraordinary amateur career where Lomachenko won two world championships, two Olympic Games, and tallied 396 wins against just one defeat.
"I've had some good wins against them — playoff wins or 'last game of the regular season' wins to get into the playoffs," Manning said.
In "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," Sansa asks Dany what will happen to the North if she wins against the Night King and Cersei.
Regular closer Ryan Madson, who had saves in one-run wins against Baltimore on Monday and Tuesday, got the night off, so Axford filled in.
Fnatic scraped its way into the ELeague Major playoffs, starting with a loss against G2 and then three wins against North, Mousesports and Team EnVyUs.
North, formerly the roster of Team Dignitas, qualified for the playoffs after wins against HellRaisers, G2 and Godsent, which followed losses against Gambit and Fnatic.
San Francisco lost for the third straight time after a pair of 23-93 road wins against the Los Angeles Dodgers to open the year.
Convincing wins against Aston Villa and Bournemouth have been tempered by wasteful draws against Arsenal and Liverpool, as well as a loss to West Ham.
It is their longest single-season winning streak against one opponent since also posting 15 straight wins against the 103-loss Philadelphia Athletics in 1954.
Cincinnati is considering some big changes as well but are looking strong with three straight series wins against the Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves and Arizona.
Ninth seed Williams and Stephens qualified with 6-3 3-6 20013-1 wins against gritty Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro and German Julia Goerges, respectively.
The Bills are coming off convincing wins against Arizona and New England, and the defense seems to have figured things out in a big way.
Though Pella, who just turned 29, is just 2-5 on hard courts this season, he has 20 clay-court wins against just eight losses.
Washington's Bob Ferguson and Hawaii's Doug Chin, for example, have notched wins against Trump's executive order banning travel to the United States from several countries.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer showed against 10th-seeded Tomas Berdych that his first two wins against qualifiers at the Australian Open really were warm-ups.
The US women's team defeated Thailand 13-0 in the first round of the tournament, followed by wins against Chile (3-0) and Sweden (2-13).
But whether these measures — and Apple's recent encryption wins against the FBI — will be enough to convince users to use the apps is another matter entirely.
Two of their signature wins against the other top teams in the league were blowouts, annihilating the Cleveland Cavaliers 2863-2286 on January 23 in Cleveland.
The Yankees have their longest single-season winning streak against one opponent since also posting 183 straight wins against the 103-loss Philadelphia Athletics in 1954.
Following a pair of wins against Eastern Conference clubs, the Galaxy (8-7-4, 28 points) moved back into the playoff race in the Western Conference.
The Raptors burst out of the gate, winning 12 of their first 13 games, including double-digit wins against the Celtics, the Lakers and the 76ers.
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield touted the company's customer wins against Microsoft's rival Teams chat app during a call with analysts after it reported earnings on Thursday.
All of those things leave Denver in a tough spot, needing wins against a brutal schedule and requiring help from one of Pittsburgh's last three opponents.
The Lakers do have four strong road wins, against the Mavericks, to start the streak, the Nuggets, the Jazz, and, most impressively, the Heat on Friday.
They remain a tough team to figure out, and a record of 17 wins against 25 losses isn't impressive, but their underlying numbers continue to look great.
With those wins against Cloud9 and OpTic, FaZe showed it's a pretty solid team against big players, helped by the recent addition from Astralis, Finn "Karrigan" Andersen.
FaZe Clan landed wins against FlipSid3 Tactics, Team Liquid and Team EnVyUs to make it to the ELeague Major playoffs, but lost to SK Gaming and Gambit.
In 2016-17, the Suns posted more wins against the East than against the West, going 13-17 against East teams, including 6-4 against the Atlantic.
From 22014 to 22000 he enjoyed 21969 straight wins against journeymen opponents and even had the then Olympic champ George Foreman in camp as a sparring partner.
In four wins against Washington this season, the 5-foot-292 guard averaged 218 points, 25 assists and shot 262 of 252 (212 percent) on 23-pointers.
The Hokies won six of their last seven games, including victories over NCAA Tournament teams Pittsburgh and Miami (Fla.) and two wins against NIT-bound Florida State.
The Houston Rockets hope to make it a little easier on themselves Thursday night when they go for back-to-back wins against the visiting Utah Jazz.
