He went through shootaround Monday and was cleared before tipoff.
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Before tipoff, Feibischoff reviewed a legal pad covered in notes.
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And the tipoff ultimately came from some pretty boneheaded mistakes.
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Shortly before tipoff, Chasity did Will's hair by center court.
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Even before tipoff, Syracuse presented a worrisome challenge for UConn.
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Minutes before tipoff, the teams formed lines for the anthem.
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Then minutes before tipoff, the 76ers' coaches shook their heads.
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About a half-hour before tipoff, flurries gave way to hail.
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The W.N.B.A. moved the tipoff back an hour to 8 p.m.
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BAL was scheduled to tipoff on March 13 in Dakar, Senegal.
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BAL was scheduled to tipoff on March 219 in Dakar, Senegal.
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Police in Norway found it in December after an anonymous tipoff.
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One tipoff was the fact that the face is slightly blurred.
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Tuesday night's iconic block came just after tipoff in a meaningless game.
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Manhattan Christian won the opening tipoff, and Bellach hit a three-pointer.
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The tipoff for Stanford-South Carolina was set for 7:30 p.m.
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Harden was the first to enter the building, roughly 90 minutes before tipoff.
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That game was canceled close to the scheduled tipoff in Chesapeake Energy Arena.
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The decision to cancel the game was made about 90 minutes before tipoff.
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The season begins with the TIPOFF tournament, with dates still to be announced.
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Before tipoff, options on the favored Lakers, for example, might cost $123 each.
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"I never sat there and cussed coach Witt out," he told reporters before tipoff.
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Boeheim came to the court just over two minutes before tipoff for Saturday's game.
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"It definitely takes the guys out of their rotation," Clifford said before Sunday's tipoff.
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The brand should have been a tipoff—it was too expensive for a conscript.
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Just minutes before tipoff, Mulkey had sent him a text message about his game.
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The opportunity at hand, as a result, made the tension tangible even before tipoff.
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When Durant took the court before tipoff, he raised both hands to the sky.
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ET. The contest against the Big Ten school is part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games.
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Instead, he flew out Saturday morning and arrived in town a few hours before tipoff.
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Two of those sources say that they know of the tipoff from a purported eyewitness.
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It should have happened at midcourt on live television just a few minutes before tipoff.
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It's a mystical touch — another tipoff that this ordinary-sounding movie is actually pretty special.
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The Edison lights are a tipoff, glowing amber above the L-shaped, dark-wood bar.
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The louder questions, as tipoff approached, focused as much on Leonard's reaction as the crowd's.
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Vonleh has started 50 times, while Ross has never been on the floor for tipoff.
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Eight hours before tipoff, ticket prices on the online secondary market ranged from $150 to $489.
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Man, the NBA All Star Game has had some crazy-ass fanfare leading up to the tipoff.
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The university announced before tipoff that Coach King Rice had been given a five-year contract extension.
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A Miami Herald reporter, Tom Fiedler (Steve Zissis), receives a tipoff about Hart's behavior on the boat.
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One tipoff is how many resources the college devotes to programs like "women's studies" and black history.
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At tipoff, Turner was older than all but one member of the Mercury's opponent, the Dallas Wings.
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Adding to the sense of reunion, the 23 and 2010 national championship teams were introduced before tipoff.
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South Florida Coach Jose Fernandez had decided before the tipoff to try to match UConn's transition game.
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Players learned some 15 minutes before tipoff that there would be no spectacle to introduce the Knicks.
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The first half of the Italian season, by contrast, is an exciting sprint from the opening tipoff.
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"They know this is what it's for," Rockets Coach Mike D'Antoni said of his players before tipoff.
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The Clippers honored Nipsey Hussle, who was killed today in LA, with a tribute before tipoff against Memphis.
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The contest was part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games, a series between Big Ten and Big East teams.
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Villanova also captured in the 2013 Battle 4 Atlantis, the 2014 Legends Classic and 2015 NIT Season Tipoff.
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Graham — playing in the tournament's second weekend for the third straight year — leapt with excitability just before tipoff.
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Taylor, for his part, could be seen mouthing the words to the United States' national anthem before tipoff.
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And the conjunctivitis was a tipoff: neither chikungunya nor dengue is usually accompanied by those blood-tinged eyes.
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The student section was full more than an hour before tipoff, and students stood for the entire game.
