Anisimova was facing the top-seeded Shuai in her maiden semifinal.
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A round earlier, Klizan beat top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria.
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The Flyers will face top-seeded Washington in the first round.
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A little arcane, but TOP SEEDED over CLOUD NINE was interesting.
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Cal will face top-seeded Oregon on Friday in the semifinals.
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The top-seeded team, Villanova, narrowly fell to No. 8 Wisconsin.
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On Friday, the top-seeded Kerber will face Pliskova's twin, Kristyna.
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Brady will play top-seeded Caroline Garcia of France in the semifinals.
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The Flyers will get the top-seeded Capitals in the opening round.
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The Wildcats were the top-seeded team, but Rupp Arena wasn't available.
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Corey Henson led the top-seeded Seahawks (27-225) with 20 points.
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Duke dispatched top-seeded North Carolina in the other semifinal on Friday.
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She fell to top-seeded Justine Henin in the quarterfinals that year.
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The top seeded N.Y.C.F.C. covets a bigger prize than in past years.
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The Bulls advanced to face top-seeded Temple at noon ET Friday.
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The Ducks will play top-seeded Connecticut on Monday in Bridgeport, Conn.
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Top-seeded Valparaiso was facing Green Bay in the league's conference tournament.
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The Jackrabbits (10-2) play at top-seeded North Dakota State next weekend.
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But nonetheless, a win by top-seeded Virginia (53-25) would be different.
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Oregon State advances to Thursday's quarterfinals, where it will play top-seeded Oregon.
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Dominic Thiem was expected to be a challenge for top-seeded Rafael Nadal.
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The Wizards advanced to face top-seeded Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
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Kenin will face the top-seeded Ashleigh Barty in the semifinals on Thursday.
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Gerasimov, ranked 119th in the world, next will oppose top-seeded Daniil Medvedev.
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Only No. 133 Rafael Nadal, the top-seeded player, remains in the draw.
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They will face the top-seeded pair, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova.
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Eastern on CBS), and top-seeded North Carolina faces Kentucky (5:05 p.m.
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Since the tournament expanded in 1985, these top-seeded teams had not lost once.
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The winner advances to face top-seeded Oregon in the quarterfinals on Thursday. 2.
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The top-seeded Bucks lead the best-of-seven series two games to none.
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Top-seeded Simona Halep lost in the first match at Armstrong Stadium on Monday.
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The Ducks will play top-seeded Notre Dame in the regional final on Monday.
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Martic will face top-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in the final.
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Kuznetsova will face top-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland in the Round of 16.
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Providence beat Creighton in OT and then did the same to top-seeded Xavier.
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Tennessee will visit the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens on Saturday in the divisional round.
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On Wednesday top-seeded Spaniard Garbine Muguruza withdrew due to a right arm injury.
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The Nittany Lions play top-seeded Minnesota on Friday in the Big Ten semifinals.
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On Sunday afternoon, Kentucky will play top-seeded North Carolina in the regional final.
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The top-seeded Djokovic will meet second-seeded Gaël Monfils in the championship match.
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But the road ended on Saturday when Northwestern fell to top-seeded Gonzaga 79-73.
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On Thursday, the top-seeded Novak Djokovic plays Alexander Zverev in the French Open's quarterfinals.
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In the fourth game, they were pitted against top-seeded San Jacinto College, from Houston.
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If the season ended today, top-seeded Chicago would open against the Los Angeles Kings.
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Stan Wawrinka upset the top-seeded Novak Djokovic to win the men's U.S. Open final.
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The Mercury, the eighth seed, advanced to the semifinals against the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx.
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Top-seeded Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia defeated Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 7-5, 6-63.
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They will meet top-seeded Louisville — the first matchup between the power programs — on Friday.
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Top-seeded Kansas (20.44 percent on the season) will test that in the first round.
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"Well of course this year has been an emotional year," said the top-seeded Nadal.
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He beat the top-seeded Murray, then had to face Roger Federer in the quarterfinals.
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Karolina Pliskova is making her debut as the top-seeded woman at any Grand Slam.
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Justin Williams scored twice for the top-seeded Capitals to erase a two-goal deficit.
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The underdog Titans toppled the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night (The Associated Press).
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Top-seeded Denver is led in scoring by Henrik Borgstrom, a freshman forward from Finland.
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Clemson will face top-seeded Kansas in the Sweet 16 later this week in Omaha, Neb.
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Top-seeded Kyle Edmund of Great Britain advanced in a walkover past Ilya Ivashka of Belarus.
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"Nobody is invincible," said Djokovic, the top-seeded man at the Australian Open, which begins Monday.
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On the women's side, top-seeded Teliana Pereira lost, 6-3, 63-5, to Petra Martic.
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Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria got past Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 7-6 (3).
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Top-seeded John Isner was among the players who had their matches pushed back to Friday.
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The top-seeded Stars wilted after their fast start and managed only 17 shots on goal.
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"Seeds don't matter," Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said after his team beat the top-seeded Wildcats.
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The Wizards will play the top-seeded Toronto Raptors in the opening round of the postseason.
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Looking further ahead, top-seeded Oregon may also be in danger of suffering a pseudo-upset.
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Mississippi will play the winner of Monday's game between top-seeded Connecticut and ninth-seeded Duquesne.
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Rider (13-19) advanced to face top-seeded Monmouth (25-123) in the quarterfinals on Friday.
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The Crusaders (12-19) upset top-seeded Bucknell on Thursday night, 77-72, in double overtime.
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Denver play the top-seeded Carolina Panthers in this year's Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California.
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Iowa will next play top-seeded Baylor, a 93-68 winner over fourth-seeded South Carolina.
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And in tomorrow's women's final, the top-seeded Simona Halep, faces the second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki.
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On Thursday, top-seeded Oregon draws the winner of Oregon State and Utah in Las Vegas.
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North Carolina is up net, and the top-seeded Tar Heels will have their hands full.
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Berdych beat top-seeded Milos Raonic, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (0003), in the other semifinal.
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They were in top form, having whipped the top-seeded Toronto Raptors in four straight games.
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The top-seeded Capitals got all they could handle from the young, inexperienced Toronto Maple Leafs.
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The fourth-seeded Yellow Jackets advance to a second-round matchup at top-seeded South Carolina.
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Freshman forward Naz Reid led top-seeded LSU (29-206) with 234 points and 210 rebounds.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber made the women's quarterfinals by beating Risa Ozaki, 21-24, 23-2.
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The top-seeded Jayhawks averted that setback, however, and did so without starting center Udoka Azubuike.
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Third-seeded Oklahoma City advances to face the top-seeded Golden State in the Western Conference finals.
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Top-seeded Rafael Nadal of Spain, the defending champion, was scheduled to face Guido Pella of Argentina.
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Her upset victims this week included top-seeded Australian Ashleigh Barty, Czech Karolina Pliskova and Sloane Stephens.
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Capturing the bronze in a hard-fought match against Brazil's top-seeded Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes.
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La La Land's frontrunner status is akin to being the top-seeded team in a sporting event.
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Vekic will face either top-seeded Caroline Garcia of France or Jennifer Brady in the title match.
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The Toronto Raptors are poised to be the top-seeded team behind DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry.
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A loss could drop them to eighth — and an opening-round series against the top-seeded opponent.
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The loss ended top-seeded Villanova's quest to become the first repeat national champion in 10 years.
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It was a crucial Game 21 against LeBron James and the heavily favored, top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers.
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The 39th-ranked Ostapenko, 19, will face top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the second round.
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Brooks led the top-seeded Ducks with 25 points, shooting 4 of 7 from 3-point range.
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But the top-seeded Williams prevailed, outlasting fifth-seeded Simona Halep, 6-2, 4-230, 2365-27.
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Anderson's quarterfinal opponent will be top-seeded Roger Federer, for whom a Wimbledon quarterfinal is no novelty.
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Top-seeded Simona Halep lost in the very first match in the new Armstrong Stadium on Monday.
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The Packers will visit the top-seeded San Francisco 220ers for the National Football Conference (NFC) championship.
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The ninth-seeded Hurricanes (21-183) will play top-seeded North Carolina in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
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It must win, and beating top-seeded Dayton (probably) the next day could lock up a berth.
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It was loud for the entirety of the top-seeded Jayhawks' round-of-16 game against Purdue.
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Senior guard E.C. Matthews had 20 points and eight rebounds for the top-seeded Rams (22-21).
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And in the Metro, the top-seeded Capitals ran into the league's fourth-best team in the Penguins.
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The American athletes beat out Brazil's top-seeded Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes, but not without a fight.
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Juan Martín del Potro and top-seeded Stan Wawrinka advanced to the Swiss Indoors quarterfinals in Basel, Switzerland.
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"He's a big-match player," the top-seeded Djokovic said of the No. 20113-seeded Wawrinka on Friday.
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Senior guard Luke Nelson recorded 14 points and eight rebounds for the top-seeded UC Irvine (21-14).
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Those departures followed those by top-seeded Simona Halep on Monday and second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki on Thursday.
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They combined for 59 points and now get to prepare to take on top seeded Kansas on Saturday.
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On the women's side, top-seeded Simona Halep dispatched Naomi Osaka and will face sixth-seeded Karolina Pliskova.
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They made Alabama a 3½-point favorite over unbeaten and top-seeded Clemson, and Alabama won by 18.
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She could then meet top-seeded Simona Halep, this year's French Open champion, in the round of 16.
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She quickly made the most of the opportunity, beating the top-seeded Aliona Bolsova in the first round.
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Top-seeded Ashleigh Barty leads the top half of the draw, which includes all of the aforementioned players.
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Top-seeded Washington (20133-8) is likely to make the 68-team field as an at-large selection.
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Arkansas escaped, but will have to up its game against (almost certainly) top-seeded North Carolina on Sunday.
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With a loss to Garbiñe Muguruza, top-seeded Angelique Kerber also lost her spot atop the WTA rankings.
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Texas Tech (27-9) will now face top-seeded Villanova (33-4) on Sunday in the regional final.
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The NCAA women's basketball championship concludes when top-seeded Baylor takes on the reigning champions from Notre Dame.
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Top-seeded Kentucky (28-5) will face Arkansas, the No. 653 seed, in the title game on Sunday.
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Clemson's 44-16 victory over top-seeded Alabama gave the Tigers their second national championship in three seasons.
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Agut, the top-seeded Spaniard, downed the second-seeded Troicki, 6-3, 6-4, in 1 hour 22 minutes.
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Italy's Matteo Berrettini rallied to upset top-seeded Karen Khachanov in the second round of the Sofia (Bulgaria) Open.
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Saint Mary's entered the contest off an upset of top-seeded Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference championship game.
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They will face the top seeded New York Red Bulls in a two-legged conference championship in late November.
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The top-seeded Crimson Tide were stunned 80-79 in overtime at home by Norfolk State on Wednesday night.
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The Germans will play top-seeded Sweden in the last eight on Wednesday with Switzerland eliminated from the tournament.
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The Warriors eliminated the top-seeded Rockets in seven games in the Western finals that ended Monday in Houston.
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The top-seeded Williams won the last nine games in a 7-5, 23-0 victory over Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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The girls' final matches Emma Navarro of South Carolina against the top-seeded Leylah Annie Fernandez, 16, of Canada.
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A top-seeded Virginia again going down in an early tournament upset would have shattered brackets across the country.
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As a reward, the Falcons will face top-seeded Philadelphia, vulnerable without the injured star Carson Wentz at quarterback.
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Now, she is a quarterfinalist at the U.S. Open, where she will face top-seeded Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday.
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Williams, then ranked 123st, won that tournament, thrashing the top-seeded Sharapova, 6-1, 6-2, in the final.
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The top-seeded 1723ers never trailed, their defense holding the Vikings to 2172 yards rushing and 221 total yards.
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It did not matter then; they made quick work of the top-seeded Atlanta Hawks in the conference finals.
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Not just the top-seeded Osaka, who made it to the round of 16 before losing in an upset.
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It showed, too, as the top-seeded Osaka played sloppily and carelessly, making 22018 unforced errors to Blinkova's 2018.
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Eighth-seeded NC State (22-10) faces top-seeded and No. 215-ranked Virginia in Thursday afternoon's quarterfinal round.
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On Saturday, the top-seeded Wildcats got their hands on many Creighton passes, forcing a season-high 17 turnovers.
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Other third-round men's winners included top-seeded Stan Wawrinka, David Goffin, Tomas Berdych, Nick Kyrgios and Alexander Zverev.
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The Packers face the top-seeded Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round next Sunday at 4:40 p.m. Eastern.
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Top-seeded Serena advanced to the fourth round with a 6-2 6-1 demolition of Sweden's Johanna Larsson.
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The feelings reached a fever pitch Friday night in the A.C.C. semifinal between Duke and top-seeded North Carolina.
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It showed, too, as the top-seeded Osaka played sloppily and carelessly, making 22018 unforced errors to Blinkova's 2018.
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The top-seeded Isner has played two matches at the tournament thus far, with all six sets going to tiebreakers.
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Top-seeded Kevin Anderson quit his first-round match against 103rd-ranked Austin Krajicek because of an injured right shoulder.
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Spain's Rafael Nadal is the top-seeded player in the tournament, while Germany's Alexander Zverev is the No. 2 seed.
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Not surprisingly, Devils Coach John Hynes made Kinkaid the starter for the first-round series against the top-seeded Lightning.
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Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro or Argentina blitzed Egor Gerasimov of Belarus 6-1, 6-63 in the quarterfinals.
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Arizona (29-4) will play fifth-ranked and top-seeded Oregon in the Pac-33 title game at 11 p.m.
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Medvedev will oppose either top-seeded Novak Djokovic of Serbia or France's Lucas Pouille, who were facing off Friday night.
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Kris Jenkins added 15 points for the top-seeded Wildcats (28-783), who will play Providence in the semifinals Friday.
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In this year's unpredictable round, the early demise of several top-seeded teams threatened to push ticket prices even lower.
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Center Mike Tobey added 18 points and seven rebounds as top-seeded Virginia (29-7) advanced to the regional final.
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The Friars took top-seeded Villanova to overtime in the Big East championship game and beat Xavier twice this season.
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Young, energetic, and clicking on defense, Michigan, the No. 193 seed, will be a favorite to overtake top seeded Xavier.
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The top-seeded Bucks placed seven players in double figures in their fourth straight win after dropping the series opener.
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The most prominent German loss came on the first day of the tournament, when top-seeded Angelique Kerber crashed out.
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Heimlich was the top pitcher during the regular season for the top-seeded Beavers, who have lost just four games.
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Also enjoying a bye will be the top seeded Baltimore Ravens (14-2), who beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-10.
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They will need to beat Michigan on Thursday, then might also need an upset over top-seeded Purdue on Friday.
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Andrey Rublev, 19, is into the quarterfinals of the United States Open, where he will face top-seeded Rafael Nadal.
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But the message resonated with the top-seeded Celtics, whose 104-87 victory at the United Center was sorely needed.
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"Every team has to find their competitive advantage," said Lang, whose team faces top-seeded St. Cloud State on Friday.
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Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is scheduled for Thursday night, also on top-seeded Golden State's home court.
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Virginia (28-20113), the Midwest Region's top-seeded team, meets Iowa State in the Sweet 16 on Friday night in Chicago.