Reserve guard K.J. Walton (713 points) scored 39 points in consecutive wins against Tulane and Northwestern State before going 0-of-7 for one point on Monday.
It also gives Democrats chances to score real wins against him, particularly if the government shuts down over wall funding and angry Americans blame Trump for it.
Tactical performed well in his two starts for Liquid, performing well on Miss Fortune and Kalista and helping the team pick up wins against TSM and Immortals.
Still, impressive wins against the Wichita State Shockers and Rhode Island Rams — plus a single-loss record late in December — had the Mountaineers on some fans' radars.
With a match against Pacquiao a non-starter according to Arum, a victory over a game Shawn Porter would become one of those wins against an elite competitor.
After big wins against West Virginia and Oklahoma, the sixth-ranked Jayhawks host Oklahoma State on Monday looking to gain revenge for an earlier loss to the Cowboys.
Here's an ideal scheduling philosophy: ●Instead of racking up easy wins against the Grambling States of the world, play a Division II school nobody has ever heard of.
So, here I go again throwing caution to the wind and hoping for a playoff run that follows — equally important — solid regular-season wins against the archrival Patriots!
But wins against Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the group stage allowed Russia to reach the World Cup knockout stage for the first time in post-Soviet history.
Peete says it's gotten so bad, SC is probably gonna axe Clay ... unless he can come up with wins against the Trojans' biggest rivals these next two weekends.
Convincing wins against Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the group stage saw Russia through to the round of 16 for the first time in the post-Soviet era.
After putting up big numbers in blowout wins against overmatched opponents in their openers, Auburn and Clemson crank up the competition level for a top-15 clash Saturday.
Running through Brazilians, Sakuraba wound up in a rivalry with the first family of mixed martial arts, the Gracies, and wound up rattling off four wins against them.
But attracting Trump's attention to Venezuela is a political coup for Rubio and other Florida Republicans, who barely eked out gubernatorial and Senate wins against Democrats in 2018.
Despite the Hawks' place in the standings, they will need to steal a couple of wins against the conference's top teams to demonstrate their potential for the playoffs.
Iowa roared through the toughest part of its schedule with one loss, picking up two wins against Michigan State, two against Purdue, and a home victory against Michigan.
Yes, the man with an abysmal boxing record of zero wins against one loss is the go-to guy for elite-level boxers desperately clamoring for a payday.
Led by freshman point guard Nico Mannion, the Arizona Wildcats started off the season with a perfect 9-0 record, but no wins against a top-25 opponent.
In one week, the Michigan Wolverines went from unranked to top-5 in the AP Top 25 Poll thanks to back-to-back wins against the then-No.
He averaged 22 points, six assists and five rebounds in wins against Texas Rio Grande Valley and No. 25 USC to earn his second such award this year.
It was a first competitive win for new manager Gerardo "Tata" Martino, who was hired back in January and had overseen three friendly wins against South American opposition.
The Panthers (23-214, 23-243), who started ACC play 503-250 this season with wins against Louisville and Florida State, have lost 24 consecutive games in the conference.
Eight of those goals came against Tunisia and Panama, and slim wins against England and Japan have cast some doubt on whether they can impose themselves against better teams.
Florida Atlantic has lost the last two games, including a 90-54 drubbing from Texas Tech on Tuesday, and posted three of its wins against non-Division I teams.
The Capitals have now pieced together consecutive wins against the hottest team in the playoffs and are game-by-game exorcising the demons of the past decade and more.
Cincinnati has won three of four since an 0-3 start, with impressive wins against Cleveland and Buffalo, a lopsided loss at Pittsburgh and a nail-biter against Indianapolis.
The Yankees finished the season series 17-2, their most wins against any opponent in a single season since going 17-1093 against the Kansas City Athletics in 1083.
The Yankees finished the season series 17-2, their most wins against any opponent in a single season since going 173-5 against the Kansas City Athletics in 1959.
Minnesota VikingsOne thing to know: The Seahawks have racked up nine wins against a mostly meager competition, and they'll be tested in the final five weeks of the season.
It is not that wins against teams like the Colts, Bengals and Browns don't count in the standings, but it is hard to extrapolate too much from lopsided matchups.