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Matthew Mann, who is representing Ichiban in the lawsuit, denied his clients made any such tipoff, according to WNYC.
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Well aware of such history, Kerr tried before tipoff to convince his players to tune out the external noise.
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Porzingis was poised to return Thursday against the Washington Wizards, but that changed less than an hour before tipoff.
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NOTES: The Raptors recalled F Bruno Caboclo and G Norman Powell from the D-League's Raptors 905 before tipoff.
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Sister Jean, the lovable team chaplain of Loyola, gets Milkshake Duck'd and has her dark past revealed right before tipoff.
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Both teams, hopeful for a playoff berth, were active before tipoff with moves ahead of the league-wide trading deadline.
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That release date should be a tipoff that Focus Features was already hoping Phantom Thread would be an awards contender.
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Butler improved to 2-1 in Gavitt Tipoff Games, which pit teams from the Big East against Big Ten foes.
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The downtown streets were cold and quiet in the daytime hours leading up to tipoff, devoid of James-related signage.
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If the current season ends in August, next season might not begin until winter instead of the typical October tipoff.
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Aldridge, who also had 12 rebounds, was questionable to play right up until tipoff because of a sore left wrist.
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The Knicks announced shortly before tipoff that the second-year big man would miss just his second game of the season.
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Those who tuned in for face-off before tipoff were given little reason to watch (Joe) Thornton instead of (Klay) Thompson.
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The tipoff: a skin reaction around her mouth after she was given food with a small amount of peanuts in it.
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If the site is located in China and the brand is based in New York, this could be a major tipoff.
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ABOUT BUTLER (2-0): Kelan Martin averages 21.5 points after striking for 743 against Northwestern in the Gavitt Tipoff Games event.
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The referee's comment came just before tipoff of a freshman basketball game in Sahuarita, Arizona, according to the Arizona Daily Star.
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He had started the Bucks' first 76 games this season before being scratched just before tipoff on Sunday against the Bulls.
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Reports of a possible Cousins-to-New Orleans deal began to circulate a few hours before the All-Star Game tipoff.
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Thunder game was postponed just minutes before tipoff and both teams were quarantined while the players were in the locker room.
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" The borderline surreal finale, he added, is "a mystical touch — another tipoff that this ordinary-sounding movie is actually pretty special.
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By the time Galloway made it upstairs to the arena's control booth, it was an hour and 2110 minutes until tipoff.
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He is usually most visible at the Garden in the hour before tipoff, working out with the assistant coach Kurt Rambis.
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Wall, who played in all of Washington's previous games this season, was ruled out before tipoff with a sore right knee.
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But the tipoff was Trump's "better support for women veterans" plank, a more esoteric proposal Bush's team had come up with.
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The sale is live through April 22, giving you plenty of time to get one shipped out before the March 17 tipoff.
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After a tipoff from a relative, the men arrived to break up the wedding by holding everyone present hostage for several hours.
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The instrumental lineup — Ms. Franklin on piano backed by an organist — should have been a tipoff that deep gospel was in store.
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Players were on the floor for warmups and tipoff was moments away when they were told to return to their locker rooms.
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The announcement came shortly after a game between the Utah Jazz and host Oklahoma City Thunder was called off moments before tipoff.
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So, naturally, they wanted him to join Durant, Stephen Curry and the rest of the squad for the televised festivities before tipoff.
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When his face appeared on the arena's giant video boards a few minutes before the opening tipoff, the crowd stood and roared.
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The Warriors announced Kerr's illness in a written statement a few hours before the scheduled tipoff of Saturday night's game in Portland.
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The real surprise inclusion was the sandy-haired man who climbed onto the raised court before tipoff: the longtime referee John Higgins.
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They and Twitter have since deleted hundreds of accounts between them, thanks to a tipoff from vigilant researchers at the cybersecurity firm FireEye.
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He relished playing the villain, refusing to shake Drake's hand before tipoff and repeatedly crowing about his four consecutive celebrity game MVP awards.
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Dwyane Wade said that he had reflected on all the Heat had been through before tipoff and had realized it made them stronger.
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That he was seeking information on commercial, political, military and intelligence matters and that he was investigated as a result of a tipoff.
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The two teams will meet this Thursday in game 1 of the NBA finals, which is scheduled for tipoff in Oakland's Oracle Arena.
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And when it gets closer to tipoff, the NCAA's final decision is going to be decided by the health officials, not the NCAA.