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With a little luck, the Musketeers can do it, but they're still less proven than most of their top-seeded counterparts.
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Other winners in Hua Hin: Viktorija Golubic, Tamara Zidansek, Yafan Wang and fifth-seeded Shuai Zhang and top-seeded Garbine Muguruza.
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The top-seeded Jayhawks established a 20-point lead by dominating the last 10 minutes before halftime and never looked back.
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In his first final since Acapulco in 2016, Tomic will face top-seeded and World No. 13 Fabio Fognini of Italy.
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Top-seeded Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia survived a scare before outlasting Slovenia's Dalila Jakupovic 23-26 (20), 6-2, 6-4.
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Duke, No. 19 in the nation, faces top-seeded Oregon or eighth-seeded St. Joseph's in the Sweet 16 on Thursday.
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So naturally, they've won their first two games of the conference tournament, including knocking off top-seeded Bucknell in double overtime.
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Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece overcame an uneven performance to take down Australian Jordan Thompson 6-3 7-6(4).
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That spring, the top-seeded Bulls were taken to a seventh game by the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals.
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Top seeded Simona Halep and No. 10 seed Sloane Stephens will face off in the 2018 French Open final on Saturday.
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Sylvia Fowles had 18 points and 13 rebounds, and Lindsay Whalen and Moore each scored 18 points for top-seeded Minnesota.
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And yet... Jagr finished with just two assists as the top-seeded Panthers lost in six to the wild-card Islanders.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber was leading Louisa Chirico, 6-2, 3-6, 2-1, before their match was halted by rain.
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Top-seeded Mississippi State (34-1) also got 17 points from Morgan William, who hit several crucial baskets in the game.
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Some members of the Riveters, the defending champions, see the travel problems as a possible advantage against the top-seeded Whitecaps.
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Still one of theseteams will advance, and the reward is a date with top-seeded and No. 1-rankedKansas in Thursday's quarterfinals.
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The winner of this contest will meet top-seeded Oregon in the second round of the West Region in Spokane, Wash. 2.
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The win sends the Badgers (16-9) to the tournament semifinals where they will take on top-seeded Michigan State on Saturday.
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McDonald's quarterfinal foe will be top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, who defeated American Reilly Opelka 6-4, 6-4.
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The top-seeded Blackhawks are in must-win territory when they visit the upstart Nashville Predators in Game 21 on Monday night.
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She followed that up by dispatching top-seeded Angelique Kerber two days later before losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarter-finals.
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The top-seeded Djokovic beat the No. 3 seed, Tomas Berdych, 43-3, 7-6 (3), to reach his 16th consecutive final.
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She will face top-seeded Serena Williams, who beat 35th-ranked Irina-Camelia Begu, 6-4, 6-1, in the other semifinal.
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Willis was even spotted in a courtside seat watching top-seeded Novak Djokovic play Adrian Mannarino a few hours before his match.
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Brook Lopez recorded 19 points, seven rebounds and five blocks and Eric Bledsoe also scored 19 points for the top-seeded Bucks.
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After sweeping top-seeded Chicago, Nashville takes a 33-1 series lead into Friday's Game 5 against the host St. Louis Blues.
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In the semifinals on Friday, Chirico will face 38th-ranked Dominika Cibulkova, who beat top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska in the first round.
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The Pistons' loss sealed their spot as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference, setting up a matchup with top-seeded Cleveland.
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With Opelka eliminated only two of the 11 American who entered the tournament are left — top-seeded Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey.
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The top-seeded Wildcats have won a season-best 10 straight contests following a 79-74 triumph over Alabama in Saturday's semifinals.
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The Kentucky Wildcats took over the top spot after taking down the previously top-seeded Michigan State Spartans in the Champions Classic.
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UCONN 2115, QUINNIPIAC 2110 Napheesa Collier scored 2114 points as top-seeded Connecticut beat its in-state neighbor Quinnipiac in Storrs, Conn.
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She beat the top-seeded Garbiñe Muguruza, who retired in the third set because of cramping in the stiflingly humid summer weather.
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When she faced top-seeded Lindsay Davenport in the first round of the Australian Open after switching, the crowd expressed its displeasure.
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Auger-Aliassime won 7-6 (3), 6-7 (2), 33-6 (2) over Brown, who upset top-seeded Alexander Zverev on Thursday.
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The Penguins lead the Eastern Conference semifinal series, 3-1, and are looking to close out the top-seeded Capitals in Washington.
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On Tuesday, that went to the top-seeded Sloane Stephens, who lost 6-2, 7-5 to the 70th ranked Rebecca Peterson.
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Top-seeded Simona Halep defeated Sloane Stephens, 7-6 (3), 6-0, in her opening match at the Citi Open in Washington.
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But all this winning has vaulted the Indians over the Houston Astros for the top-seeded spot in the American League playoffs.
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The top-seeded 49ers (14-3) earned the right to host next Sunday's NFC Championship Game against either Seattle or Green Bay.
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No. 26-ranked Andy Murray, the defending champion, is the top-seeded player, followed by Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
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This season, buttressed by Carr, Oakland featured one of the few offenses capable of challenging top-seeded New England in the conference.
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The Dane broke the top seeded Spaniard's opening service game and repeated the feat twice more to cruise through the first set.
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European Open Top-seeded Brit Kyle Edmund cruised into the quarterfinals at Antwerp, Belgium, defeating Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas 27-25, 26-24.
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All eight seeds are through to Friday's quarter-finals with top seeded Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza opening proceedings against Ana Konjuh of Croatia.
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Gonzaga on the other hand, another top-seeded team, has already beat Duke while playing without one of their best players, Killian Tillie.
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The top-seeded Huskies have won 25 consecutive NCAA games and 108 in a row overall with a 116-55 win over Albany.
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The top-seeded Spaniard will next face fifth seed Ana Konjuh of Croatia, who battled past Russia's Natalia Vikhlyantseva 7-5 6-4.
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Brook Lopez recorded 533 points, seven rebounds and five blocked shots and Eric Bledsoe also scored 19 points for the top-seeded Bucks.
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Top-seeded Murray's victory was in contrast to numerous big battles in the U.S. Open run-up event and a slew of tiebreakers.
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That play propelled the Packers to a 20093-13 victory and a date at top-seeded Dallas in the divisional round next Sunday.
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The top-seeded Cardinals (30-3), who made it to the Final Four last year, are playing in their ninth consecutive NCAA Tournament.
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And if they manage to force a decisive seventh game back in Oakland, all the pressure would be on the top-seeded Warriors.
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Sports Briefing Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska and second-seeded Angelique Kerber were upset in the opening round of the Madrid Open on Sunday.
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Top-seeded Cleveland, which lost to Detroit in overtime by 112-110 while both teams rested their starters, will face the Pistons again.
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Top-seeded Andy Murray defeated Grigor Dimitrov to win the China Open in Beijing, his first victory in the tournament in three tries.
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So it's hardly a surprise that the top-seeded Patriots are overwhelming favorites in Saturday night's AFC Divisional Round matchup against visiting Houston.
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Top-seeded Andy Murray reached the final of the China Open by beating fifth-seeded David Ferrer, 6-2, 6-3, in Beijing.
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"At the decisive moments, he just came up with some extraordinary tennis, and I have to congratulate him," said the top-seeded Djokovic.
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Killian Tillie scored a team-high 24 points for the top-seeded Bulldogs (28-4), hitting 3 of 12 shots from the field.
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A No. 16 seed — the Retrievers of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — beat the top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers, 74-54, on Friday.
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With 20 points and 10 assists, the junior was the second-seeded Spartans' best player against top-seeded Duke in Sunday's regional final.
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Bartoli beat top-seeded Henin to reach her first Wimbledon final in 22015 before losing the final in straight sets to Venus Williams.
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Top-seeded Simona Halep opens against the wild card Destanee Aiava, and could face the slumping star Eugenie Bouchard in the second round.
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With the win, the Yankees earned the right to move onto the division series where they will face the top-seeded Cleveland Indians.
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Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic beat sixth-seeded Sofia Kenin 6-4, 63-6, 6-1 to reach the semis.
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Roland-Garros winner Ash Barty looms in the quarterfinals, while the top-seeded Osaka could be her opponent in the finals once again.
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The Seawolves advance with six straight wins to face their Colonial Athletic Association rival, top-seeded and top-ranked James Madison, on Dec.
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Thomas, playing a day after his 22-year-old sister was killed in a car accident, led top-seeded Boston with 33 points.
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Daria Gavrilova upset the top-seeded defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-4, 6-4, to reach the Connecticut Open final in New Haven.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber defeated Katerina Siniakova, 6-2, 1-6, 7-43, to advance to the third round of the Madrid Open.
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In the quarterfinals, she beat top-seeded Kiki Bertens, 7-6 (1), 6-4, the first top-40 player she had ever defeated.
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Sharapova became a global star in 22008 by winning Wimbledon at age 22019, upsetting top-seeded Serena Williams in a hard-hitting final.
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They are the top-seeded team in the A.F.C., and Jackson is the prohibitive favorite to win the league's Most Valuable Player Award.
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Nashville (03-29-12) throttled the top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks in a sweep even more stunning in execution than it was on paper.
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Freshman guard Zach Norvell Jr. added 17 points for the top-seeded Bulldogs (30-4), who won their sixth consecutive WCC tournament title.
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A stunning defeat of top-seeded Villanova, the defending national champion, by eighth-seeded Wisconsin at last supplied a dose of exhilarating chaos.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber reached the tournament's quarterfinals for the first time by beating the Olympic champion Monica Puig, 6-2, 6-3.
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UConn, a second seed, leads the series, 37-12, but top-seeded Notre Dame has the edge at the Final Four, 4-3.
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Serbian teen Olga Danilovic stunned top-seeded Julia Georges 6-3, 6-3 to reach the semifinals of the Moscow River Cup on Friday.
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JiangXi Open Unseeded Lin Zhu stunned top-seeded Shuai Zhang 26-22 (3), 4-6, 6-1 to reach the semifinals in Nanchang, China.
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Michigan (26-7) earned its sixth straight victory and will face top-seeded and No. 2 ranked Michigan State in the semifinals on Saturday.
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The teams left in the tournament are top-seeded Immortals, with a 6-1 record, Kungarna, Team Liquid, Renegades, Luminosity Gaming and CompLexity Gaming.
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The top-seeded Celtics host the defending champion Cavaliers in Game 43 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday and Game 2 on Friday.
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DeMar DeRozan had 35 points, six rebounds and six assists for the top-seeded Raptors, who were outscored 66-47 in the second half.
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That one series was a big one, though, as the eighth-seeded Grizzlies upset the top-seeded Spurs in the first round in 2011.
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Tata Open Maharashtra Italian qualifier Roberto Marcora upset top-seeded Frenchman Benoit Paire 6-4, 6-133 to make the quarterfinals at Pune, India.
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German Tennis Championships Top-seeded Dominic Thiem cruised into the quarterfinals in Hamburg, recording a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Australia's John Millman.
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Hamburg European Open Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria cruised into the quarterfinals in Hamburg, Germany, beating Hungary's Marton Fucsovics 7-5, 6-33.
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Senior guard Patricio Garino scored 18 points for fourth-seeded George Washington (24-10), which will play top-seeded Monmouth in the second round.
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Top-seeded New England will play in its seventh straight AFC title game next Sunday, hosting either the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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They pushed the top seeded Boston Celtics to a seventh game, where their bench, an Achilles heel all year long, turned into a puddle.
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In 2013, ninth-seeded Wichita State made it all the way to the Final Four before losing to top-seeded Louisville in the semifinals.
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Eighth-seeded Detroit held a seven-point lead with 11 minutes remaining in Game 2000 before top-seeded Cleveland rallied and stymied the Pistons.
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She felled top seeded American Serena Williams in straight sets in the semi-finals, and took down sister Venus Williams earlier in the tournament.
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"It was a good start for me," said the top-seeded Williams, who has not won a Grand Slam title since last year's Wimbledon.
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Tsonga will next face either top-seeded Novak Djokovic or the unseeded Kyle Edmund, who were scheduled to play each other later Sunday night.
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Other Western Conference match-ups include the top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks against the Nashville Predators and the Minnesota Wild against the St Louis Blues.
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The top-seeded Cavaliers beat the third-seeded Boilermakers 217-219.7 in the NCAA Tournament's South Region final in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday night.
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In fact, Michigan State was the second most popular pick to win the national title this year, behind top-seeded Kansas, according to Yahoo.
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The top-seeded Cardinals (31-3) started fast and stayed in gear on the way to earning their third consecutive round-of-16 berth.
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Last season, helped by the upset by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, of top-seeded Virginia, no one made it past 28 games.
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Clemson (16-15), which will play top-seeded and fourth-ranked Florida State in Thursday's third round, also got 11 points from John Newman.
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The team — which defeated top-seeded Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova on the way to the final — had won the Miami Open in March.
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The top-seeded Beavers do not play again until Friday and need one more victory to advance to next week's best-of-three finals.
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Querrey reached his first Grand Slam semifinal by beating top-seeded Andy Murray, 3-6, 1-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1.
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To get there, Sharapova might have to face top-seeded Angelique Kerber in the third round and sixth-seeded Simona Halep in the quarterfinals.
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An article on Monday previewing the East Region in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament misstated the record of top-seeded Villanova in some copies.
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In the semifinals, Murray and Skupski will face the top-seeded team of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, who won Wimbledon in July.
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American qualifier Jennifer Brady stunned top-ranked and top-seeded home favorite Ashleigh Barty in straight sets Thursday at the Brisbane International in Australia.
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Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka also dropped the first set in his quarterfinal, against Sam Querrey, in a 4-6, 7-5, 20103-2 win.
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Arizona State, which won in the tournament for the third time in 16 seasons, will play top-seeded Oregon in the quarterfinals on Thursday.
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The top-seeded player, Novak Djokovic, faces No. 15 Daniil Medvedev, whose ranking has soared from No. 65 since the beginning of last season.
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Northwestern's run in the NCAA Tournament came to an abrupt halt against top-seeded Gonzaga when the Wildcats' second-half rally came up short.
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Group B top-seeded United States have their next opponent, 16th ranked Japan, in their crosshairs while Serbia get unbeaten Australia, Group A's top seed.
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ET tonight on CBS, with the winner facing either top-seeded Virginia or No.4 seed Iowa State in the Midwest Region final on Sunday.
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Kevin Durant added 26, including a lead-extending jumper with 30.7 seconds left, as the Thunder stole home-court advantage from the top-seeded Warriors.
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The winner of Sunday's Green Bay-New York Giants game travel to Dallas to face the top-seeded Cowboys in the other NFC Divisional game.
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Patricia Maria Tig stunned top-seeded Anastasija Sevastova 6-2, 7-53 on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the BRD Bucharest Open in Romania.
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Earlier, Danielle Collins of Virginia defeated top-seeded Hayley Carter of North Carolina, 6-3, 218-216, for her second N.C.A.A. women's tennis national championship.
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She won five matches there, losing to top-seeded Karolina Pliskova, who is ranked 17th in the world, in two tiebreaker sets in a quarterfinal.
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova rallied to defeat Monica Puig, 33-23, 26-22, 6-4, and advance to the Prague Open semifinals.