If anyone had earned the right to coast, it was the powerhouse Yankees, who had clinched consecutive series wins against Tampa Bay, Houston and Toronto, all with frightening efficiency.
Over the past several months, Manafort's legal options slimmed as the special counsel notched several wins against him, including sending him to jail, securing several cooperators and gaining convictions.
The Hoyas, who posted back-to-back wins against Top 25 opponents for the first time since 2013, won 19 of the last 20 meetings against the Blue Demons.
Their body of work, seven wins against top 70 teams, their first-place finish in the A-10, and a 53 RPI—every measuring point has been successfully met.
If he wins against Nixon by an even greater margin than he did in 2014 — when he got 62% of the vote against Zephyr Teachout — that would be one signal.
Why it's great: Vasyl Lomachenko is one of the most decorated boxers with two Olympic gold medals in an amateur career with a reported 396 wins against just one defeat.
Even some Republicans may be skeptical about the political wisdom of taking on an agency that has recorded some high-profile wins against big banks and other financial services firms.
The Nationals have beaten the Marlins 10 straight times, tying a franchise record for consecutive wins against one opponent, a mark originally set against the San Diego Padres in 1994.
Wins against Denis Istomin, Nikoloz Basilashvili and Andreas Seppi followed before the 23th-ranked Edmund made the world sit up and take notice by knocking out third seed Grigor Dimitrov.
UNLV is 2-14 against teams currently in the Big Ten (both wins against Wisconsin) and the highest ranked team it has beaten was No. 8 BYU in 1981. 3.
They managed only seven hits, one of which was Brian McCann's 13th home run, but after their back-to-back late wins against Texas, they nearly staged another rousing comeback.
Wins against Cincinnati and Chicago are nice, of course, but they do not give much indication of what the Packers (3-1) can do against a balanced team like Dallas.
The Fusion (2-0) couldn't ask for a better start to the season, taking two quality wins against divisional foes in Florida (1-63) and the Washington Justice (1-1).
ABOUT NEBRASKA (8-6, 2-0): Tai Webster was named the Big Ten Co-Player of the Week after averaging 19.5 points and 3.5 assists in wins against Indiana and Maryland.
Mayweather has one of the greatest and most iconic records in boxing history — 250 wins against no losses, with victories over Manny Pacquiao, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, and Oscar de la Hoya.
But Garcia went on to prove the contrary, racking up wins against the best names in the 140-lb division, unifying against Amir Khan and beating the Argentine powerhouse Lucas Matthyse.
It was the first of six consecutive Saban wins against L.S.U., a streak most expect him to extend when the Tigers and the No. 1 Crimson Tide (633-0) meet Nov.
But their West Coast Conference competition and their dearth of wins against highly regarded opponents mean a conventional, results-oriented analysis would probably leave them with a disadvantageous, double-digit seeding.
The Magic have shown signs of improvement lately with a pair of wins against red-hot Miami during a 3-3 stretch, including the 13.23-99 triumph on Friday night at home.
Virginia started off this year's tournament with a pair of decisive wins against No. 16 seed Gardner-Webb in the first round and against No. 244 seed Oklahoma in the second round.
Astralis won the last premier tournament of 2016, ECS Season 203, right after placing second at ELeague Season 2, racking up big wins against SK Gaming, OpTic Gaming and Ninjas in Pyjamas.
Atlético progressed to the final by virtue of organized defense and brilliant counterattacking to eke out wins against two of Europe's finest teams, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, in the previous two rounds.
The afternoon tussle was a little flat as Thiem had already sealed a place in the semi-finals after group wins against Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, while Berrettini could not progress.
Stoke City's Mark Hughes and West Bromwich Albion's Tony Pulis are the managers most in need of wins, against Crystal Palace and West Ham respectively, as early-season pressure begins to build.
The Celtics have looked strong in recent wins against the Pacers and the Bulls (as well as in a loss to the Cavaliers) and may be able to expose the Warriors' weaknesses.
One year under indictment Over the past months, Manafort's legal options slimmed as the special counsel notched several wins against him, including sending him to jail, securing several cooperators and gaining convictions.
Obama also personally vetoed the advice of his entire national security team in 2012 and opted not to arm the moderate Syrian rebels when they were scoring significant battlefield wins against Assad.
