Atlantic 10âs Resurgence Starts With Scheduling
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With four teams in the top 25 in simulations of college basketballâs ratings percentage index, Atlantic 10 athletic directors and coaches do not have to fight so hard for respect this season.
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If the playoffs opened right now, instead of next month, the A&#39;s would face the Red Sox in the first round -- again. Boston bounced Oakland out of the postseason in five games last year, coming back from a 2-0 deficit to do so.
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While the focus of college basketball this season has been on the power surge at the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference among North Carolina, Duke, and Wake Forest, on the quick start of No. 1 Illinois, on the goings-on at such traditional basketball hotbeds as Kansas and Kentucky, the Pac-10 has quietly produced its own marquee teams, who last ...
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In their first year in the ACC, No. 10 Virginia Tech at No. 9 Miami (8-2) will be playing for at least a share of the conference title and the BCS berth that goes along with it.
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They're visiting the defending Division 1-AA national champions, the top-ranked team in both preseason polls, in a venue that is one of the most difficult for visiting teams. They're trying to turn around what was once one of the best 1-AA programs in New England but has had six losing seasons in seven years.
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Hurricane forecasters are calling for an above-average Atlantic hurricane season again next year after one of the most destructive seasons on record.
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The No. 10 Hokies completed their inaugural season in the Atlantic Coast Conference with the league's outright championship.
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The Boston College men's soccer team began its Atlantic Coast Conference play last Saturday with a 2-0 win over Maryland, then ranked seventh in the country. To say that it was payback is putting it mildly.
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They won their first Atlantic Coast Conference title in 36 years last season. They are returning eight starters on offense, including the ACC Rookie of the Year at quarterback. They are returning five defensive starters and have enough talent to make things uncomfortable for a lot of teams, including Boston College, who will be their season-opening opponent Saturday. They have ...
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At the end of last year, the Atlantic Coast Conference went into its offseason mode feeling reasonably good about itself in football. All 12 coaches were returning; Virginia Tech, Miami, and Florida State seemed ready to extend their leases in the neighborhood of top 10 teams; Clemson was making noises that it was ready to jump to another level; and ...
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The start of last season seems eons ago now. Northeastern, which got off to an 0-11 start last season and didn't win until December, beat No. 10 Maine, 4-2, last night at Matthews Arena in its first Hockey East game of the season.
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In an attempt to maximize its greatest asset, Fenway Park, the Red Sox have expressed an interest in bringing the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament to Boston, possibly as early as 2007, after the expiration of the ACC's two-year contract with a host site in Jacksonville, Fla.
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With Appalachian Stateâs victory at fifth-ranked Michigan, the N.C.A.A.âs top teams will probably be more selective in scheduling early games.
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They looked surprisingly strong against nonconference foes, but last night when the University of Massachusetts Minutemen opened Atlantic 10 play, they seemed, paradoxically, out of their league.
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They have had a week off to contemplate their new status, that of a team with a blemish on its record. For the Boston College men's basketball team, that is heady stuff indeed as the Eagles resume play tonight at Conte Forum against Rutgers a week after their quest for a perfect season ended with a 68-65 loss at Notre ...
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MIAMI - Friday may mark No. 5 Miamiâs entrance into the Atlantic Coast Conference. However, you can forgive the Hurricanes if the game has a familiar feel to it.
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The University of North Carolina Tar Heels are expected to open the season ranked among the top teams in the country, in part because of Tyler Hansbroughâs decision to return.