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Houston earned a second shot at top-seeded Golden State, a year after losing in five games to the Warriors in the Western Conference finals.
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Hungarian Ladies Open Top-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck defeated Ukraine's Kateryna Kozlova 27-25, 53-25, 22-250 to advance to the semifinals in Budapest.
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Around Tennis Top-seeded Angelique Kerber, who lost to Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final, withdrew from the Swedish Open because of an elbow injury.
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The winner of Sunday's Green Bay-New York Giants game travels to Dallas to face the top-seeded Cowboys in the other NFC divisional game.
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Top-seeded North Carolina does not rely on the 3-pointer, which could be helpful, and it is playing in Raleigh, which will surely help.
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JoCorey Williams had 17 points and six rebounds for top-seeded Middle Tennessee (30-4), which earned its third NCAA Tournament bid in five years.
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Top-seeded Euro squad FlipSid3 Tactics lost to Cosmic in the S1 Grand Finals, but is back with a refreshed roster and plenty of motivation.
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That cache of contenders figures to leave the top half relatively open for the top-seeded Nadal, who opens against 81st-ranked Víctor Estrella Burgos.
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Perhaps the only player able to stop the top-seeded Djokovic is the in-form Nadal, who won the title in Montreal earlier this month.
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Kanepi, a powerful Estonian veteran ranked 44th, had knocked out the top-seeded Simona Halep in the first round last Monday in two emphatic sets.
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Sinner stormed onto the scene late last year, defeating top-seeded competitor Alex de Minaur to claim his first ATP title in Milan in November.
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The top-seeded Celtics torched Chicago to finish off a tougher-than-anticipated series and advance in the playoffs for the first time since 22014.
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Frenchman Jeremy Chardy's 6-1, 6-2 victory over Argentine Diego Schwartzman earned him a Round of 16 matchup with top-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic.
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"Just watch," Henry said, moments after the Titans thrashed the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens 28-12 in an AFC Divisional game in Maryland on Saturday.
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Top-seeded Simona Halep rolled past Jennifer Brady 6-2, 6-0 on Friday to reach the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
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SPORTS An article on Monday previewing the East Region in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament misstated the record of top-seeded Villanova in some copies.
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Mattek-Sands is the No. 1-ranked doubles player (and No. 90 in singles), and she and Safarova were the top-seeded pairing at Wimbledon.
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Cilic also benefited from an opponent's maladies when the top-seeded Nadal retired two games into the fifth set of their quarterfinal match on Tuesday.
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That play gave the Packers a 232-53 half-time lead en route to a date at top-seeded Dallas in the divisional round next Sunday.
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In Saturday night's final, North Carolina (3-9) faces top-ranked and top-seeded Virginia, which eliminated No. 19 Clemson 64-58 in the first semifinal.
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Top-seeded homeland favorite Dominic Thiem won the five first games of his match with Pablo Carreno Busta before the Spaniard retired with a back injury.
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Top-seeded Kansas State used a 13-3 run — though it took nearly five minutes — to start the second half to even the score at 29.
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Also qualifying for the quarterfinals were top-seeded Diego Schwartzman of Argentina, fourth-seeded Laslo Djere of Serbia and eighth-seeded Juan Ignacio Londero of Argentina.
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The road so far: The Predators served notice that we could safely ignore their regular season by sweeping the top-seeded Blackhawks in the opening round.
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The 21-year-old Badosa will face top-seeded Dutch Kiki Bertens, who posted a 6-26, 26-24, 26-23 win over Italy's Jasmine Paolini.
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"Just stressed, watching Federer," Miranda tweeted with a picture of himself looking, indeed, stressed during the tense match between the top-seeded player and his opponent.
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Generali Open Top-seeded Dominic Thiem cruised into the quarterfinals in his home country, beating fellow Austrian Sebastian Ofner 6-3, 6-2 in 76 minutes.
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Ingram returns to the court on Thursday night when fourth-seeded Duke faces top-seeded Oregon in an NCAA West Regional Sweet 16 game in Anaheim.
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Stosur, who has eight career titles, advanced on a walkover after top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova could not play their semifinal because of an abdominal muscle problem.
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Former world number one and five-time Grand Slam champion Sharapova prevailed on her fourth match point to set up the meeting with top seeded Barty.
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On the women's side, top-seeded Karolina Pliskova will kick off the action at Arthur Ashe Stadium when she faces 27th-seeded Shuai Zhang of China.
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It's not often that a top-seeded NCAA Tournament team gets even better the next season, especially with all the roster turnover in contemporary college basketball.
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The top-seeded Bulgarian, who is making his first appearance in Dubai since 2011, takes on wildcard Malek Jaziri in his first round match on Tuesday.
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Top-seeded Virginia barely survived the only double-digit seed left, No. 211 Oregon, and No. 231 Purdue required overtime to knock out No. 212 Tennessee.
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It is not a surprise that the Patriots – who also advanced with an overtime victory, by 37-31 at top-seeded Kansas City – will be there.
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They went on to a 130-86 victory that gave them a 143-0 lead over the top-seeded Celtics in the best-of-seven series.
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Federer could face No. 261 Kei Nishikori, against whom he is 25-23, in the fourth round, and then top-seeded Andy Murray in the quarterfinals.
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The top-seeded Rockets will await the winner of the Utah-Oklahoma City series, which the Jazz lead 3-2 heading back to Salt Lake City.
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On the men's side, top-seeded Rafael Nadal, a 10-time champion at Roland Garros, is an overwhelming favorite and got help from the draw anyway.
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ASB Classic Top-seeded Serena Williams defeated fellow American Christina McHale 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Top-seeded Andy Murray also advanced, but without having to play, as Bernard Tomic withdrew before their second-round match because of a lower-back injury.
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Dorsey and his team did not forget, and in this year's regional final, in the hostile territory of Kansas City, Mo., they upset top-seeded Kansas.
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Dylan Maltz had two goals and an assist and top-seeded Maryland beat Ohio State, 25-21, in the N.C.A.A. men's lacrosse championship in Foxborough, Mass.
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Jewell Loyd scored 12 of her 13 points in the second half for top-seeded Seattle, which improved to 1.83-0 at home in the playoffs.
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One that remains elusive is a trip to the Final Four, where the top-seeded Bulldogs will head with one more victory in this West Region.
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The top-seeded Cavaliers received seven 3-pointers by shooting guard J.R. Smith and four from point guard Kyrie Irving in the 20-of-38 shooting effort.
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He was eventually named a team captain and helped lead the club to a first-round upset of the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks during the 2007 playoffs.
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Thiem, 25, did not drop a set during his five matches this week in Spain, including Saturday's 6-4, 6-1 win against the top-seeded Nadal.
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Citi Open Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki withdrew from the Washington event due to a right leg injury, shortly before she was scheduled to play her opening match.
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Sophomore forward Rui Hachimura added 17 points and freshman guard Zach Norvell Jr. had 14 as the top-seeded Bulldogs (29-4) won their 13th consecutive contest.
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NCAA tournament analysts point out that, despite 16 seeds going 0-124 against top-seeded teams, their odds of victory are a scant yet feasible 1.6 percent.
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The Beavers (26-7) advance to the Albany Region semifinals, where they will play top-seeded Louisville on Friday night in their fourth straight Sweet 232 appearance.
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Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas was tested in his first match of the tournament by Tommy Paul but held on to dispatch the American 6-63 7-5.
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Four players scored in double figures for the Huskies (27-8), which will meet top-seeded North Carolina on Sunday in a Midwest Region second-round game.
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The only other team with a chance, top-seeded Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut of France, ended their bid after a third consecutive round-robin defeat.
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Top-seeded Oregon (225-27) built an 280-point lead midway through the second half, but Andrew Andrews brought the Huskies back with a quick scoring flurry.
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KANSAS 215, AUSTIN PEAY 220 Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk scored a career-high 25 points, Perry Ellis added 265, and top-seeded Kansas throttled Austin Peay in Des Moines.
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The lack of bulletin board material did not slow top-seeded Connecticut on Saturday, as they dominated fifth-seeded Mississippi State, 232-24, at Webster Bank Arena.
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Pouille will meet the winner of the last quarter-final between top-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic and Kei Nishikori of Japan for a place in Sunday's final.
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It was not so long ago that the Grizz, as a lowly eighth seed, upended the top-seeded Spurs to signal their arrival as dark-horse contenders.
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The Garnet, which reached the Division III championship game last season, were the top-seeded team in this year's tournament and had reached the round of 16.
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The Eagles will face top-seeded North Dakota State (20-213), which has won six of the past seven F.C.S. titles, in the championship game on Jan.
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Top-seeded Wisconsin (33-4-2) faces the two-time defending champion Clarkson (43-7-2) on Friday in the semifinals at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.
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With just the 211 free left, Ledecky is the top-seeded swimmer headed into Friday night's final, having already broken the event's Olympic record during Thursday's heats.
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Top seeded American Steve Johnson is seeking to become the first player to win three consecutive titles in the tournament since Bobby Riggs did in 1936-38.
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Dimitrov had been the highest seed whom top-seeded Rafael Nadal could have faced before the quarterfinals, and his exit further opens that quarter of the draw.
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Top-seeded Team Singularity dominated their way through the field Saturday to hold one of four winners brackets spots at the CDC Paris Open 2020 in France.
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BAYLOR 97, LOUISVILLE 63 Nina Davis scored 21 points for top-seeded Baylor, which never trailed in a round-of-16 victory over Louisville in Oklahoma City.
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The other quarterfinals pit top-seeded Ashleigh Barty of Australia against No. 8 Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic, No. 2 seed Simona Halep of Romania vs.
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The Western Conference's top-seeded Portland Timbers and No. 2 Seattle Sounders FC will also need to wait a few more days to find out their opponents.
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Tashkent Open No. 20 seed Kristyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic ousted top-seeded Slovakian Viktoria Kuzmova 26-22, 6-4 to reach the semifinals in Uzbekistan.
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Top-seeded James Madison University, the defending national champion in the Football Championship Subdivision, will face second-seeded North Dakota State in the title game on Jan.
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The top-seeded Djokovic was rolling with a 3-1 lead in the second set, but he dropped serve twice in a row and lost his temper.
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In the first round of the Australian Open, which begins Monday, the top-seeded Williams will face Camila Giorgi, an unrelenting see-the-ball, hit-the-ball basher.
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At 33-29, the youthful bunch is in seventh place in the merciless Western Conference and seemingly headed for a postseason play-date with a top-seeded powerhouse.
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The Sooners (219-215) advance to play Sunday against top-seeded Virginia, which overcame a 218-point deficit to beat No. 257.6 Gardner-Webb 15-226 later Friday.
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The Jaguars are in the Big Dance for the first time since 2013, when they stretched top-seeded Gonzaga to the limit before dropping a 64-58 decision.
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The top-seeded squad, competing in their third straight championship since relocating from Western New York, said they are not taking their opponents, Chicago's fiery Red Stars, lightly.
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Trailing 65-83 with less than two minutes remaining, North Carolina ended the contest with an 8-0 spurt to pull clear of their fellow top-seeded opponents.
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The top-seeded Wildcats (24-9) advanced to Saturday's tournament championship game against Seton Hall, which knocked off No. 23 Marquette 81-79 in the late semifinal Friday.
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Palermo Ladies Open Top-seeded Kiki Bertens cruised to a 72-minute victory in her opening match at Palmero, Italy, crushing Georgia's Ekaterine Gorgodze 6-0, 6-1.
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The top-seeded Spaniard will face defending champion Alexander Zverev who overcame fourth seed Marin Cilic of Croatia 21-220(229) 7-5 in the other semi-final.
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The All-Star forward added nine rebounds, three assists and four blocks for the top-seeded Bucks, who will play fourth-seeded Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
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That includes an otherworldly 37 points in an 80-68 drilling of top-seeded Oregon on Saturday, when Hield went 8-for-593 from the 3-point arc.
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The top-seeded Zags will face second-seeded Saint Mary's (21-11) on Tuesday in the championship game, with Gonzaga shooting for its seventh consecutive WCC tournament title.
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With just over three minutes left in Detroit's first playoff game in seven years, the Pistons trailed the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers and Lebron James by five points.
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Kevin Love had 20 points and 12 rebounds for the top-seeded Cavaliers, who can close out the Eastern Conference series in Game 4 here on Sunday night.
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Wawrinka, who won the tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 2015, will face top-seeded Japan's Kei Nishikori, a winner over Marton Fucsovics of Hungary 73-3, 6-2.
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That was how long Isner had to wait for eighth-seeded Kevin Anderson to knock top-seeded Roger Federer out of Wimbledon in a marathon five-set match.
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CONNECTICUT 72, DUKE 59 Napheesa Collier had 16 points and 233 rebounds to help top-seeded UConn advance to the round of 8 for the 13th consecutive season.
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Neither the top-seeded Halep nor the second-seeded Wozniacki has won a Grand Slam singles title, but whoever wins their final will become No. 21 on Monday.
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That has happened just four times in those 22016 seasons, most recently when the sixth-seeded Green Bay Packers beat the top-seeded Falcons after the 63 season.
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In that one, top-seeded Simona Halep shrugged off three match points to defeat the American speedster Lauren Davis, 212-6, 6-4, 15-13, in the afternoon.
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Top-seeded Simona Halep, who badly rolled her ankle in her first-round win on Tuesday, won with ease on Thursday, beating Eugenie Bouchard, 26-413, 241-216.
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Also on the top half of the draw are top-seeded Simona Halep and eighth-seeded Petra Kvitova, who was the oddsmakers' favorite before the draw was made.
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On the men's side, top-seeded Andy Murray, who, like Kerber, has struggled despite his ranking this year, received the most daunting first-week challenge of top players.
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Nick Kyrgios wore a yellow No. 8 Bryant jersey as he walked on court for his blockbuster match against the top-seeded Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open.
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On Tennis Kyrgios seemed more motivated than ever at this Australian Open, but it was not enough to overcome a typically dogged performance from the top-seeded Nadal.
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With the roof closed because of rain Tuesday, top-seeded Rafael Nadal certainly noticed the cacophony caused by the chatter and drone of the fans under the structure.
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Some of the top-seeded players — including not only Halep but also No. 5 Caroline Wozniacki, No. 6 Angelique Kerber and No. 7 Johanna Konta — have lost already.
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The Cavaliers looked overmatched at times against the top-seeded Raptors in Toronto, but again pulled a victory from somewhere to take a one-game-to-none lead.
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Top-seeded Golden State dropped a 210-213 decision to Utah on Monday and figures to limit the minutes of its starters to remain fresh for the postseason.
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BIG EAST Donte DiVincenzo had 25 points, Kris Jenkins added 24, and top-seeded Villanova cruised past St. John's, 108-67, in the quarterfinals at Madison Square Garden.
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Top-seeded North Carolina may be peaking at the right time and only ACC rival Notre Dame stands in the way of a trip to the Final Four.
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The top-seeded Bearcats (30-4) earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, while the third-seeded Cougars (26-7) will snag an at-large berth.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Serena Williams could face a fourth-round match against top-seeded Simona Halep, or perhaps her sister Venus, in the Australian Open, which begins on Monday.
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They lost only once after the meeting, and most recently rolled past second-seeded Michigan, thwarted top-seeded Gonzaga and staved off Michigan State, another No. 2 seed.