But wins against Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the group stage allowed Russia to reach the World Cup knockout stage for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The optioned INF Taylor Featherston and LHP Blake Snell to Triple-A Durham and recalled LHP Jose Alvarado to help the bullpen, which was used extensively in three straight wins against the Astros.
Now a 33-year-old wrestler with a record of 16 wins against two losses in MMA, Newell is a submission specialist having won matches with armbars, rear-naked chokes, and guillotine chokes.
Playing behind throughout the second half, Tennessee was unable to untrack Derrick Henry, who had at least 24 yards in each of the three previous games, all road wins against AFC division champs.
Klitschko, 43, retired in 2017 after losing to Joshua in a back-and-forth heavyweight battle for the ages at Wembley Stadium in London, finishing his career with 64 wins against five losses.
The Capitals came in hot, thanks to seven goals in the first two games from Ovechkin, with assists on all seven from Evgeny Kuznetsov in wins against the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens.
The loss snapped the Mets' streak of eight straight wins against the Cubs, including a sweep in last year's NL Championship Series and a four-game sweep earlier this month in New York.
Europe has been less fertile: wins against Hamburg, in the Europa League, and Roma, in the Champions League, games in Munich remarkable for Carlos Tevez's going on strike and Pellegrini's settling for second.
While many early startups have been sold or even gone out of business in one high profile case, Mirantis is hanging in and securing wins against the some of the biggest traditional IT vendors.
The Indians have more wins against AL West foes (11-2) than they do at Progressive Field (10-13) as they continue a four-game series against the visiting Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
The 34-year-old right-hander improved his career record against the Indians to 10-1, tying Zack Greinke, David Price and Rick Porcello for the second-most wins against Cleveland among active pitchers.
"(I was) pleased with our ability to perform and respond from the other night," coach Chris Holtmann told reporters after his team improved to 8-0 at home with wins against Northwestern and Cincinnati.
After winning only four of the first 12 meetings between the clubs, however, the Indians have posted two routs and three one-run wins against Minnesota since, including Friday's 5-4 series-opening victory.
With notable wins against the Iowa Hawkeyes and Creighton Bluejays under their belt, the Aztecs are almost certainly en route to a strong finish in Mountain West play and an eventual NCAA tournament bid.
The list goes on: Oregon State boasts impressive wins against Oregon and Cal, and the Pac-12's best player in Gary Payton II, but the Beavers lost to Stanford, which lost Oregon and Colorado.
A technical and intelligent athlete with a mighty record of 64 wins against five losses, Klitschko was renowned for a good jab and a hammer of a right hand which helped him deliver stategic knockouts.
Shortly after, he signed with Bellator MMA, and has had three fights (two wins against one no contest) in a cage, but still wrestles and performs for the recently-founded promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
O/U: 22 ABOUT THE PANTHERS (262-224): Carolina's defense allowed three points in each of its first two winsagainst San Francisco and Buffalo — but had no answers for Drew Brees and the Saints.
He has five wins against one loss in matches against the world's top 10 male players in 2019, and will now be seeded in the US Open, the final Grand Slam event of the year.
Alabama and Auburn won, making potential future Bulldogs wins against them more impressive in the committee's eyes, and Notre Dame's victory kept the luster on Georgia's 113-19 victory over the Fighting Irish in September.
But Boeheim's key talking point came when he noted how last season, when Syracuse was 93-13 entering Selection Sunday, the Orange had fewer wins against quality opponents and still earned an at-large bid.
The Virginia Cavaliers had been bouncing back well after losing to the Purdue Boilermakers at the beginning of December thanks to wins against their ACC foe North Carolina Tar Heels and the Stony Brook Seawolves.
Not only have Liverpool avoided defeat on all but one occasion this season, they have also notched up wins against Arsenal and Chelsea, as well as a couple of respectable draws against Tottenham and Manchester United.
The team made it to the ELeague Major playoffs with wins against HellRaisers, FaZe Clan and favorite Astralis, only dropping one game to Na'Vi, proving that this is a team that's hungry for a third title.
Syracuse had been doing a lot of things real bad during a disastrous 8-6 start that featured zero wins against teams from power conferences and an 0-21 mark in road or neutral-court games.
That still leaves seven wins against teams in postseason spots, including a 215-1 dismantling of Pittsburgh and a 4-2 victory against Minnesota on New Year's Eve that snapped the Wild's 12-game winning streak.