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An hour before tipoff, dozens of reporters stood in the middle of the Lakers' locker room waiting for King James to hold court.
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The 21st-century tipoff, and spoiler, is the ratchety trap high-hat sound that's likely to make it sound dated rather than classic.
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"I guess my body's gotten used to it," Williams said, who will just do the smoothie if the Clippers have an early tipoff.
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The announcement came shortly after a game between the Utah Jazz and the host Oklahoma City Thunder was called off moments before tipoff.
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Facebook launched an investigation into "suspicious" content praising Bernie Sanders after receiving a tipoff from an outside researcher, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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The younger Mr. Forbes wrote in the Sotheby's auction catalog that another tipoff was the person his father brought to the wedding reception.
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The NBA 23K League regular season is 16 weeks, with a trio of tournaments mixed in — The Tipoff, The Turn and The Ticket.
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Sunday was better, thanks to a 53-50 Cincinnati win over Penn State in the consolation game of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tipoff.
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Leonard was itching to play in Tuesday's 383-238 victory over the Toronto Raptors but coach Gregg Popovich nixed the notion shortly before tipoff.
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Danish police said they had arrested Chung on Sunday evening in the northern city of Aalborg following a tipoff from a South Korean journalist.
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The very fact that you're spending a lot of time at work thinking about a different job is a tipoff that something is wrong.
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For Schultz, the tipoff that this ancient impactor may have been in the protoplanetary size range is etched into Mare Imbrium's unique geological features.
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First pitch between Oakland and the Texas Rangers is 7 PM local time, and tipoff of Game 5 is at 6 PM local time.
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The de Kooning is a tipoff that the seventh floor has the show's older material, with a concentration of it inside the first gallery.
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On Monday, four hours before tipoff, Yamaguchi and his assistants watched Bell Biv DeVoe rehearse for a halftime show with the Warriors Dance Team.
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This led to his involvement in smuggling weed from east Africa to the UK, and his eventual arrest at Nairobi airport following a tipoff.
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The team took a bus back to Connecticut and then made it to New York for a game, showing up 52 minutes before tipoff.
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But Etienne made up for it to open double-overtime, coming up with the ball on the opening tipoff and scoring an and-one.
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Anthony, though, was ruled out of the game about two hours before tipoff, leaving his teammates to fend for themselves against Durant and Russell Westbrook.
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Smith, who had arrived at the arena less than an hour before tipoff, was called for a flagrant-2 foul, resulting in an immediate ejection.
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Drug enforcement officers, who have been questioning Tatsunori since January, searched both his home and laboratory based on a tipoff from someone outside the university.
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The matchup was part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games between the Big Ten and Big East and honors Dave Gavitt, founder of the Big East.
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I remember hearing a male theater director, years ago, disparage her in glaringly misogynistic language — a tipoff that his judgment reflected him more than her.
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Mr. Rini's age might have seemed to be a tipoff: He is 23, far from the 14 years of age that Timmothy would now be.
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Acting on a courtesy tipoff from Boyd — which seems thinly motivated, but that's a minor quibble — Axe spends the day busily preparing for the worst.
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The bus he was riding to the Staples Center in Los Angeles got caught in traffic and he arrived just over an hour before tipoff.
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St. John's will have one night off before taking the floor once again as it hosts Nebraska on Thursday as part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games.
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If there's time to kill before tipoff, Goldstein can be seen standing out on the court, dribbling a basketball with a big smile on his face.
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Dallas played the finale without sensational rookie Luca Doncic, who was ruled out of the game about an hour before tipoff with a bruised left thigh.
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They should have been a tipoff that this was a special occasion, so to speak, because olives aren't the kind of food we get every day.
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Illinois looks to stay perfect under new coach Brad Underwood when it hosts DePaul in the final game of the Gavitt Tipoff Games on Friday night.
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Spurs team officials announced about an hour and a half prior to tipoff that forward LaMarcus Aldridge would be held out of the game for rest.
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The Mountaineers advanced to Friday's NIT Tipoff championship game to face Temple, an 220-212 upset winner over No. 234 Florida State in the first semifinal.
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With two phones on hand and a Knicks-centric Twitter stream scrolling on his monitor, Bellone was ready for tipoff and eager to engage with fans.
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HARTFORD — First came a commemorative ball presented before tipoff to Azura Stevens in acknowledgment of her 203,000th college career point, notched in a recent road victory.