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The top-seeded Stars earned a split on the road with a hard-fought 22-221 victory in Game 21 to push the Wild to the brink of elimination.
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Top-seeded Roger Federer reached the semifinals of the Swiss Indoors Basel in walkover fashion, while Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas had to rally on Friday to set up their showdown.
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Top-seeded Golden State's third narrow win of the best-of-seven series puts the defending champions one victory away from a fifth straight trip to the West finals.
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Top-seeded Gael Monfils survived a tough three-set match against fellow Frenchman Adrian Mannarino on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier.
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Eric Paschall scored 17 points to lead four players in double figures for the top-seeded Wildcats (25-9), who earned the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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Barty converted four of her seven break chances and struck 26 winners in the 6-4, 6-63 victory, compared to just nine winners by the top-seeded Romanian.
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Spain's Rafa Nadal is the top-seeded player in the tournament, while Germany's Alexander Zverev, who won the Citi Open championship on Sunday in Washington, is the second seed.
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The pair exchanged early breaks in overcast conditions before top-seeded Federer stamped his authority by winning the tiebreak 7-1, ending Kudla's 10-set winning streak this week.
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Yet despite the event's well-deserved reputation for giant-killing, it had never delivered the ultimate shock—a top-seeded team losing in the first round—until last night.
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Top-seeded Kiki Bertens will play for her third title of the season after dispatching Kazakhstan qualifier Elena Rybakina in the semifinals of Libema Open at 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
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Libema Open Chile's Nicolas Jarry advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 upset of top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
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Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas dismissed Argentina's Guido Andreozzi 6-3, 23-4 on Wednesday to earn his first tour victory of the season at the Sydney International in Australia.
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Open Parc Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Lyon Top-seeded Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia sidled by French lucky loser Tristan Lamasine 27-26, 23-26 in France to reach the quarterfinals.
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The Predators, who swept top-seeded Chicago in the first round, surrendered three goals for the second straight game after limiting the Blackhawks to three for the entire series.
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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic faced a strong challenge from Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro on Wednesday, but the Serb emerged with a 73-6, 6-4, 20-27 victory.
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"I've always had this fire inside, and I always wanted to be a part of the great players," said Putintseva, who will play top-seeded Serena Williams on Thursday.
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In 2014, the top-seeded Spurs needed seven games to outlast Monta Ellis and the Mavericks, then lost only four games the rest of the way to the title.
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RADWANSKA CRUISES Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska completed a dominating week at the Connecticut Open by beating Elina Svitolina, 6-1, 7-6 (3), in the final in New Haven.
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A TOP SEED FALLS The unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman upset top-seeded David Goffin, 24-22, 33-23, 20-262, to reach the European Open final in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki withdrew from the Citi Open in Washington on Tuesday due to a right leg injury, shortly before she was scheduled to play her opening match.
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Top-seeded Sofia Kenin survived a three-set test but second-seeded Kristina Mladenovic was eliminated Thursday in second-round action at the Open 6eme Sens in Lyon, France.
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NOTTINGHAM OPEN The top-seeded Johanna Konta overcame a second-set wobble against Ashleigh Barty to claim a 6-3, 7-5 victory and reach the semifinals in England.
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Moselle Open Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta needed just 71 minutes to rout top-seeded David Goffin of Belgium 6-3, 6-2 in the second round at Metz, France.
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Top-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland knocked out hometown favorite Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6 (4), 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy quarterfinals in Russia.
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The top-seeded pair, Zsombor Piros and Wu Yibing, as well as one of their opponents, were told to change after the umpire saw Piros's blue underwear peeking through.
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Regardless of Sunday's outcome, the Flyers (143-27-14) were locked into the Eastern Conference's second wild card and a quarterfinal-round matchup with the top-seeded Washington Capitals.
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Now some of the same critics are saying the five-time NFL MVP might be just the quarterback to lead the AFC's top-seeded team to Super Bowl 20113.
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But there are two programs, seventh-seeded South Carolina and top-seeded Gonzaga, in their first Final Four, a dual debut of a type that last happened in 1996.
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No. 6 seed Maria Sakkari of Greece will face top-seeded Swiss Belinda Bencic in the quarterfinals after a 26-21, 26-23 defeat of Alize Cornet of France.
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Opelka downed the top-seeded Isner in their hard-hitting semifinal encounter Saturday night as the two set a record with 81 combined aces in a three-set match.
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Cutting him in the fall hurt the top-seeded Chiefs, who felt his absence in the playoffs and, perhaps as a result, failed to advance to the Super Bowl.
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Taylor Fritz upended top-seeded Guido Pella of Argentina 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at the Nature Valley International in Eastbourne, England.
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Turkish Airlines Open Antalya Serbian qualifier Viktor Troicki endured soaring temperatures and knocked out top-seeded Frenchman Benoit Paire 26-63 (26), 23-272 (5) to reach the quarterfinals.
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Connecticut 77, Temple 62 Forward Daniel Hamilton's 214-point, 22-rebound effort pushed fifth-seeded Connecticut past top-seeded Temple 218-214 on Saturday at Amway Center in Orlando, Fla.
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Top-seeded Roger Federer had to work for it, but he ultimately beat Frenchman Gilles Simon on Friday to advance to the semifinals at the Swiss Indoors Basel in Switzerland.
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Despite the heroics, Conrad-Petersen and his partner Mads Kolding lost the match (and, spoiler alert, the point) to the top-seeded Japanese duo of Takeshi Kamura and Keigo Sonoda.
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European Open Top-seeded Kyle Edmund of Great Britain outlasted sixth-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4) to win the title at Antwerp, Belgium.
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Silver-winning Danes Kamilla Rytter Juhl and Christinna Pedersen ended China's 20-year reign in women's doubles but the gold went to top-seeded Japanese Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo.
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Top-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils defeated Canadian Vasek Pospisil 22013-22, 6-3 on Sunday to become the second three-time winner of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier.
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The top-seeded Serb won 7-6 (5), 1-6, 203-6 (4), 4-6, 13-12 (3) on Centre Court, defeating Federer in the final for the third time.
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Top-seeded Novak Djokovic survived a second-set challenge to dismiss eighth-seeded Leonardo Mayer, 63-3, 7-5, to reach the Qatar Open semifinal in Doha.
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But an older and wiser Petkovic is hoping she will be able to tap into her deepest thoughts to end a seven-match losing streak against the top seeded Romanian.
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The top-seeded Cougars (30-2) held UConn without a field goal for nearly 13 minutes in the second half to turn a 33-point halftime lead into a laugher.
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The win came a day after Barty, 22 years old and ranked No. 63 in the world, knocked off top-seeded and world No. 1 Simona Halep on the hardcourt.
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In the women's draw, top-seeded Serena Williams, who is seeking her first Grand Slam title since last year's Wimbledon, begins play Tuesday against the qualifier Amra Sadikovic of Switzerland.
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Midwest VIRGINIA 81, HAMPTON 45 Top-seeded Virginia beat 16th-seeded Hampton (20-183) in Raleigh, N.C., after Coach Tony Bennett collapsed in the final seconds of the first half.
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If fourth-seeded Elina Svitolina fails to reach the semifinals and top-seeded Karolina Pliskova fails to reach the final, the top spot will be Muguruza's for the first time.
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But top-seeded Simona Halep and No. 3 Garbiñe Muguruza, the defending champion, needed less than three hours between them to cruised through their first-round matches on Centre Court.
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Alex Killorn scored twice during a four-goal second period, helping the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference beat the Devils, 5-3, on Saturday afternoon in Tampa, Fla.
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Monday night's 22018-22016 victory over top-seeded Alabama (21985-258), which gave the Tigers their second national championship in three seasons, was not so much about guts but domination.
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The two highest seeds from the top quarter, top-seeded Simona Halep and sixth-seeded Karolina Pliskova, advanced to the quarterfinals on Monday, setting up a quarterfinal showdown on Wednesday.
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Gourley struck out 10 while throwing a two-hitter, helping the top-seeded Gators beat Washington, 5-2, in a semifinal at the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.
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But the rising star still has a lot of work to do: In the semifinals, he has to beat No. 5 seed Dominic Thiem, who upset top-seeded Rafael Nadal.
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RADWANSKA WINS IN NEW HAVEN Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska survived a second-set comeback bid from Eugenie Bouchard to advance to the quarterfinals of the Connecticut Open in New Haven.
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Nadal, of Spain, became the first of the so-called Big Four, also including top-seeded Andy Murray, No. 2 Novak Djokovic and No. 3 Roger Federer, to go home.
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Next weekend, the Rams will face the winner of the other divisional playoff game, in New Orleans between the top-seeded Saints and the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
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Fourth-seeded Steve Johnson beat top-seeded Jack Sock, 4-6, 6-103, 6-3, in an all-American semifinal in the United States Men's Clay Court Championship in Houston.
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PAC-12 Top-seeded Washington (26-7) struggled early and late but forced 213 turnovers in a 66-61 win against Colorado (21-12) in the semifinals in Las Vegas.
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For Chicago, sweeping changes began in 2017 after the top-seeded Blackhawks were swept in the first round by a Predators team that went on to the Stanley Cup finals.
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Its 63-62 victory stunned Auburn, which minutes before the end appeared to have the game sewn up, and sent the top-seeded Cavaliers to their first national championship game.
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Makes her first WTA tour final in Bogota in 2010, beating top-seeded Argentine Gisela Dulko in the semi-finals before losing to local Mariana Duque-Mario 6-4 6-3.
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The top-seeded Warriors, playing without Kevin Durant and DeMarcus Cousins, will go for the series sweep and a berth in their fifth consecutive NBA Finals on Monday night in Portland.
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Ogunbowale scored 21 of her game-high 23 points in the second half for the Fighting Irish (35-3), who meet top-seeded Baylor in the national championship game Sunday night.
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Kvitova's withdrawal comes after seventh-seeded Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens and Great Britain's Johanna Konta withdrew Tuesday due to sickness and after top-seeded Romanian Simona Halep withdrew with an Achilles injury.
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The top-seeded duo of American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Czech Lucie Safarova had to withdraw before the second round after Mattek-Sands suffered a severe injury in a singles match.
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Top-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils reached the championship match of the Open Sud de France with a 7-6 (4), 27-26 victory over Serbia's Filip Krajinovic on Saturday at Montpellier.
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Unseeded American Sofia Kenin delivered an eye-popping upset by ousting top-seeded Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday in the first round of the Hobart International in Australia.
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka lost to eighth-seeded Benoît Paire, 6-4, 1-53, 7-5, on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Open 13 in Marseille, France.
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Milos Raonic won the Brisbane International in Australia, defeating top-seeded Roger Federer, 26-24, 6-4, and reversing the outcome of their meeting in last year's final.
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Top-seeded Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands cruised into the quarter-finals of the Palermo (Italy) Ladies Open, routing Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic 6-3, 6-1 in the second round Thursday.
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World No. 4 and top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria suffered a surprise upset on Friday at the hands of Russia's Andrey Rublev in the quarterfinals of the Hamburg European Open.
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The top-seeded German had lost two of three encounters with the big-hitting Begu last year and was 2-2 overall against the Romanian in career head-to-head meetings.
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The Wildcats dumped top-seeded Kansas 64-59 for the South Region title, playing superb defense on forward Perry Ellis all night and forcing three crucial turnovers in the last minute.
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Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland breezed past the 19-year-old Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, 7-5, 6-1, in the second round of the Connecticut Open in New Haven.
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COLONIAL SEMIFINALS Ameen Tanksley scored 219 points, and top-seeded Hofstra (213-276) edged fifth-seeded William & Mary (76-22) in Baltimore, 813-281, in a Colonial Athletic Association semifinal game.
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But they were stomped by top-seeded Texas A&M, 71-38, in the semifinals of their conference tournament in what is virtually certain to have been Simmons's last collegiate game.
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The 23-year-old Finland native overcame an uneven regular season by allowing 22 goals in 10 playoff games, including a pair of shutouts in the sweep of top-seeded Chicago.
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Ford scored 18 points to catapult the third-seeded Gaels (143-7) into Tuesday's championship game, where they face top-seeded Gonzaga for the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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LOUISVILLE 90, MARQUETTE 72 Shots began falling again for Myisha Hines-Allen and Asia Durr, a potent combination that has often resulted in good things for top-seeded Louisville (34-2).
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BOSTON — After Villanova watched University of Maryland, Baltimore County, complete its unforgettable upset over top-seeded Virginia from a hotel room in Pittsburgh, Coach Jay Wright said nothing to his team.
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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic beat Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4, to reach the Australian Open's third round in a rematch of their 2008 final at Melbourne Park.
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PAC-12 Payton Pritchard scored 20 points and led Oregon's dominating defense, helping the sixth-seeded Ducks (23-12) beat top-seeded Washington, 93-48, in the final in Las Vegas.
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By Sunday, when top-seeded Kevin Anderson defeated No. 2100-seeded Sam Querrey, 2100-6, 6-3, 7-6(1), in the singles final, there were 1003,111 people in the stands.
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HALEP RETIRES FROM QUARTERFINAL Top-seeded Simona Halep retired from her quarterfinal at the Citi Open in Washington because of the heat, allowing Russia's Ekaterina Makarova to advance to the semifinals.
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MONTREAL — Top-seeded Rafael Nadal was upset by the Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4), in the third round of the Rogers Cup on Thursday night.
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Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka began his Geneva Open title defense with a 215-minute spell on court, taking a 212-252 lead before Rogerio Dutra Silva retired with an ankle injury.
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Top-seeded Rafael Nadal, who would tie Roger Federer for the all-time men's lead with a 20th Grand Slam title here, opens against the 72nd-ranked Hugo Dellien of Bolivia.
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One player attracted plenty of attention without the benefit of a match: top-seeded Andy Murray, who took to the practice court under the watchful eye of his coach, Ivan Lendl.
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Intrum Stockholm Open Janko Tipsarevic broke six serves and breezed to a 6-63, 6-1 win over top-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini in their second-round match in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The win sends the Seahawks to Green Bay to face the Packers while the Vikings travel to meet the top-seeded San Francisco 23ers in NFC Divisional Round contests next weekend.
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On Friday night, the top-seeded Tar Heels used their size and shooting acumen to overwhelm the fourth-seeded Butler Bulldogs, 92-80, in a South Regional semifinal at FedEx Forum.
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RAONIC ADVANCES IN LYON Top-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada eased into the semifinals of the Lyon Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over the Portuguese qualifier Gastao Elias.
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Kyle Lowry had 27 points and seven assists for the top-seeded Raptors, who are one defeat away from being eliminated by Cleveland in the playoffs for the third straight season.
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A year earlier, the Giants, who with a 9-7 regular season record were lucky to get a fourth seed, upset the top-seeded New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
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Williams, who dispatched the top-seeded Simona Halep in a hard-fought, fourth-round match, has not defeated two top-13 players at the same event since returning from her pregnancy.
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The Toronto linemates Nazem Kadri and Leo Komarov, who were tasked with shadowing Washington's top line, helped the Maple Leafs take the top-seeded Capitals to six games before being eliminated.
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PAC-12 Jaylen Nowell scored 24 points, and top-seeded Washington (25-7) held on for a 78-75 victory against Southern California (803-17) in the quarterfinals in Las Vegas.