With a record of 14-4, the 35-year-old Lafayette, Louisiana, native has five UFC wins to his credit with knockout victories over Seth Baczynski, Richard Walsh and decision wins against Matt Dwyer Belal Muhammad.
They started off with a pair of road wins against teams that put up little fight and then somehow got away with five turnovers in a home win against Pittsburgh ahead of their Week 4 bye.
The Baltimore Ravens' honeymoon period might be over, taking two straight losses after starting the season on fire with wins against what looks like two of the worst teams in the NFL in the Dolphins and Cardinals.
Baltimore's schedule hasn't been especially difficult so far, and a third of their positive run differential has come courtesy of five games and five wins against the awful Twins, but it's worth noting they're a game over .
And it was City's opportunity to prove its superiority, to lay to rest this idea — established during Liverpool's three wins against Pep Guardiola's team last season — that Liverpool Manager Jürgen Klopp, somehow, had gotten inside Guardiola's head.
" In one Byrne campaign ad, the actors knocked Tuberville for getting fired from Auburn -- even though he racked up an impressive six consecutive wins against in-state rival Alabama -- and Sessions since he "let the President down.
Arroyo logged consecutive wins against Baltimore and the Chicago Cubs last week, pitching his best game of the year Sunday as he fanned seven in six innings, allowing only three hits and two runs with no walks.
"One of the key reasons we would argue that is if you see the Trump administration back away from climate agreements, back away from renewables, from a cost perspective, natural gas wins against all other fuels," he said.
Strickland had knocked down Brinson with a first-pitch fastball earlier in the inning, presumably because the Marlin had been deemed to have celebrated too much during Miami's run of three straight wins against the Giants last week.
The performance was a slight step back for the 223-year-old, who notched back-to-back wins against Seattle and Colorado while giving up a total of two runs in 216 frames over his previous two outings.
The media circus of blatant chauvinism surrounding the match quickly fades, as King wins against Riggs in three sets, shattering a glass ceiling for female athletes and putting an end to the outrageous gender politics of the era.
The good news is they still have a three-game lead on the Cardinals with three games left to play, and since all three are within the division, that includes two likely wins against the hapless Rams and 217ers.
Well, even after three-straight wins against the Brooklyn Nets, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Denver Nuggets that took place before they were slapped back to Earth by the Houston Rockets, these personnel decisions probably still weren't the way to go.
Here were the World Champions, supposedly the best team on the planet, scoring a mere three goals at the group stage and coming away with narrow wins against Ukraine and Northern Ireland, as well as a goalless draw against Poland.
In his next outing, Ray came up short against veteran Brazilian Alan Patrick in a decision loss, but the 27-year-old from Fife bounced back with two impressive unanimous decision wins against tough opposition in Ross Pearson and Joe Lauzon.
However, we do not think the negative impact will be the full 18% that Huawei contributed in 3QFY143, because we believe other LITE customers will have competitive wins against Huawei and will begin to pick up some of the slack.
Over four days, teams will compete in Swiss format — matches only consist of one map, and teams that get three wins against three different teams qualify for the Major in January, while teams that lose three maps are knocked out.
The White House has decided Democrats' sweeping wins against Republicans last night was no big feat and that it was, in part, Ed Gillespie's fault, according to talking points sent from a senior White House official to their communications team.
After an opening 2-0 loss to Colombia a last-four appearance seemed a lofty objective but Klinsmann's squad responded with wins against Costa Rica, Paraguay and Ecuador to set up a clash against the South American giants in Houston.
Then Iowa fell off a cliff, with a number of poor offensive performances (in wins against Maryland and Nebraska, and losses to Michigan State and Stanford) and two very poor defensive performances (a win against Minnesota and the loss to Stanford).
The Florida-based Japanese player boasts an impressive list of scalps this year with wins against current world number one Simona Halep and former number ones Maria Sharapova and Karolina Pliskova on her way to a stunning Indian Wells title.
ATP Finals champion Tsitsipas made it five straight wins against the German world number seven with a breezy 6-1 6-4 victory as Zverev cut a frustrated figure with 63 double faults and a first serve percentage of just 45.