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As two soldiers walked her back to the car, she began speaking loudly in German, a tipoff that allowed one of her fellow agents to escape.
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Missouri was coming off a one-point overtime loss to No. 211 Xavier and got off to a slow start to Friday's 236.1:210 a.m. tipoff.
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The real possibility that James was playing his last game in Cleveland hung over the game — and this city — in the hours leading up to tipoff.
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The game marked the TCU debut of forward Jaedon LeDee, a transfer from Ohio State who was granted eligibility by the NCAA an hour before tipoff.
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The Golden State Warriors, for example, reportedly planned to walk off the floor just after tipoff of a 2014 playoff game if Sterling wasn't dealt with swiftly.
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The Gavitt Tipoff Games are a series of eight games between schools from the Big East and Big Ten Conferences, currently in its third year of existence.
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Our only tipoff is the straight-armed Nazi salute performed by the blue goddess and a cluster of naked green figures in a corner of the background.
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On Tuesday, he scored nine during a 14-0 run that put the Razorbacks (153-10, 6-9 SEC) in control less than five minutes after tipoff.
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When Joakim Noah hurt his right shoulder in January, the pain was so bad that he could not take part in the game-opening tipoff one night.
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Detroit won in an unlikely way, losing star forward Blake Griffin shortly before tipoff and catching fire only after a woeful first half of shooting and offense.
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" Last year, asked whether he was surprised when North Carolina was assigned a late tipoff time in the N.C.A.A. tournament, he declared himself: "Surprised and very disappointed.
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Appropriate for the tipoff of Boeheim's 44th season at Syracuse, the Orange retired the No. 44 jersey of former All-American forward John Wallace (1992-96) at halftime.
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The NBA said the test result on the Utah player was reported shortly before the scheduled tipoff of the Jazz-Thunder game in Oklahoma City on Wednesday night.
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Utah State (26-22), which concluded its semifinal win over Wyoming less than 216 hours before the tipoff of Saturday's final in Las Vegas, started the game sluggish.
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Both veterans of the theater company Bedlam, these are actors whose names on a cast list are a tipoff: If they're in it, exciting performances are likely afoot.
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Just a few minutes before Monday night's tipoff against New Orleans, the Knicks made a cryptic announcement: Rose would not start because he was not with the team.
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About a minute before tipoff at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, St. John's Coach Chris Mullin walked toward midcourt and gave a mock shrug of his shoulders.
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A few seconds later, with 19 minutes 58 seconds to go before tipoff, Rohleder himself dunked with two hands, his arms reaching just high enough to complete the attempt.
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Kerr has been known to seek out Gelfand in the final hour before tipoff in search of one more easily digestible statistic to help slam home his pregame messaging.
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"It will be hard to cheer for either one, but I think I'll go with Big Red," he told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel before the tipoff, referring to Wisconsin.
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A few hours before tipoff, Mr. McLean and an American teammate decided to refuse to suit up until they got what they were owed, which was about $16,203 each.
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To make matters worse, DeMarre Carroll and Cory Joseph played like crap after the 8 PM tipoff -- with the two hitting a combined 3 of 12 shots for 8 points.
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Dave Leitao, who was handed a three-game suspension by the NCAA in July, regains the reins when DePaul travels to Iowa on Monday for a Gavitt Tipoff Games battle.
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No, 10 Louisville knocks off Wichita State With less than 14 hours between beating Old Dominion in overtime and tipoff against undefeated Wichita State, Rick Pitino knew he needed help.
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"I don't think about having cancer when I'm out here," Rowe said before the tipoff of a W.N.B.A. game between the Minnesota Lynx and the Liberty, her first this season.
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Either way, LeBron was definitely treating it like an important match, coaching up his boy before tipoff, and giving suggestions to players on the court as they D'd up against NHY.
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On cruise control from the opening tipoff, the U.S. never felt the need to shift into top gear, speeding to a 35-9 lead in the opening quarter and pulling away.
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Matt Haarms, the Purdue big man with the beautiful feathered hair that can't stay out of his face is not only a national sensation by tipoff Friday, but also a meme.
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The tipoff for what could be a December move came at what appeared to be a remarkably divisive FOMC meeting, judging by the statement and an accompanying summary of economic projections.