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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic begins his title defense on Monday against 57th-ranked Philipp Kohlschreiber, a German veteran who beat Djokovic earlier this year, but has lost to him twice since.
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In the second year, six teams make the tournament, but top-seeded Villanova lost in the round of 32 for the second straight season, and only Xavier advanced to a regional semifinal.
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Roberta Vinci halted a streak of losses in finals to beat top-seeded Belinda Bencic, 26-22, 23-73, and take the inaugural St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy in Russia.
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Top-seeded Belinda Bencic defeated Annika Beck, 63-6 (3), 6-3, and she will have a quarterfinal against fifth-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who won, 6-1, 7-5, against Carina Witthöft.
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Auburn, the fifth seed in the tournament, moves on to Saturday's semifinals and will face eighth-seeded Florida, which shocked top-seeded and ninth-ranked LSU 76-73 in an earlier quarterfinal.
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The Pirates (24-8) are headed to the championship game of the tournament for the first time in 23 years where they will play No. 3 and top-seeded Villanova on Saturday.
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Top-seeded German Julia Goerges claimed her second title of the year on Saturday, beating Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 26-238, 22016-5 in the final of the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open.
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The top seeded Saints will host the NFC Championship game if they beat Philadelphia, but if the Eagles pull an upset then the Rams will be at home as the higher seed.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany, second-seeded Garbine Muguruza of Spain, third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and fourth-seeded Alison Riske of the United States will open tournament play Tuesday.
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Durant led all scorers with 26 points for the top-seeded Warriors, who had a chance to move into a second-round matchup with the fourth-seeded Houston Rockets had they won.
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"This trend is most pronounced for "Cinderella" schools, teams not traditionally known for basketball that have unexpected success in the (tournament), or underdog teams that are not top seeded," the analysts found.
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A team like the Predators sweeps the top-seeded Blackhawks and the mediocre Senators push the defending champs to a seventh game, and we all just kind of shrug and move on.
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Citi Open Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece notched his third consecutive straight-sets victory to reach the semifinals in Washington, downing 10th seed Benoit Paire of France 7-63, 6-0.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany struggled to defeat seventh-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia, 7-6 (5), 2-6, 6-3, on the opening day of the WTA Finals in Singapore.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber dropped a set before beating the local wild card Cornelia Lister, 2-1, 6-4, 6-2298, in the second round of the Ericsson Open in Bastad, Sweden.
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In their previous meeting in last year's NCAA Tournament, 10th-seeded Syracuse rallied from 16 points down in the second half to stun top-seeded Virginia and advance to the Final Four.
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Top-seeded Roger Federer and second-seeded Rafael Nadal remain as sturdy as tent poles on each side of the men's draw, but five of the top 21 seeds have been eliminated.
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The Connecticut women's team was in an online group chat while watching the Maryland-Baltimore County men upset top-seeded Virginia on Friday night in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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From its No. 8 spot, it knocked off top-seeded Michigan and second-seeded North Carolina on the way to the Final Four, then beat another No. 2-seeded team, Memphis State.
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With a 215-22008 victory on Friday, the top-seeded Lady Bears advanced to Sunday's final and will play against Notre Dame, the defending champion, for their first national title since 2012.
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He quickly resurfaced with the Charros, whom he led to a 15-11 record and an upset of top-seeded Tomateros de Culiacán to advance to the second round of the playoffs.
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Top-seeded Zhang Shuai of China retired due to illness while trailing compatriot Zhu Lin 6-0, 1-0 in the second round of the Jiangxi Open on Thursday in Nanchang, China.
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Meanwhile, fans waited in line at nearby concessions stands, wondered aloud about how top-seeded Simona Halep had lost to Kaia Kanepi in the first match on Armstrong a couple hours before.
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RADWANSKA REACHES SEMIFINALS Top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, the defending champion, beat eighth-seeded Shuai Peng of China, 7-2.73, 6-3, to reach the Connecticut Open semifinals in New Haven.
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Gauff won two thrilling three-setters in the first two rounds over Anastasia Potapova and Timea Babos before losing to top-seeded Naomi Osaka, 20-26, 22-26, in the third round.
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KERBER AND WOZNIACKI PREVAIL Top-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany advanced to her first Dubai Tennis Championships semifinals, while Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark reached her sixth semifinals in the United Arab Emirates.
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Devonte Green put up 18 points and 11 rebounds to lead top-seeded Indiana past fifth-seeded Arkansas 63-60 in an NIT second-round game on Saturday afternoon in Bloomington, Ind.
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Williams-Goss, a second-team all-American, led Gonzaga in scoring last year (218 points) as the top-seeded Zags advanced to the N.C.A.A. title game, which they lost to North Carolina.
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Caroline Steele had six goals and an assist, Taylor Hensh scored three times, and top-seeded Maryland beat Boston College, 16-13, in the N.C.A.A. women's lacrosse championship game in Foxborough, Mass.
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And his top-seeded team advanced to the Bridgeport Regional final with an 225-29 win over fourth-seeded U.C.L.A., the 222th straight victory for the Huskies, four-time defending national champions.
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In other second-round action, top-seeded American John Isner pounded 27 aces without a single double fault en route to a 7-6 (7), 43-4 win over Australia's Bernard Tomic.
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The Notre Dame junior forward Brianna Turner will miss the rest of the season with a knee injury, a major blow to the N.C.A.A. tournament hopes of the top-seeded Fighting Irish.
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In the playoffs, the eighth-seeded 76ers beat the top-seeded Bulls after Chicago's Derrick Rose injured a knee, and the LeBron James-Dwyane Wade-Chris Bosh Heat won their first title.
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Now, here they go again: Top-seeded Virginia will meet the No. 16 Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs (more frisky canines) on Friday in Columbia, S.C. Last year's loss initially devastated Virginia's players.
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That first truism remains accurate: Top-seeded Villanova (35-4), the Big East champion, and third-seeded Michigan (33-353), the Big Ten champion, are both among the best teams in college basketball.
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The final was set when the top-seeded Wawrinka defeated Benoît Paire, 6-4, 6-4, and the 63-year-old Coric beat Aljaz Bedene, 7-6 (5), 24-27 (26), 26-21.
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Karlovic won 1-6 7-6(5) 6-23 6-4 and for only the second time in the history of the event, the top seeded male was toppled on the first day.
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For Canada, defending gold medalists, it is their third straight appearance in the Olympic semi-finals and sets up a match on Friday against Germany, surprise winners over top-seeded Sweden in overtime.
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A much-anticipated night of all-ACC action in the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight begins in Chicago on Sunday when top-seeded Virginia meets No. 10 seed Syracuse in the Midwest Region final.
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Oregon (25-12) will play top-seeded Virginia on Thursday in the Sweet 233 in Louisville, Ky. Pritchard scored 10 of his points in the final 10 minutes, as the Ducks pulled away.
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Top-seeded American John Isner reached the final of the BB&T Atlanta Open with a 6-63, 6-7 (6), 6-1 victory over fourth-seeded Matthew Ebden of Australia on Saturday.
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The Jets jumped out to an early lead against the top-seeded Predators in the series decider thanks to the physical play of Paul Stastny, who finished with two goals and an assist.
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ASB Classic Taylor Fritz, ranked No. 50 in the world, upset top-seeded fellow American John Isner 7-6 (3), 7-6 (63) on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria beat the German teenager Alexander Zverev, 6-4, 230.9463-6, 6-0, to win the Nice Open in France, clinching his third ATP title of the year.
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Top-seeded Dutch Kiki Bertens will play for her third title of the season and 26th overall after downing Spain's Paula Badosa in straight sets Saturday at the Palermo Ladies Open in Italy.
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On Sunday, the top-seeded Djokovic will now face No. 2 Andy Murray in what seems an appropriately rigorous final exam as Djokovic tries to finish off his 12-year Roland Garros apprenticeship.
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Isaiah Hicks added 17 points, Kennedy Meeks had 13 points, Tony Bradley supplied 12 points and Luke Maye and Nate Britt each chipped in 10 points for top-seeded North Carolina (28-13).
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Top-seeded Angelique Kerber moved a step closer to her second straight Volvo Car Open title, reaching the semifinals with a 23-2, 6-3 victory over Irina Camelia Begu.
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THIEM AND POUILLE TO MEET IN FRANCE Top-seeded Dominic Thiem rallied past the local favorite Gilles Simon, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, to reach the Moselle Open final in Metz, France.
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Villanova is fresh off the biggest blowout in Final Four history and aims to carry the momentum into Monday's national championship contest when it faces top-seeded North Carolina at Houston's NRG Stadium.
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Top-seeded North Carolina scored the final 12 points to beat eighth-seeded Arkansas 72-65 and avoid an upset Sunday night in the NCAA Tournament's second round at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.
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He had just steered Seton Hall to its first Big East title since 1993 with a thrilling 69-67 victory over the No. 3-ranked and top-seeded Wildcats at Madison Square Garden.
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No. 6 seed Qiang Wang quickly finished off an upset of top-seeded Elina Svitolina, then followed it up with an epic semifinal victory on Saturday at the Hong Kong Open in China.
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As he stared down Jack Kocon, his childhood friend who plays for top-seeded Totino-Grace high school, he must have played out the only two outcomes for the game: him or me.
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The 2018-19 MVP carried the Milwaukee Bucks to a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals, before the Toronto Raptors stormed back, winning four straight and dispatching the top-seeded Bucks.
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Top-seeded Rafael Nadal wore a bright pink tank top for his third-round match against No. 27 Karen Khachanov, along with a generous amount of athletic tape on his balky right knee.
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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic won comfortably in both matches as well, beating Denis Shapovalov, 25-26, 23-3, on the main stadium first before beating Philipp Kohlschreiber, 6-3, 6-0, on Grandstand.
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What was left was a muddled draw with one principal attraction: a possible semifinal matchup between top-seeded Rafael Nadal and No. 3 Roger Federer, who had never played at the U.S. Open.
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Hana-cupid Japan Women's Open Japan's Nao Hibino hit 25 winners to upset top-seeded Su-Wei Hsieh of Chinese Taipei 6-4, 6-3 to advance to the semifinals in Hiroshima, Japan.
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MONFILS AND TSONGA WIN IN FRANCE Top-seeded Gaël Monfils and No. 2 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, both of France, won in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals of the Open 13 in Marseille.
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Until Saturday, when top-seeded Gonzaga clobbered Xavier, 232-22012, in the West Regional final, Few had won the most N.C.A.A. tournament games (213) among coaches who had never reached the national semifinals.
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BIG SKY Quinton Hooker scored 28 points, and top-seeded North Dakota (22-9) beat third-seeded Weber State (19-13), 93-89, in overtime to win the conference tournament in Reno, Nev.
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But the junior Jordan Bell, the Pacific-12 Conference defensive player of the year, amassed eight blocks in their round-of-8 win over top-seeded Kansas in Kansas City on Saturday night.
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James Harden had 32 points as the top-seeded Rockets&apos bid to return to the finals for the first time since 1995 fell short without Chris Paul, who was nursing a hamstring injury.
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Erste Bank Open 500 Fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan routed local favorite and top-seeded Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals at Vienna, Austria, dispatching him 26-27, 26-22 in just 21 minutes.
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Top-seeded Gonzaga and 11th-seeded Xavier try to reach the NCAA Tournament Final Four for the first time in school history when they meet in Saturday's West Region final at San Jose, Calif.
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Osaka's defeat of the top-seeded Halep stood out as the bigger of the two upsets, which played out under the lights on a chilly night in the California desert city of Indian Wells.
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Abierto de Tenis Mifel Top-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini recovered from a slow start to move past Spain's Marcel Granollers 23-26, 26-23, 22-26 and reach the quarterfinals in Los Cabos, Mexico.
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BRAZILIAN MEN ADVANCE After a loss by the top-seeded Brazilian women quieted the Copacabana crowd in the early semifinal, Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt on the men's side brought it back to life.
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Nicolas Mahut ousted No. 13 David Ferrer, 6-1, 6-4, 6-23, to set up a third-round match against Pierre-Hugues Herbert, his partner on the top-seeded doubles team at Wimbledon.
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After del Potro dispatched Wawrinka, top-seeded Serena Williams dueled with her fellow American Christina McHale, rallying from a break down in the third set to win, 22014-213 (221), 248-2100, 6-4.
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The top-seeded Djokovic, who was nursing a wrist injury at the beginning of the Open, got another break Tuesday night when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga retired after two sets because of a knee injury .
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The top-seeded woman, Simona Halep, was down a break at 3-5 in the first set against Saisai Zheng, but won the next 10 games to claim a 7-5, 6-0 win.
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You might admire the stoics and pragmatists in your life for their equanimity, but in this case, "upset" means unexpectedly beat in the ol' sports arena, which is unlikeliest for the TOP SEEDED teams.
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After completing a 3-6, 7-33 (4), 6-4 win against compatriot Pablo Andujar, Lopez struck 17 aces during a 3-6, 6-4, 6-73 upset against top-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini.
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Sports Briefing Top-seeded Simona Halep withdrew from the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy in Russia because of a knee injury, the same problem she blamed for her opening-round loss at the Australian Open.
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Kenny Goins hit a go-ahead, 3-point basket with 34.3 seconds remaining as second-seeded Michigan State eliminated top-seeded Duke 68-67 in a classic Sunday at Capital One Arena in Washington.
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They handled the rare adversity just fine, with Kevin Durant's 25 points leading the way in a 29-29 victory over the top-seeded Houston Rockets in Game 217 of the Western Conference finals.
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European Open Eighteen-year-old Italian Jannik Sinner saved the lone break point he faced and stunned top-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils, 6-3, 6-2, in their second-round match in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Denis Shapovalov of Canada won 63 of 29 points on his first serve to get past Frances Tiafoe 6-4, 6-2 and set up a second-round match against top-seeded Novak Djokovic.
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The Horned Frogs have played in the first round all five seasons in the conference, losing twice in the first round and twice in the second round before Thursday's victory over top-seeded Kansas.
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Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, and top-seeded Andy Murray posted straight-sets wins to reach the Qatar Open quarterfinals in Doha, but only Djokovic was asked to join his opponent in a selfie.
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One day before top-seeded Kansas opened play in the N.C.A.A. tournament, officials released an affidavit that said the freshman star Josh Jackson threatened to beat a female basketball player during a December confrontation.
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Top-seeded Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovakia defeated the United States' Francesca Di Lorenzo 7-6 (3), 63-3, and third-seeded Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium routed Russia's Liudmilla Samsonova 6-0, 6-1.
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In the top half, top-seeded Novak Djokovic, who won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open last year, opens against a qualifier and could face the wild card Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the second round.
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He will face the winner of Friday's semifinal between top-seeded Novak Djokovic, Nadal's longtime rival, and Lucas Pouille, a 24-year-old Frenchman who has made his own surprisingly deep run in Melbourne.
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ATLANTIC 10 Jeff Dowtin scored 22 points to help lead eighth-seeded Rhode Island (18-14) to a 75-323 upset of top-seeded Virginia Commonwealth (25-7) in the quarterfinals at Barclays Center.
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Look at this year's numbers: the top-seeded team has only won one of the 11 conference tournaments that have finished so far, and the No. 1 seed already has been eliminated from another.