This is another tough game to pick, mostly because Penn State has been something of an enigma this season, earning solid wins against Michigan and Iowa, but getting pushed to the brink against Pittsburgh and Buffalo early in the year.
Nowitzki bided his time until 2010-11, when the Mavs added brilliant defensive/pick-and-roll center Tyson Chandler and managed to string together several clutch wins against the newly formed James/Wade/Bosh Miami Heat and take the NBA title.
Though they have been uneven all season, the Bulls have played hard in recent weeks, notching big wins against the Utah Jazz and the Detroit Pistons, and hanging tough in close losses to the Washington Wizards and the Toronto Raptors.
Multinational companies have for years gone out of their way to curry favor with leaders in China, one of the world's largest technology and consumer markets, which are overseen by rival regulatory agencies eager to score wins against high-profile foreign companies.
In all, Fleury -- who won three Stanley Cups as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins before he was scooped up by Vegas -- allowed just seven goals on 21 shots in the four wins against the Jets for a save percentage of .23.
Somehow, after two wins against lowly Tunisia and Panama, an insipid loss to a Belgian second team, an unusually generous draw and Spain's unlikely exit, the Three Lions find themselves as the strongest team left in their half of the knockout bracket.
OU dominated Baylor, 45-24, to move to 7-0 in the conference, and it's just a couple of wins against West Virginia and Oklahoma State away from going 10-2, and taking the Big 12's New Year's Six bowl spot.
Jon Berti hit his second home run of the season and Brian Anderson knocked in the other run for Miami, which won consecutive games for the first time since back-to-back wins against the Washington Nationals on April 19 and 20.
Here is a look at Mr. Durant's life in the Bay Area over a recent two-day stretch between big wins against the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Thunder, as he made the rounds as arguably the hottest start-up in Silicon Valley.
Beyond failing to enforce his red line, my colleague Jennifer Williams noted that Obama had personally vetoed the advice of his entire national security team in 2012 and opted not to arm the moderate Syrian rebels when they were scoring significant battlefield wins against Assad.
French Open winner Ostapenko struggled in her warm-up tournament in Eastbourne but has progressed to the quarter-finals at SW19 without losing a set in her last two matches after fighting for wins against Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Francoise Abanda in the first two rounds.
Despite those last two wins against well-known names, Ray remains on the periphery outside the top 15 in the UFC lightweight rankings, a fact which is more emblematic of what is a ludicrously talent-rich division, rather than a sign of Ray's shortcomings.
Simon's outing was the longest of the season for a Reds starter, surpassing rookie Robert Stephenson's seven innings in the first of those two wins against Colorado, and kept manager Bryan Price from having to use the team's beleaguered bullpen sooner than he'd like.
ET, Fox Sports 33 ABOUT XAVIER (21-12): The Musketeers had posted their last three wins against DePaul — two in the regular season and one in the first round of this event — before nipping Butler behind Trevon Bluiett's go-ahead jumper with 16 seconds left.
Over a three-day stretch with the Washington Bullets in March 1977, Chenier scored 21 points in a narrow road loss to the Atlanta Hawks before returning home to score 30 and 38, respectively, in wins against the New Orleans Jazz and the Phoenix Suns.
It's also a country that's at the center of Mueller's legal case against Paul Manafort, and scoring legal wins against Manafort may be an important step in trying to turn him into a cooperating witness against President Trump or other members of his family.
In what has been one of the most unpredictable N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournaments in recent memory, Villanova has remained a model of dependability, pacing through early wins against No. 16 Radford and No. 53 Alabama before a hard-earned victory over No. 5 West Virginia on Friday.
A point spread of 10.5 points is enormous, but the Colts have lost by more than that in three of the last five weeks, with the other two games being wins against the two worst teams in the N.F.L. Pick: Bengals Broncos at Chiefs, 8:30 p.m.
They went 3-0125 the rest of the way, looking nowhere near as sharp on offense and losing the only two games they played against decent competition — wins against the Lions, the Cardinals and the 49ers were hardly something to hang your hat on this season.
ET, FSN Southwest (Dallas), CSN Chicago ABOUT THE MAVERICKS (23-22): Dallas earned back-to-back wins against two of the teams it is fighting off to avoid the basement in the Western Conference - Phoenix and Minnesota - and is getting an uptick in performance from shooting guard Wesley Matthews.