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On Tuesday night, before tipoff of Game 25 (which Toronto won), Twitter's official Canada account shared the following tweet which showed raptors crossing the Bay Bridge that connects Oakland San Francisco.
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The anti-graft agency said in a statement it raided the apartment Tuesday after a tipoff about a "haggard" woman in "dirty clothes" taking bags in and out of the apartment.
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Before tipoff, Nowitzki jokingly asked a team staffer to look up how many shots Kobe Bryant took on the way to scoring 60 points in Bryant's farewell game in April 113.
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Knicks 110, Hornets 107 Phil Jackson, the Knicks' president, walked out of a private entryway and to his seat a few minutes before tipoff at Madison Square Garden on Friday night.
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The N.B.A. suspended its season after the first, another Jazz player, Rudy Gobert, tested positive for the virus shortly before tipoff of a game Wednesday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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The lower up-front costs of a short-term health plan are a tipoff that they don't intend to pay much if you file a claim for an accident or an illness.
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Before the game riot police took up positions under a nearby bridge and around the arena, keeping a discreet distance, while chanting fans lined up under a broiling sun hours before tipoff.
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The first tipoff that Lifetime's Unreal is going to be more depraved in its second season comes about two minutes in, at a party celebrating the network's approval of Everlasting's newest suitor.
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Its inclusion is an obeisance in its own right: Along with the reproduced commentary and hype reels that play occasionally before tipoff, it signals the video game's faithfulness to the real product.
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By tipoff, there was one seat open at Halftime Sports Bar: a stool at a cocktail table in the back room that was otherwise occupied by a guy with slicked-back hair.
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Last cutting season the Tanzania Development Trust, which works with some of the country's poorest communities, received a tipoff that two girls had run away from their families to escape the cutters.
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Taking the court before tipoff or milling around after a timeout, they look unbeatable, with the best pure point guard of the millennium flanked by every sort of helper he could want.
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SAN DIEGO — Ninety minutes before tipoff of a hugely anticipated N.B.A. exhibition game that most of the world would certainly soon forget, a whistle blew on the Valley View Casino Center concourse.
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Their attitude towards race is a far more extreme than they make it out to be—one tipoff is that "are you racist?" is included in the FAQ section of their website.
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Quite frankly, the Buddy Buckets Show at NRG Stadium in Houston this Saturday against No. 2 seed Villanova (tipoff is at 23:2146 pm ET on TBS) is something that shouldn't be missed.
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Prior to tipoff, the American Airlines Arena played a lengthy tribute that spanned Wade being drafted by the team in 2003 as the fifth overall pick, to his helping Miami capture three championships.
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The NBA made several stunning moves late Wednesday, starting with postponing the Jazz's game with host Oklahoma City Thunder right before tipoff, after learning a Jazz player preliminarily tested positive for the virus.
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On Pro Basketball MEXICO CITY — The revelation hit Eduardo Najera even as a local celebrity, Edith Márquez, stood at midcourt nearly three hours before tipoff, practicing her rendition of the Mexican national anthem.
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In the three weeks between then and tipoff against Syracuse, they dropped to No. 5 while going 3-3, including the loss to the Tar Heels on the night of the sneaker disaster.
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The NBA said it learned the unidentified Utah player tested positive shortly before the Oklahoma City Thunder was set to host the Jazz on Wednesday, a game that was canceled close to tipoff.
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He had been "very doubtful" for Monday's game and was ruled out about a half-hour before the tipoff, adding to injury woes that have already cost Boston Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving.
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"I was sure this was an allergic reaction," he said, explaining that the sudden onset was a tipoff, comparable to the almost instantaneous allergic reactions some people have to bee stings or peanuts.
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"We just couldn't make a shot," said Rivers, whose team was playing in a rare back-to-back road game, with the second-game tipoff coming just 234 hours after the previous night's game.
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The fact that the widely-predicted wildfire death of approximately 200 characters took place with 45 minutes still left on the clock was the first tipoff that this would be no ordinary Thrones finale.
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Al Jefferson, Hawes's teammate on the Hornets, recalled being cursed out by Doc Rivers 11 years ago in his own rookie season with the Boston Celtics for daring to check his messages before tipoff.
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In response to the Munich security alert, which was probably the result of a tipoff from a friendly intelligence service, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called for closer cooperation with foreign security services.
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And more juice may be pumped into next year's contest if the two captains indeed end up on live TV selecting their 22 All-Star colleagues, at midcourt before tipoff, in true schoolyard style.