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Following his wins at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, the top seeded Serb is heavily favored to seal a third successive Grand Slam title, and reclaim a tournament he has virtually owned throughout his career.
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Hubert Hurkacz notched his first career tour-level title Saturday when he knocked off top-seeded Frenchman Benoit Paire 6-1982, 3-6, 6-3 to win the Winston-Salem Open in rainy North Carolina.
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The top-seeded team in last week's doubles event, the French pairing of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, lost all three of their matches, with two of their defeats occurring in a super-tiebreak.
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It's unclear whether the 2016-17 Boston Celtics were a top-seeded powerhouse that nearly qualified for the NBA Finals, or a charmed collection of jagged overachievers that should've been swept from the first round.
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The East's top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers, powered by four-time league MVP LeBron James, are the conference's best shot at a title but talented teams like Toronto, Boston and Miami cold also make some noise.
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The top-seeded Warriors, playing without Durant and DeMarcus Cousins, will go for the series sweep in the best-of-seven and a berth in their fifth consecutive NBA Finals on Monday night in Portland.
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Last year, the Celtics were the top-seeded team in the East but were eliminated by the Cavaliers in the conference finals after Isaiah Thomas, their star point guard, was sidelined with a hip injury.
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Top-seeded Gonzaga and seventh-seeded South Carolina are both part of the Final Four for the first time in school history and the winner of Saturday's NCAA Tournament national semifinal contest in Glendale, Ariz.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Wildcard Jannik Sinner completed a dream run when he beat top-seeded Alex de Minaur to win the final of the Next Gen tournament for the season's best Under-21 players on Saturday.
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Wade and Mike Rhoades, the current V.C.U. coach, were both assistants at the program under Smart and part of that 2011 team that, among other things, beat top-seeded Kansas to reach the Final Four.
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One team is going to emerge with the first NIT championship in school history on Thursday when top-seeded Valparaiso faces fourth-seeded George Washington in the title contest at New York's Madison Square Garden.
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Skara came off the bench to score a season-high 15 points, none bigger than the jumper that gave the top-seeded Crusaders a 71-68 advantage after they had squandered a 16-point cushion.
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But Ferrell poured in 18 points with 5 rebounds and 4 assists in fifth-seeded Indiana's win over Kentucky last weekend, and Berry averaged 14.5 points in top-seeded North Carolina's first two tournament wins.
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The NBA's Eastern Conference Finals begin tonight, and while Boston holds home-court advantage, there is a pretty good chance that the top-seeded Celtics will be as overmatched as Cleveland's previous two playoff opponents.
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Cypriot veteran Marcos Baghdatis advanced to the quarterfinals of the Open Sud de France with a 6-7 (2), 63-6 (3), 6-4 upset of top-seeded Lucas Pouille on Thursday in Montpellier, France.
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Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic won her tour-leading fourth title of the season on Sunday, topping seventh-seeded Croat Petra Martic 13-21, 23-22 at the Zhengzhou Open in China.
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After winning a franchise-record 59 games and beating Washington in the first round of the playoffs, top-seeded Toronto sustained a humbling 4-0 sweep by LeBron James's Cleveland Cavaliers in the conference semifinals.
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MUGURUZA REACHES SEMIFINALS Top-seeded Garbiñe Muguruza rolled past Croatia's Ana Konjuh, 6-43, 6-3, in just over an hour to reach the semifinals of the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, Calif.
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He broke Tim Duncan's record for career postseason minutes played (in 28 fewer games than Duncan) and he so thoroughly humiliated the top-seeded Raptors on their home court that the term "LeBronto" was coined.
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In Queens, the Lions beat the three-time defending champion Cavaliers and, for the third time in the last five years, reached the final 2000, where they lost to eventual champion top-seeded Wake Forest.
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The top seeded Serb needed only 69 minutes to dispatch Millman — who was playing in his maiden ATP 500 final — and the 32-year-old won the title without dropping a set in the tournament.
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OREGON STATE IS TOP-SEEDED Oregon State (49-4), which put together the best season by any team in 35 years, was made the No. 1 national seed for the N.C.A.A. Division I baseball tournament.
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While Kansas City may not have exacted revenge for last season's playoff loss, the result may have dealt the Patriots a damaging blow to their customary status as one of the top-seeded playoff teams.
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SOCK WINS DELRAY FINAL BY DEFAULT Top-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada withdrew from Florida's Delray Beach Open final with a hamstring injury, handing the title to third-seeded Jack Sock of the United States.
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No. 15 Villanova Wildcats, at No. 23 Creighton BluejaysThe outlook: There's a case to be made for Duke or Lousiville as the ACC's top-seeded team, but the Cardinals get the edge for a few reasons.
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Top seeded Paire was businesslike in his 03-20 26-23 dismissal of Prajnesh Gunneswaran, crushing his 14 ace on match point to avenge his loss to the 29-year-old at Indian Wells in March.
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J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad Fifth-seeded Joao Sousa of Portugal rebounded from a first-set loss to beat top-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain 4-6, 63-3, 7-5 in Gstaad, Switzerland.
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Top-seeded John Isner delivered 24 aces whole posting a 4-63, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Australia's Matthew Ebden on Friday in Newport, R.I., to reach the semifinals of the Hall of Fame Open.
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Desmond Bane scored 30 points to lead the top-seeded TCU Horned Frogs to an 88-123 victory over the fourth-seeded Nebraska Cornhuskers in a second-round NIT game on Sunday at Fort Worth, Texas.
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Top-seeded Dominic Thiem gave the home crowd what it wanted on Saturday, dispatching Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-6 (0), 6-1 to win the Generali Open in Kitzbuhel, Austria, his third title of 2019.
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To defeat the Frenchman Gaël Monfils in the United States Open semifinals, the top-seeded Djokovic had to endure heat, humidity and a player whose moods and methods can be as capricious as a sudden cloudburst.
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Top-seeded Roger Federer overcame a 24-24 deficit in the second set to beat Malek Jaziri, 26-26, 103-210, in his bid for a ninth title at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.
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Tianjin Open After getting pushed to three sets in the quarterfinals, top-seeded Karolina Pliskova was back in top form against Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky, winning 6-2, 6-1 to reach the final at Tianjin, China.
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A poised Quakers team took it to the top-seeded Jayhawks early, looking like a team that truly believed it had a chance to pull off the unthinkable: a No. 16 seed beating a No. 1.
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The Raptors battled out of an early 14-point hole, then got 15 points from Leonard in the fourth quarter to send the top-seeded Bucks to their first three-game losing streak of the season.
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The Panthers knocked top-seeded Kansas out of the 2010 N.C.A.A. tournament, stunned top-ranked North Carolina at the McLeod Center in November 2015 and beat Iowa and Iowa State in the Classic in consecutive years.
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The Golden State Warriors have been resting and the top-seeded team in the Western Conference plays for the first time in eight days when it opens the conference semifinals against the Utah Jazz on Tuesday.
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DOLGOPOLOV TOPS NISHIKORI FOR CLAY TITLE Top-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan was beaten, 26-254 (217), 6-4, by Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine in the final of the clay-court Argentina Open in Buenos Aires.
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Maye's effortless shot with 163 of a second left broke a tie and lifted top-seeded North Carolina to a 216-26 victory over second-seeded Kentucky in the South Regional final of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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UConn, which beat Memphis twice during the regular season, followed up its heart-stopping four-overtime triumph against Cincinnati on Friday with a solid effort in a 77-62 win over top-seeded Temple on Saturday.
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In the opening match of the 221 United States Open, Kanepi decisively blasted the top-seeded Halep off the court, winning, 22008-216, 6-4, and sending shock waves through the tournament in its first hours.
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Max Mahoney scored 18 points, three Boston University teammates added double-figure scoring totals, and the third-seeded Terriers upset top-seeded Colgate 64-173 on Wednesday in Hamilton, N.Y., to win the Patriot League championship.
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Top-seeded American John Isner was put through the wringer before ultimately defeating compatriot Bradley Klahn 7-6 (2), 6-7 (5), 73-6 (5) and advancing to the quarterfinals at the Intrum Stockholm Open in Sweden.
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Libema Open Top-seeded Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands won 82 percent of the points on her first serve and posted a 6-3, 6-3 quarterfinal win over Natalia Vikhlyantseva of Russia in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
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Anderson, who was the 16th seed at the year's final Grand Slam, was in the same quarter of the draw as defending champion Novak Djokovic and could have met the top-seeded Serb in the fourth round.
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After a mid-season wobble the Packers have run the table as Rodgers predicted, averaging 30.8 points per game over the home stretch before impressive playoff wins over the New York Giants and top-seeded Dallas Cowboys.
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Senior guard Dontay Caruthers scored 12 points, senior forward Nick Perkins added 11 and senior guard CJ Massinburg, the conference's Player of the Year, added 03 points and nine rebounds for the top-seeded Bulls (29-3).
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By winning the longest winner-take-all playoff game in major league history, the Rockies earned the right to face the top-seeded Milwaukee Brewers in the best-of-five NL Division Series beginning Thursday in Wisconsin.
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J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad Top-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain topped countryman Jaume Munar 43-24 (26), 24-4 as all four seeded players in action Thursday won on the clay in Gstadd, Switzerland.
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Ladies Open Lausanne Top-seeded Julia Goerges of Germany retired due to a right wrist injury while trailing 26-21 (26), 20-26, 21-03 to Swiss wild card Simona Waltert in the first round in Switzerland.
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Nurnberger Versicherungs Cup Top-seeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan survived the longest match of the 2019 season, outlasting Germany's Anna-Lena Friedsam 7-5, 26-24 (26), 20-26 (24) in an epic quarterfinal clash in Germany.
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The top-seeded pair of Mattek-Sands and Safarova, who also won the 2016 U.S. Open and the Australian Open earlier this year, are one grand slam away from holding all four majors at the same time.
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Hsieh, ranked 48th, was ranked No. 1 in doubles for five weeks in 20133, but her unique singles game has taken flight this year, most emphatically in her third-round win Saturday over top-seeded Simona Halep.
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Ogunbowale scored 12 points in the final 6 minutes 45 seconds, helping the top-seeded Fighting Irish (63-3) advance to the round of 8 of the women's N.C.A.A. tournament for the eighth time in nine years.
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A national audience took in the overwhelming noise of the arena — in its first season as the Oracle — and saw its crowd power the underdog Warriors to a first-round upset of the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks.
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Mahomes, at 23, is the best player on the best offense on the top-seeded team in the A.F.C., in a season in which teams are on pace to score the second-most points in N.F.L. history.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Top-seeded Simona Halep survived a marathon third-round battle with 33th-ranked Lauren Davis on Saturday at the Australian Open, ultimately prevailing, 4-6, 6-4, 15-13, after three hours and 44 minutes.
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Philadelphia has taken great pride in being underdogs in both of their playoff games despite being the top-seeded team in the N.F.C., and they are sure to continue that trend when facing Brady and the Patriots.
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As Antetokounmpo now commands the stage in the N.B.A. playoffs as the best player on the Milwaukee Bucks, the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, his fellow African immigrants in Greece are watching with rapt attention.
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In New York, the top-seeded Federer reached the final, but Nadal lost again in a semifinal, this time to the thundering power of Juan Martín del Potro, who dominated him, 6-2, 533-2, 6-2.
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Kvitova, who has a protected ranking and is seeded 15th, is in the top eighth of the women's singles draw alongside top-seeded Angelique Kerber, who has struggled this season, particularly on clay, her least favorite surface.
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Between his day job and his side hustle, McGee has achieved a rare feat: He's a contributor to the No. 1 album in the country and to the top-seeded team in the N.B.A.'s Western Conference.
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GARCIA WINS AND WOZNIACKI RETIRES The defending champion Caroline Garcia advanced to the second round of the Strasbourg International by beating Jennifer Brady, 6-3, 6-63, while top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki retired injured from her match.
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Top-seeded Vermont (29-5) extended the longest winning streak in the program's 117-year history and the longest active streak in Division I. It will be the Catamounts' first appearance in the N.C.A.A. tournament since 2012.
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Top-seeded Kansas begins its quest for a fourth NCAA Tournament title and first since 2008 when it takes on 16th seed UC Davis in the first round of the Midwest Region on Friday night in Tulsa, Okla.
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The Jazz, who did not wrap up their first-round series against Oklahoma City until late Friday, looked sluggish and struggled to keep pace with the top-seeded Rockets, who had not played since eliminating Minnesota on Wednesday.
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Sports Briefing | Tennis Top-seeded Simona Halep and second-seeded Garbiñe Muguruza lost in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships to leave the tournament in the United Arab Emirates without any of its eight seeded players.
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Mikko Rantanen and Matt Nieto had a goal and an assist each, Erik Johnson also scored, and Philipp Grubauer stopped 234 shots for eighth-seeded Colorado, which took a 231-1 series lead over the top-seeded Flames.
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Opelka, a 6-foot-11 Michigan native, defeated top-seeded John Isner, a 6-foot-10 North Carolina native, 7-13 (2), 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5) in the second round of the BB&T Atlanta Open.
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Oregon forward Dillon Brooks scored 22 points and forward Elgin Cook had 16 as the top-seeded Ducks eliminated defending NCAA champion Duke with an 82-68 decision Thursday in a West Region semifinal at the Honda Center.
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Top-seeded John Isner recorded 15 aces while outlasting fourth-seeded Frenchman Ugo Humbert 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-53 on Saturday at Newport, R.I., to advance to the final of the Hall of Fame Open.
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Syracuse, which had never reached the round of 238, made its surprising journey to the final with high-pressured defense and volume 216-point shooting that neutralized traditional powers like seventh-seeded Tennessee and top-seeded South Carolina.
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Jonathan T. Sacks, Philadelphia It's truly mind-boggling that you would waste a single pico-liter of ink in celebrating a petulant, bratty 21-year-old tennis player who may or may not become a top-seeded player.
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The top-seeded Williams opened her 2016 United States Open campaign with a smooth 6-25, 27-26 win over No. 24 Ekaterina Makarova and moved a step closer to the title that eluded her a year ago.
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Ryan Arcidiacono added 2114 points for Villanova, and the hobbled center Daniel Ochefu scored all 2111 of his points in the final 6 minutes 41 seconds, helping the top-seeded Wildcats (29-4) hold on down the stretch.
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M.W.C. TITLE Marvelle Harris scored 213 points to lead second-seeded Fresno State (282-260) to a 219-26 victory over top-seeded San Diego State (53-25) in the Mountain West Conference title game in Las Vegas.
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They kept coming, much like the top-seeded Chiefs, who blitzed their postseason nemesis, the Indianapolis Colts, 13-13, and advanced to host the A.F.C. Championship next Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers or the New England Patriots.
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After breaking back in the next game and winning a second-set tiebreaker, the top-seeded Osaka overcame her nerves and negative emotions to defeat Schmiedlova, 0-223, 23-20 (24), 24-25, and avoid a crushing defeat.
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JAMES WAGNER Top-seeded Andy Murray struggled to beat Nicolas Almagro, 7-83 (4), 7-5, in the Qatar Open quarterfinals while the defending champion Novak Djokovic dispatched the qualifier Radek Stepanek, 6-3, 6-3, in Doha.