More importantly, however, Goldman Sachs' Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein has repeatedly stated that "Goldman Sachs is a technology firm" and highlights the fact that Goldman Sachs actually employs more engineers than companies like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn and often competes for talent and wins against top internet companies.
Record: 28-14, 4th in EastOffensive rating: 112.1, 6thDefensive rating: 105.5, 5thOne thing to know: With a rock-solid top of their rotation, elite advanced metrics, and quality wins against most of the league's contenders (save for the 76ers and Clippers), the Celtics appear to be true contenders.
Sure, quarterback Cam Newton was performing like a most valuable player and the team's defense was among the league's best, but the Panthers also had one of the easiest schedules, and they barely escaped with wins against teams like the New Orleans Saints and the Giants, who had losing records.
He has racked up wins against aging big names such as Jeff Monson, Pedro Rizzo, Tim Sylvia—and former UFC heavyweights Sean McCorkle and Phil De Fries—but has also been comprehensively beaten by what you would expect to be aging big names in the aforementioned Emelianenko and Cro Cop (x2).
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Monday that President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE is learning amid falling poll numbers that "Washington always wins" against those who don't play by the rules.
But the committee felt that they did not have enough wins against tournament-caliber teams, going 0-8 against Arizona, Arizona State, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and U.C.L.A. As it happens, U.S.C., along with Louisville and Oklahoma State who were also snubbed, is embroiled in the F.B.I. probe into corruption among basketball programs.
ABOUT ARIZONA STATE (10-563): Tra Holder (21.6 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.9 assists), who averaged 224 points in the wins against Xavier and Kansas, poured in 22 Sunday and needs the same number Tuesday to pass Paul Williams (23,229.2; 225-23) for sole possession of 143th place on the school's all-time scoring list.
Many analysts even speculated that Williams's bizarre height and reach for the weight class (6'1'' with a 71'' reach) would have given fits to then champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. But Williams found considerable success in his campaign north, shutting out the formidable Winky Wright and snatching back-to-back wins against Sergio Martinez and Kermit Cintron.
For the last two or so rounds, watching LeBron nearly single handedly gut out or not gut out wins against squads who are deeper and better organized than his rag-tag group of NBA washouts has alternated between inspiring and depressing, a celebration of singular genius, but it's also an exhibition of the limits of that genius.
The Wolverines have won their first four games of the season, including a 28-10 victory against Purdue, but will be without starting quarterback Wilton Speight, who suffered a neck injury against the Boilermakers, and John O'Korn hopes to rise to the occasion by leading Michigan to back-to-back wins against the Spartans for the first time since 2006-07.
Though an uptick in form — including wins against high-flying Leicester City and the slightly more grounded Manchester United — has eased those concerns, Barnfield is a reminder that, should Burnley, a club with one of the lowest budgets in the division, ever succumb to economic reality, it will have something beyond happy memories to show for its spell in the Premier League.
Home wins against Chelsea and Liverpool were as big in 2013 as they would be today.) On the more positive side, March 2013 was when I got asked to write VICE (magazine)'s video games column, in the UK. I'd been doing bits and pieces for a few publications, most significantly Edge, but this was something else, a regular gig.
There will be no shortage of sparks in Group D where a strong England side have been paired with Scotland, Argentina and 2011 champions Japan, while European champions Netherlands take on Canada, Cameroon and New Zealand in Group E. The Dutch slipped up in qualifying and needed playoff wins against Denmark and Switzerland to book their berth, but their potent attack will be keen to impress an army of traveling fans.
While the defense has struggled some to stop the run, it has been tremendous against the pass, allowing an average of 03 yards a game through the air and an opposing quarterback rating of 75.6, which is the fourth lowest mark in the N.F.L. They are a top-six team in both interceptions and sacks, and their average of 19.4 points allowed a game is good but also inflated by a pair of high-scoring wins against San Francisco and Dallas.
From there, the math builds on itself: More home games equals more wins; being in a conference with more teams playing more home games equals more games against teams that have won more games; more wins against more teams that have won more games equals a higher R.P.I. Near the end of his tenure on the committee, Fullerton said, a relatively new member attempted to bolster a team's case by saying it played in a tough conference, only to be shot down by more experienced colleagues.

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