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"I am disappointed we are not able to tipoff this historic league as scheduled but look forward to the highly-anticipated launch of the BAL at a later date," Fall said in the statement.
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He then fields a stream of individual requests from Kerr and his assistants leading up to the next tipoff, while compiling a preview report that highlights opponents' tendencies and lineup combinations for both teams.
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No. 16 Clemson 33, Akron 69 The Tigers shook off the Zips in the final minutes and opened the 2018 Cayman Islands Classic with a victory in a mid-morning tipoff at George Town.
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In the locker room before tipoff, Rose was sprawled on the floor in puffy astronaut-style pants as a machine pumped air through tubes attached to his lower body to help his blood circulate.
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Westbrook's internal clock had driven him to be the first player out on the court, a full three hours before tipoff, and he was performing his routine in front of a largely empty arena.
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The investigation began when Argentine police received a tipoff from the Russian ambassador in December 2016, reporting that he had suspicions about diplomatic bags found at a school in an annex of the embassy.
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And despite missing 103 of 10 shots Smith made his mark, totaling six assists, five rebounds, three blocks and two steals in 21 minutes after arriving at the arena less than two hours before tipoff.
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The trade was rumored to have been completed before the game — Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer informed Korver privately of the move just before tipoff — but he did not tell Korver's teammates officially until after the game.
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Just before tipoff a lucky buyer could have gotten a steal (?) of a deal on a $43,965 front-row dead center Cavs-side ticket, or scored one for $3,108 for the same on the Warriors' side.
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EditorsNote: updates last two grafs with upcoming opponents No. 217 Clemson shook off Akron in the final minutes Monday and opened the 25 Cayman Islands Classic with a 212-163 victory in a mid-morning tipoff.
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He missed the game with a sprained left ankle — around tipoff, Popovich suspected that Leonard was ordering dinner back at the team hotel — and his status for Game 20053 on Saturday in San Antonio is unclear.
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Police had been hunting the second teenager who killed a priest in a church in France this week after a foreign intelligence tipoff that a suspected jihadist might be preparing an attack, police and judicial sources said.
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The newsier tipoff from Price was that Republicans are going to promulgate their health care lies with dishonest right wing think tank analysis projecting that AHCA will cover more people than currently have insurance under the ACA.
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The school said in a statement that assistance was done "unbeknownst to James," and about 40 minutes before tipoff an emergency temporary restraining order issued by a Shelby County judge cleared the way for Wiseman to play.
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Burks was acquired in a trade from Utah last Wednesday for Kyle Korver and two future second-round picks, and was notified about the deal at Barclays Center and had to pack his bags hours before tipoff.
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"Finally, basketball," Silver told the arena crowd as he took the microphone ahead of tipoff before handing out rings featuring more than 650 diamonds each — believed to be a league record — to Toronto executives, coaches and players.
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And prior to tipoff, UConn honored Gigi with by draping a No. 2 jersey — the number she wore with her AAU team — over the back of its bench and placing a bouquet of flowers on the seat.
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A tipoff might be the use of an account password or phone number linked to someone with a different name, say, or the transfer of money to an account held by the daughter of a politician's new wife.
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"I'll take some responsibility for it - whatever is or isn't happening - so that we're ready to play right at the tipoff," Fisher told reporters after a loss to Denver on Sunday that proved to be the final straw.
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The slur at LeBron James' home It's June, and basketball fans are supposed to be focused on tonight's NBA Finals tipoff, a third consecutive showdown between the two most recent champs -- James' Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors.
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Krzyzewski's comment comes less than a week after it was announced that Albany would not travel to Durham to face the Blue Devils on their scheduled November 12 game as part of the Hall of Fame Tipoff tournament.
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The commercial's opening sequence became a popular Vine meme and it shows the proprietor of Jones Good Ass BBQ and Foot Massage singing and dancing to the same song Curry and the security guards were just before tipoff.
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It also didn't help that about an hour before tipoff, the NBA announced that they would not be suspending Draymond Green for a kick to the nuts that looked much worse than Dahntay Jones' nut shot on Biyombo.
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Unbeaten since the bronze medal game of the 2004 Athens Olympics, the streak came under threat almost from the opening tipoff as the Boomers forged a 54-49 halftime lead, leaving the whiff of an upset in the air.