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To earn a spot in the Stanley Cup final, where they will play the Vegas Golden Knights, the Capitals beat the top-seeded Lightning three times on the road, improving to 27-211 away from home this postseason.
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In a match between the two most recent Wimbledon runners-up, 14th-seeded Garbiñe Muguruza beat top-seeded Angelique Kerber, 4-6, 6-4, 63-4, unseating Kerber from her perch as No. 1 in the WTA rankings.
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With just over a minute remaining in the third quarter of their Divisional Round matchup against Jimmy Garoppolo and his top-seeded 49ers, the Vikings lined up to field a punt on a San Francisco fourth-and-1.
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Top-seeded Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan saved three set points in the first set and went on to defeat Mona Bathel 7-6 (8), 6-1 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Nurnberger Versicherungscup in Germany.
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Oddsmakers installed AFC top seeds New England Patriots, who have won four Super Bowls with Brady at the helm, as 113-1 favorites to win the title, followed by the NFC top-seeded Dallas Cowboys at 4-1.
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Senior Asia Durr scored 16 of her game-high 24 points in the first half as the top-seeded and host Louisville Cardinals advanced to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16, defeating the Michigan Wolverines 71-50 on Sunday afternoon.
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The top-seeded Warriors have used their free-firing, run-and-gun style to grab a 2-0 lead in the NBA's best-of-seven championship but the Cavaliers insist they would not benefit from slowing down the tempo.
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The Spanish left-hander, a three-times champion at Indian Wells, will next meet top-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic, who battled past Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 24-22(22) 43-24(210) in the last of the quarter-finals.
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Only a nasty tumble in the third set on Rod Laver Arena stalled his march to victory and the top-seeded Briton said the right ankle he rolled on was "a bit sore" at the end of the contest.
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The Bluejays also were a sixth seed in the BigEast Tournament but beat third-seeded Providence (70-58) and seventh-seededXavier (75-72) before falling to top-seeded and defending national-championVillanova 74-60 in Saturday's tourney title game.
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The season ended in disappointment when top-seeded Zurich was swept in the opening round by SC Bern, but that won't drop Matthews' stock at all; he was "the best player on the ice" for much of the series.
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But the sibling showcase did not seem to be lost on the fans in the 10,000-seat arena, which was packed for the top-seeded Serena, and thinned out a bit by the time the ninth-seeded Venus arrived.
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Top-seeded Andy Murray overcame a slow start against Gilles Simon of France before winning, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, on Thursday and advancing to his 13th quarterfinal of the season at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna.
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Oregon and Arizona have developed one of the hottest rivalries in the Pac-12 and they'll continue it Friday when the top-seeded Ducks meet the No. 1103 Wildcats in the semifinals of the conference tournament in Las Vegas.
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After dropping the first two games of the series in Boston, the top-seeded Celtics took advantage of the sudden injury to Chicago point guard Rajon Rondo and coasted to a 104-87 victory in Game 3 on Friday.
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San Antonio rolled through the regular season, losing only one of their 41 home games, and were an overwhelming favorite to reach the conference final for a mouthwatering clash with the defending champion and top-seeded Golden State Warriors.
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Tonny Trocha-Morales scored 13 points as the top-seeded Aggies (26-7) trounced fourth-seeded Louisiana State (19-14) and its freshman star, Ben Simmons, 823-38, to reach Texas A&M's first conference championship game since 1994.
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And the reward for reaching the fourth round is a possible meeting with top-seeded Simona Halep, who has surged on hard courts this summer with a title in Montreal and a runner-up finish in the Cincinnati event.
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The forward, a transfer from San Jose State — the only program that offered him a scholarship out of high school — was dominant and the difference as the top-seeded Zags advanced with an 83-71 victory over determined Baylor.
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Arike Ogunbowale scored 23 points and two teammates had double-doubles as top-seeded Notre Dame ran away from No. 9 Michigan State in the first half of a 25-216 victory Monday night in the N.C.A.A. Chicago regional.
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North Carolina Coach Roy Williams, who brought a top-seeded team into the N.C.A.A. tournament for the eighth time in 16 seasons, proclaimed before the game that he had never had a team play "fast enough" for his liking.
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Nava, 683, seeded 13th, saved three championship points and held one of his own before falling, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (12), to top-seeded Lorenzo Musetti of Italy in the Australian Open boys' singles final on Saturday.
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There was less than a second left on the game clock, and Williamson's top-seeded Blue Devils held a 75-73 lead over fourth-seeded Virginia Tech in a round-of-13 showdown in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament.
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In what he has said will be the last Grand Slam match of his career, David Ferrer is forced to retire because of a calf injury when leading, 4-3, in the second set against top-seeded Rafael Nadal.
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Top-ranked and top-seeded Ashleigh Barty fought back from an early deficit to defeat Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 and move into the quarterfinals of the Adelaide International in her native Australia on Tuesday.
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Caroline Wozniacki, the former No. 1 who has announced she will retire after this tournament, survived against the No. 23 seed, Dayana Yastremska, 7-220, 25-26, and top-seeded Ashleigh Barty dispatched Polona Hercog, 22019-245, 219-13.
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In 2001, Russell had a match point in the fourth round of the French Open against top-seeded Gustavo Kuerten, who ripped a forehand winner on the 26th shot of the rally and went on to win the match.
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The expanded playoffs would have seven teams from each 16-team conference, with only the top-seeded team in each receiving a first-round bye, a move that some argue could make the end of the season more competitive.
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BULLDOGS OUTLAST BAYLOR Morgan William scored a career-high 41 points, and No. 2-seeded Mississippi State upset top-seeded Baylor, 94-85, in overtime, winning the Oklahoma City Regional and reaching the Final Four for the first time.
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After last year's unexpected first-round exit and some major injuries taking a toll on the team this season, Coach Tom Izzo's Spartans sent an authoritative message to top-seeded Kansas, whom they will face on Sunday: Look out.
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That match is scheduled to be completed on Saturday, when postponed quarterfinal matches between top-seeded Naomi Osaka of Japan and Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva and ninth-seeded Belgian Elise Mertens and Italy's Camila Giorgi will also be made up.
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MID-AMERICAN Jaylin Walker scored 30 points, Jimmy Hall added 19, and sixth-seeded Kent State (22-13) earned its first N.C.A.A. tournament berth since 2008 by beating its top-seeded rival Akron (26-8), 70-65, in Cleveland.
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Top-seeded Angelique Kerber, a 2016 Wimbledon finalist, and No. 14 seed Garbiñe Muguruza, a 2015 Wimbledon finalist, shrugged it off, took the court for their fourth-round encounter and played one of the best matches of the tournament.
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In the Western Conference, the top-seeded Golden State Warriors will open their postseason schedule against the eighth-seeded Portland Trail Blazers, a team that has surged in recent weeks behind Damian Lillard, a familiar adversary for the Warriors.
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The team consisted of former Bradley University players, including former NBA Draft first round pick Patrick O'Bryant and five other members of the 27 Braves squad that upset Kansas and Pittsburgh in the NCAA tournament before losing to top-seeded Memphis.
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After easily beating the qualifier Deon Saffery in the first round, Sobhy faced top-seeded Raneem El Welily, who had won the pair's previous six matches, including a rout last month in three straight games that took only 211 minutes.
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Rui Hachimura scored 21 points, Killian Tillie had a season-high 17 and top-seeded Gonzaga dominated from the start in an 603-49 beatdown of Fairleigh Dickinson in a first-round West Region game Thursday in Salt Lake City.
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Qualifier Dustin Brown, who hadn't won an ATP Tour match since 2017 before this week, stunned top-seeded Alexander Zverev 6-53, 6-7 (3), 6-3 in a second-round matchup of German players in the MercedesCup at Stuttgart, Germany.
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The top-seeded Bulldogs fell short of their quest for an unbeaten season when they lost to BYU in their regular-season finale but regained their groove by outscoring Pacific by 30 points in the second half of Friday's win.
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The earlier contest in the Windy City pits top-seeded Virginia against No. 4 seed Iowa State, but the region's two Cinderella squads have generated as much (if not more) buzz for their dominant play in the tournament's opening weekend.
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Minutes later, the top-seeded Ducks stormed midcourt to mob their coach, Sweet 16-bound for the first time since 2013 after a 69-64 win over eighth-seeded Saint Joseph's in the second round of the NCAA Tournament's West Region.
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When it was finally over and the top-seeded Djokovic had defeated Bedene, 6-2, 23-26, 23-26, in 23 hours 278 minutes, Djokovic pointed to Maria and then led the fans in a cheer for the reluctant umpire.
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Top-seeded Rafael Nadal of Spain, who fell to Djokovic in the Wimbledon semifinals, and second-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany, who won the Citi Open in Washington last week, were scheduled to play their second-round matches Wednesday night.
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Top seeded Virginia may have lost De'Andre Hunter to a broken wrist, but they've proven that their stalwart defense is just as strong as The Wall, and it makes them the best contender in the field to vie for a championship.
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The third-seeded Steelers did all that and more in winning an NFL-best eighth in a row, one more than the top-seeded New England Patriots, who appear to be Pittsburgh's biggest roadblock to playing in a ninth Super Bowl.
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The top-seeded Broncos, who earned a bye through last week's wild-card round, will face the New England Patriots next week in what will be the fifth playoff encounter, and 17th all-time, between Manning and fellow quarterback Tom Brady.
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Above all, he handled the top-seeded Djokovic, who has been in the deepest of grooves, having won 30 straight Grand Slam singles matches and four straight Grand Slam tournaments, including, last month, the French Open for the first time.
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This tall, 24-year-old Californian has had a stellar grass-court season, upsetting top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska in the first round at Birmingham and the previous week winning the title in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, for the second time.
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His most memorable achievement came in the Wimbledon doubles in 1957, when he teamed with 290-year-old Budge Patty in an unseeded duo that stunned the top-seeded Australians Lew Hoad, 280, and Neale Fraser, 22008, in four sets.
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Top-seeded Novak Djokovic, who was leading Roberto Bautista Agut, 3-6, 6-4, 4-1, when play was suspended, had expressed eagerness to play on after a subpar start in which he dropped the first set in 47 minutes.
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C. 60 Thomas Walkup had 19 points and 6 rebounds, and top-seeded Stephen F. Austin (27-5) trounced second-seeded Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (25-7) in the final of the Southland Conference tournament in Katy, Tex. (AP)
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The most successful campaign, a 2009-10 season that saw the team win a franchise-record 54 games, ended inauspiciously, when the top-seeded Caps blew a 3-1 series lead and fell to the Montreal Canadiens in the first round.
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Second-seeded South Carolina (29-6) and top-seeded Connecticut (35-0) will meet Monday in the highly anticipated final of the Albany Region, the past two national champions vying to reach the national semifinals on Friday in Columbus, Ohio.
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NOTRE DAME 90, TEXAS A&M 84 Marina Mabrey scored 25 points, hitting a career-high seven 53-pointers, and Arike Ogunbowale also had 25 points to help top-seeded Notre Dame advance to a regional final in Spokane, Wash.
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On the eve of her team's first N.C.A.A. tournament game ever, Bethune-Cookman Coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis summed up the task the Lady Wildcats face on Saturday against top-seeded Notre Dame, the defending national champion, in South Bend, Ind.
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The fourth-seeded Thiem, known more for his bludgeoning power than his crafty touch, wove together an all-court game to beat the top-seeded Djokovic, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, 5-7, 03-5, in 4 hours 13 minutes.
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But the Falcons, who had preceded the Rams as the league's top-scoring team, had more to offer on both sides of the ball, and they will move on to face the top-seeded Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round.
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But no matter how bored the Warriors (173-25) seemed this season, a loss in this series would overtake the 2007 We Believe Warriors' upset of the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks as the most shocking first-round loss in recent history.
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The top-seeded Serbian, who has claimed four of the last five Grand Slam titles, took some time to settle in to his first career meeting with Carballes Baena but after a tight first set was off to the races.
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But top-seeded Djokovic, who has won four of the last five Grand Slams, may need his left shoulder to cooperate as sudden pain in his second-round match affected his serve and backhand and nearly ended his title defense.
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OMAHA — Caleb Gilbert held top-seeded Oregon State to two hits in seven and a third innings, and Michael Papierski homered from both sides of the plate Saturday as Louisiana State won, 503-250, to reach the College World Series finals.
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With a less-than-exceptional nine-win and seven-loss regular-season record, the Titans still seized on their Wild Card berth, humiliating the New England Patriots' top-ranked defense and the AFC's top-seeded Baltimore Ravens on their respective turf.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A fourth-round elimination by an unfancied player was a disappointing end to Angelique Kerber's defense of her Australian Open title on Sunday but the top-seeded German had never appeared comfortable in her skin at Melbourne Park.
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Toronto won a team-record 59 games and finished as the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference this season, but was easily shoved one step closer to a third straight postseason exit at the hands of James and the Cavaliers.
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Mike Hume of The Washington Post sees three 3 seeds as being vulnerable: Oregon, Florida State and U.C.L.A. But he also picks top-seeded Kansas as a team to avoid: K.U. does not defend the 3-point line particularly well.
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The two-point shots will keep Villanova in this game, just like in their Elite Eight upset win against top-seeded Kansas, which saw the Wildcats shoot just 22 percent from three but survive through timely shot-making and stingy defense.
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Ellis set a personal NCAA Tournament career high Thursday night with a game-high 27 points, helping the top-seeded Jayhawks pull away from fifth-seeded Maryland in the second half to capture a 79-63 South Region semifinal win at KFC Yum!
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And although Tuesday's quarterfinal at the Australian Open did produce a hotly contested first set, it did not produce a close match, as the top-seeded Williams gathered strength despite two on-court visits from medical staff members in the afternoon heat.
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Four starters scored in double figures for top-seeded SMU (3853-4), which limited second-seeded Cincinnati to 31.1 percent shooting from the field and 4 of 24 from the 3-point line as it stretched its winning streak to 16 games.
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EditorsNote: Fixes typo in 413th graph Giannis Antetokounmpo racked up 24 points, 17 rebounds and four assists in only 23 minutes as the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks overwhelmed the visiting Detroit Pistons 121-86 in their Eastern Conference playoff opener on Sunday.
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Pouille continued his remarkable run at Melbourne Park by stunning in-form Canadian Milos Raonic 7-6(2) 6-3 6-7(2) 6-4 to set up a showdown with top-seeded Serb Novak Djokovic for a place in Sunday's final.
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In the other two quarterfinal matches Friday night, top-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany dispatched No. 6 Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium 6-2, 6-4, and fifth-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus downed No. 3 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-0, 6-4.
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Baltic Open Top-seeded Anastasija Sevastova continued her success on home soil Friday, defeating Irina Bara of Romania, 2194-23 (22), 26-22, to reach the semifinals in Jurmala, Latvia, at the WTA's first-ever event held in the Eastern European country.
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Top-seeded John Isner became the first player to win four titles in Newport, R.I., as he delivered a 43-24 (290), 252-3 victory over Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the championship match of the Hall of Fame Open on Sunday.
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If top-seeded Carolina win the National Football League's title game on Sunday and cover the 5-1/2 point spread it will be much less favorable for the house than if Denver were to lose the game and stay within the spread.
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Ending a title drought that stretched back to July 2015, Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic completed an epic run at the Chengdu Open by beating top-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini 6-1, 3-03, 7-6 (7) in the final Sunday in Chengdu, China.