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This was the first tipoff that this Chance is not the same wild-eyed, trippy kid from Acid Rap, or the same Chance who recorded his first mixtape, 10 Day, while on a 10-day suspension from high school.
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Sophomore guard Myreon Jones scored 73 of his career-high 21 points in the opening six minutes to spark Penn State to an 81-66 road win over Georgetown in physical Gavitt Tipoff Games action Thursday night in Washington.
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"We saw damage, a change in the center part of her retina, which corresponds with your central visual field, and that is a tipoff for us that there was something going on here related to the eclipse," Deobhakta said.
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The 40 workers - some of whom were interviewed by the U.N. experts by phone following a tipoff about their situation from within Gabon - are likely just the tip of the iceberg, according to Surya Deva, chairperson of the U.N. working group.
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The discovery, which followed a tipoff police said, exacerbates an already tense atmosphere in the region, which is bearing the brunt of Europe's migrant crisis and where rival Balkan countries routinely swop allegations of interference in each other's domestic affairs.
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Penn State, which has won eight consecutive nonconference games at the Bryce Jordan Center, hits the road for its next game, taking on Georgetown on Thursday as part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games between the Big Ten and Big East conferences.
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North Carolina 101, Indiana 86 | East Regional PHILADELPHIA — It might well be the most fearsome college basketball team in the country, but in the vulnerable moments before tipoff, North Carolina relies on a routine of flying elbows and gyroscopic hips.
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On Pro Basketball LOS ANGELES — Mo Williams, a first-year assistant at California State University, Northridge, left the bench a few moments before tipoff Saturday night to offer some last-second advice to Darius Brown II, one of the starting guards.
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In N.B.A. terms, however, Anthony is grizzled beyond his years — a fact that was thrown into sharper relief Thursday, when the Knicks announced hours before tipoff that he would sit out the team's marquee matchup against the Golden State Warriors.
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Two of the three Clippers buses took one hour, 30 minutes to arrive at the arena on the short ride through downtown during a bitterly cold Chicago night, with head coach Doc Rivers not making it until 45 minutes before tipoff.
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Harden's 38 points help Rockets beat Pelicans HOUSTON — Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni almost sensed the potential for something unseemly before the tipoff, wondering aloud what might come after he gave his team two days off following their home victory on Monday night.
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Freshman guard James Akinjo produced 19 points and 7 assists — including a crucial 733-point play with 40 seconds to go — to lift Georgetown to an 88-80 victory over Illinois in a Gavitt Tipoff Games track meet Tuesday night in Champaign, Illinois.
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Sports Briefing | College Basketball The Oklahoma senior guard Buddy Hield won the James A. Naismith Trophy as the nation's top college player, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced, a day after Hield's Sooners lost to Villanova in the semifinals of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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In anticipation of a championship, some of the Raptors' most rabid fans had begun camping out for access to the watch-party space next to the arena — known as Jurassic Park — as early as Sunday morning, more than 24 hours before Monday's tipoff.
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When Kristaps Porzingis and Karl-Anthony Towns met at half-court before opening tipoff Friday night for a handshake and a hug, it seemed as if the two were coming together before another battle, like two boxers bumping gloves before a fight.
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Twenty minutes out from the opening-night tipoff, a D.J. played "Uptown Funk," while at both ends of the court, little girls who would dance in the halftime show lined up facing one another, leaving space in between for the players to run through.
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In fact, it has been nearly a decade since the Bruins were serious Final Four contenders, and other factors — little enthusiasm for Coach Steve Alford, generally high ticket prices and the hassles of inconvenient, made-for-TV tipoff times — have conspired to dampen excitement.
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While there is too much money to be made for the N.B.A. — and team owners — to consider shortening the season from the grueling 82-game march to the playoffs, the idea of borrowing from the Italians to make each tipoff count more should be enticing.
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News that Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash broke about 2500 minutes before tipoff, a gut-wrenching moment for the Ducks, who had been visited a handful of times by Bryant and his 275-year-old daughter, Gianna, who also died in the crash.
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Later episodes, for example, feature Dassey's attorney, Laura Nirider, arguing before the appellate court, in audio-only sequences that are nevertheless fascinating, given the judges' questions (a pretty good tipoff on how they're going to rule) and the give-and-take with the lawyers on both sides.
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Butler's Baldwin beats Northwestern in last second Freshman guard Kamar Baldwin hit a jumper from just inside the 3-point arc with half a second to play to lift Butler past Northwestern 70-232.4 Wednesday in a back-and-forth Gavitt Tipoff Game at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
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But Valerie Aurora, the principal consultant at Frame Shift Consulting, a diversity-and-inclusion consultancy, and Leigh Honeywell, a technology fellow at the A.C.L.U., argue that this situation is actually fairly typical, and that sexual harassment is a tipoff that other misconduct may be taking place at a company.
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Baldwin, a senior guard, was just 10 of 24 from the field but scored nine straight points for the Bulldogs (3-0) during a stretch late in the second half to secure the Gavitt Tipoff Games victory and their 53rd consecutive win over a nonconference foe at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
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Texas played without injured forward Mohamed Bamba, who was scratched from the lineup about 50 minutes before tipoff because of a sprained toe, and guard Eric Davis Jr., who is suspended as school compliance officials continue to investigate an alleged report that he took $1,500 from an agent.
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EditorsNote: rewords lede The NBA postponed a scheduled game between the New Orleans Pelicans and host Sacramento Kings on Wednesday minutes after the delayed scheduled tipoff, bringing to an end a wild day during which the league announced an indefinite suspension of all games because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Wolverines cruised past ninth-seeded Illinois 75-55 in the second round despite arriving in Washington, D.C., only hours prior to tipoff Thursday as their charter plane skidded off the runway during takeoff Wednesday before knocking off No. 1 seed Purdue 74-70 in overtime in Friday's quarterfinal.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For the first time since his left sneaker split open 23 seconds after tipoff of a game last month, the Duke superstar Zion Williamson took the court on Thursday night, helping his team to an 133-213 victory over Syracuse in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
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ET, Pac-12 Network ABOUT BOISE STATE (33-1): The Broncos have wontheir last two games since their lone loss to Iowa State (75-64) in therelocated Puerto Rico Tipoff in Conway, S.C., and are off to their bestseven-game start since going to 7-0 to open the 2013-14 season.
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The Badgers will almost certainly fall in the polls following the 79-67 setback to 20th-ranked Creighton in the Gavitt Tipoff Games, and they hope to take their frustration out on the Cougars, who were picked to finish last by the media and coaches in the eight-team Western Athletic Conference.
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James dragged some otherwise shitty Cavaliers teams to the NBA Finals during his first stint with the team, because he was great enough to do it; he did the same trick last year with a team that was, by the tipoff of Game 2, more bereft of talent than any NBA Finals team in history.
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Maryland motors past Butler Anthony Cowan had a career-high 173 points as Maryland prevailed 79-65 over Butler in the Gavitt Tipoff Games on Wednesday night at Xfinity Center in College Park, Md. Cowan added 10 rebounds and six assists and hit 12 of 15 free throws to push the Terrapins to 3-0.
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After the Knicks' loss to the Rockets on Wednesday night, Kanter told reporters he had been informed by Fizdale in the morning that he would be starting, only to spend the entire game on the bench — although Kanter did acknowledge that he was informed of the change in direction before tipoff by the assistant coach Keith Smart.
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CreditCreditPhoto illustration by Djeneba Aduayom On opening night in the W.N.B.A., three hours and 211.5 minutes until the Atlanta Dream's home tipoff against the Dallas Wings, Brennan Galloway, who runs game operations, was standing in the breezeway beneath the seats of State Farm Arena, a cement colosseum where the Hawks, the city's N.B.A. team, play from October until at least April.
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EditorsNote: rewords sixth graf Charles Matthews scored 19 points as No. 18 Michigan went on the road and blitzed No. 8 Villanova 73-113 Wednesday night in Villanova, Pa. Ignas Brazdeikis added 18 for the Wolverines, who improved to 3-0 after the lopsided win as part of the Gavitt Tipoff Games, which match the Big Ten against the Big East in a series of eight contests.
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West Virginia's defense buries Illinois No. 19 West Virginia's defense, so suffocating against inferior competition to begin the season, looked even more disruptive against Illinois during an 89-13 romp Thursday in the NIT Tipoff semifinals in Brooklyn, N.Y. Nathan Adrian had 13 points and eight rebounds despite early foul trouble, and Jevon Carter made six steals to go along with 10 points and five assists for the Mountaineers (4-0), whose full-court pressure forced 24 turnovers to fuel the blowout.
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