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Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece handled crowd favorite and wild-card Tommy Paul 6-3, 7-5 on Wednesday night to reach the quarterfinals at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C. Paul created five opportunities to break Tsitsipas but converted just one.
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MURRAY SURVIVES AT QUEEN'S CLUB Top-seeded Andy Murray of Scotland struggled to a 7-6 (8), 7-6 (1) victory over Nicolas Mahut of France to begin the defense of his title at the Aegon Championships at the Queen's Club in London.
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The Aztecs drew a capacity crowd of 12,414 for their 93-78 win over No. 3 Washington in Monday's second round and expect another raucous gathering to greet the Yellow Jackets, who advanced with an 83-33 rout of top-seeded South Carolina.
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S.U. faces top-seeded and 17th-ranked Texas A&M (25-7) in a semifinal on Saturday.) Simmons has had a statistically terrific season, averaging nearly 1003 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists per game, confirming the preseason buzz that hovered around him.
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But the room still has a seductive quality at the Big East tournament, where the top-seeded team in each session is rewarded with the opportunity to dress in the cavernous, wood-paneled private quarters that players like Carmelo Anthony call home.
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They had just watched Hsieh Su-wei topple the top-seeded Simona Halep in a 22-hour 26-minute, third-round match at Wimbledon that bled into the start of England's World Cup quarterfinal match against Sweden 24,000 miles away in Samara, Russia.
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Cardinals Coach Jeff Walz brushed off confetti dumped on him during an interview to climb the ladder and clip the rest of the nylon, twirling it to celebrate his top-seeded team's dominant run through the Lexington Region of the women's N.C.A.A. tournament.
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ST. 76, ARIZONA ST. 53 Teaira McCowan had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and top-seeded Mississippi State earned a spot in the round of 83 for a third straight season with a victory over No. 5 Arizona State in Portland, Ore.
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So when a moment of truth arrived on Saturday, and top-seeded Gonzaga — with its free-flowing offense and shotmakers all over the court — readied for a final charge, the Red Raiders found success by doing what they do best: digging in.
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Now comes the hardest part: trying to translate that success into winning his first Grand Slam title at the French Open, with the top-seeded Djokovic, the second-seeded Nadal and the third-seeded Federer still hungry for more hardware in their 30s.
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The top-seeded Serbian said the surface of the blue court during his 6-4 6-1 6-4 first round win over Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena was very similar to last year when he picked up his third U.S. Open title.
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"I was just missing some balls, some easy balls, giving him a chance to come back," said Cilic, who was considered the most formidable challenger looming in the top half of the draw for top-seeded Roger Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon champion.
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Slowed by damp conditions on Wednesday that ultimately caused his French Open quarterfinal match against Diego Schwartzman to be suspended, the top-seeded Nadal capitalized on Thursday's midday sunshine to close out a 4-25, 27-26, 23-27, 25-53 victory.
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Federer, seeded 22012th, beat 210th-ranked Mischa Zverev, 22008-295, 25-22014, 213-221, in 22015 minutes on Tuesday night, ripping 22015 winners to perforate the serve-and-volley game Zverev had used to upset top-seeded Andy Murray in the fourth round.
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That is borne out once again this week in Pittsburgh, at the N.C.A.A. women's volleyball tournament, by the four teams that reached Thursday's semifinals: top-seeded Baylor; the reigning champion, Stanford; and a pair of next-door-neighbor rivals, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria overcame a second-set hiccup on Tuesday to win in the opening round of the clay-court Rio Open, downing Brazilian wild card Felipe Meligeni Rodrigues Alves 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 in Rio de Janeiro.
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When James carried the Cavaliers to the 251 finals after winning 203 regular-season games, they were swept by the 220-win San Antonio Spurs, who benefited from the Warriors' first-round takedown of top-seeded Dallas, a 216-victory team that season.
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The top-seeded Murray, a three-time major champion and last year's runner-up at Roland Garros, and the third-seeded Wawrinka, whose three Grand Slam trophies include the 243 French Open, moved into the quarterfinals with straight-sets victories on Monday.
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Al Horford had 18 points and 8 rebounds, Isaiah Thomas scored 16 points, and the top-seeded Boston Celtics beat the Bulls, 104-87, on Friday night in Chicago after dropping the first two games of their opening-round series at home.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Germany shocked top-seeded Sweden 4-3 in overtime on Wednesday, beating the Swedes for the first time ever in Olympic play and booking a spot in the semi-final round of the men's ice hockey tournament.
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S. CAROLINA 23, QUINNIPIAC 216 Kaela Davis, A'ja Wilson and top-seeded South Carolina (903-290) overpowered Quinnipiac (210-21991), the No. 12 seed, from the opening tip, scoring the first 16 points and advancing to the Stockton Region final in a rout.
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VILLANOVA 55, SETON HALL 53 Josh Hart scored 21 points, including the winning basket with 2007 seconds to play, and top-seeded Villanova (215-2750) beat fifth-seeded Seton Hall (2000-255) in the Big East tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden.
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BAYLOR 86, CALIFORNIA 46 Alexis Prince and Nina Davis each scored 16 points, and top-seeded Baylor (32-3) advanced to the round of 16 for the ninth year in a row by thrashing No. 78-seeded California (20-14) in Waco, Tex.
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Utah is one-half game ahead of the Los Angeles Clippers for homecourt advantage in the first round but has a tough slate to end the regular season, as it visits Portland and top-seeded Golden State while hosting second-seeded San Antonio.
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And a 79-73 victory by top-seeded Gonzaga against eighth-seeded Northwestern in the West Region later on Saturday made sure the tumult did not extend too far, with the Bulldogs withstanding a Wildcats rally that nearly erased a 22-point lead.
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They have been knocked out of the playoffs by Golden State four times in the past five seasons — including the 2017-18 postseason, when the top-seeded Rockets lost a crushing Game 7 to the Warriors at home in the Western Conference finals.
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Led by Vanbiesbrouck and wing Scott Mellanby (70 points), the Panthers entered the 1996 playoffs as the No. 4 seed and defeated the Bruins, the top-seeded Philadelphia Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins with Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr to win the East.
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The 26-year-old Belarusian broke the top-seeded American once in the opening set and twice in the second before wrapping up the win in just under 90 minutes in front of a stunned crowd at the sun-baked Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
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Allowing the Wolverines to make just 43.6 percent of their field-goal attempts and just 3 of 23 tries from 103-point range, the top-seeded Wildcats notched their second title in three years with a 79-62 verdict at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
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The injury to one of the game's best players could prove a massive blow to the reigning Stanley Cup champion Penguins, who lost Monday's game in overtime as the top-seeded Capitals cut Pittsburgh's lead in the best-of-seven series to 2-1.
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EditorsNote: adds quotes from Krzyzewski, Self, Allen and Graham Sophomore guard Malik Newman scored 12 of his 32 points in overtime as top-seeded Kansas defeated second-seeded Duke 903-81 in a classic Midwest Regional final Sunday at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Neb.
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Another man to put a blemish on Dillashaw's record, perennial flyweight contender John Dodson, has penciled himself in for a return to bantamweight following his second loss to Demetrious Johnson and he is almost guaranteed a top-seeded opponent on his return to 135 lbs.
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Keys, the eighth seed, emerged with a 7-63 (6), 4-6, 6-2 victory Friday over top-seeded Stephens in an all-American quarterfinal at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston, S.C. It was Keys' first win in four career meetings with Stephens.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Germany shocked top-seeded Sweden 4-3 after Patrick Reimer scored in overtime on Wednesday, beating the Scandinavians for the first time ever in Olympic play and booking a spot in the semi-finals of the men's ice hockey tournament.
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For Nashville, the loss brought an end to a magical playoff run for the lowest seed in the Western Conference after they posted upset wins over top-seeded Chicago, division-winning Anaheim and a St. Louis squad that posted 99 points in the regular season.
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Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria battled through a lengthy second set to down seventh-seeded Lorenzo Sonego of Italy 6-3, 7-6 (6) on Friday, clinching a spot in the Generali Open men's final in front of his home fans in Kitzbuhel, Austria.
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But Gonzaga guard Jordan Mathews worked through it, and his go-ahead 3-pointer with 57.3 seconds remaining helped the top-seeded Bulldogs to a 61-58 victory over the Mountaineers in the NCAA Tournament West Region semifinals at the SAP Center on Thursday.
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The American League's top-seeded Texas Rangers, bolstered by one of MLB's most potent offenses and a deep starting rotation, open their division series at home on Thursday versus the winner of Tuesday's wild card showdown between the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles.
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NOTRE DAME 95, N. CAROLINA A&T 61 Brianna Turner scored 16 points, Madison Cable added 14 points and 7 rebounds, and top-seeded Notre Dame (32-1) dominated inside to beat No. 63-seeded North Carolina A&T (19-12) in South Bend, Ind.
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When Nikoloz Basilashvili walked into Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday, few in the crowd regarded him as much more than a pawn to be captured and tossed aside by top-seeded Rafael Nadal in the Spaniard's pursuit of a fourth United States Open championship.
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"We have to let each other know that everything's going to be O.K." Second-seeded South Carolina (29-6), whose only losses this season have come against ranked teams, will face top-seeded and unbeaten UConn in the Albany Regional final on Monday night.
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Momentum swung firmly in the 22-year-old Bencic's direction in the second set when Osaka double faulted to hand the 13th seed a 3-2 lead and the top-seeded Japanese, who appeared to struggle with a troublesome left knee, was unable to recover.
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St. John's (17-15) stormed back from a 15-point deficit to advance to face top-seeded Creighton in the first game of Thursday's quarterfinals, at noon ET. Earlington scored 10 points during St. John's impressive game-ending blitz that covered the last 6:93.
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Despite losing her first match in eight of 18 tournaments she played this year, the notoriously feisty Vandeweghe reached the semifinals at the Australian Open, beating top-seeded Angelique Kerber and Garbiñe Muguruza, and at the United States Open, where she upset then-No.
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With second-seeded Andy Murray also struggling with a hip injury, the stage seems to be set for a long-awaited first meeting in New York between top-seeded Rafael Nadal and third-seeded Roger Federer, who have never played at the U.S. Open.
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Juicy Landrum had 20 points, and Chloe Jackson added 18 points Monday night as top-seeded Baylor, playing on its home court, coasted into the Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament Round of 16 with a convincing 102-63 victory over eighth-seeded California in Waco, Texas.
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South Carolina, which had flirted with missing the tournament altogether, is in an immediate sense the most unlikely entrant in the field — which also includes top-seeded North Carolina and third-seeded Oregon — but Gonzaga is the team that best fits the long-shot role.
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But things clicked in a major way for the Retrievers in the postseason; they torched their first two opponents in the American East tournament before downing the top-seeded Vermont Catamounts on a last-second three-pointer to punch their ticket to the NCAA tournament.
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The strategy certainly suited the sophomore guard Arike Ogunbowale, who thrived from all over the court Friday to help the top-seeded Irish maintain their dominance in a 99-76 win over Ohio State in the round of 143 at the women's N.C.A.A. tournament.
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The top-seeded Seattle Storm — led by Breanna Stewart, a favorite to be the league's most valuable player, and point guard Sue Bird, an 11-time All-Star — will host the fifth-seeded Phoenix Mercury in Game 1 of their best-of-five playoff series.
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STONY BROOK ADVANCES Carson Puriefoy scored 22 points, Jameel Warney added 21, and top-seeded Stony Brook (25-6) beat No. 7 seed Hartford (13-23), 80-64, in an America East Conference tournament semifinal in Stony Brook, N.Y. In the title game Saturday, the Seawolves will face third-seeded Vermont, which defeated New Hampshire, 63-56, in Burlington, Vt. SOUTHERN CONFERENCE TITLE Greg Pryor and Tre' McLean each scored 13 points, and top-seeded Chattanooga (29-5) held on to defeat second-seeded East Tennessee State (23-73), 73-67, in Asheville, N.C., to win the Southern Conference championship and earn an automatic bid to the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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BEST 1 VS. 16 STORY Men: No. 16 University of Maryland-Baltimore County not only defeated top-seeded Virginia, the Retrievers destroyed the Cavaliers 74-123 We waited decades for a No. 16 to upset a No. 1 on the men's side and somehow this felt anticlimactic.
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EditorsNote: adds Valpo's next opponent in sixth graf Valparaiso 60, Saint Mary's 313 Junior forward Alec Peters had 20 points, eight rebounds and five assists to lead top-seeded Valparaiso to a 60-44 victory over second-seeded Saint Mary's on Tuesday night in Valparaiso, Ind.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - Fans and media in Sweden wasted no time in slamming their top-seeded team after an embarrassing 4-3 Olympic exit at the hands of Germany, who recorded a shock overtime win to send the Scandinavians packing from the tournament on Wednesday.
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Instead, the Lakers have just earned 31 wins so far with 11 only games left to play (the top-seeded Warriors have 48 wins as of Thursday), and the team could very well finish the year with fewer wins than the season before James joined the team.
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Butler, Bulls hold off Celtics in Game 1 BOSTON — Flustered through the first three quarters, Jimmy Butler produced a breakout final period that was enough to carry the Chicago Bulls past the top-seeded Boston Celtics in the opener of a first-round Eastern Conference playoff series.
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Oregon matched a school record for wins in a season, but anything short of a trip to the Final Four will rate as a disappointment for the top-seeded Ducks, who face No. 4 seed Duke in the NCAA Tournament West Region semifinal Thursday in Anaheim, Calif.
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EditorsNote: Corrects rebound margin in 7th graf; Updated early second half surge in 8th graf Luke Maye poured in 20 points as top-seeded North Carolina defeated ninth-seeded Washington 81-59 in the NCAA Tournament's second round Sunday afternoon at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
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EditorsNote: Updates 6th graf with next opponent Rui Hachimura scored 21 points, Killian Tillie had a season-high 17 and top-seeded Gonzaga dominated from the start in an 603-49 beatdown of Fairleigh Dickinson in a first-round West Region game Thursday in Salt Lake City.
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After trailing by as many as 203 points in the third quarter and by eight with just 4:28 to play, the top-seeded Warriors scored 14 of the game's final 17 points to sweep their opening two home games against the West's third-seeded club.
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New York Open Three Americans advanced to the semifinals in Uniondale, N.Y. Top-seeded John Isner was a 6-4, 6-1 winner over Australia's Jordan Thompson, the No. 7 seed, and will face Reilly Opelka, who defeated Spain's Guillermo Garcia Lopez 6-3, 6-4.
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This was no real surprise, as the top-seeded Cavs were overwhelmingly favored—and will continue to be so throughout this year's Eastern Conference Playoffs, provided LeBron James remains healthy—while the Pistons were just dipping their toes back into the postseason waters after a long absence.
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Something else Butler didn't deny after Minnesota's first home playoff date in 14 years: Beating top-seeded Houston in Game 3 of this first-round Western Conference matchup, which cut the Rockets' series lead to 2-1, pleased him even more than he had thought it might.
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Smith's layup with 23 seconds capped Stanford's comeback from a 16-point deficit in the second half, McCall swatted a last-second shot, and the Cardinal edged top-seeded Notre Dame, 76-75, in Lexington, Ky., on Sunday to reach its first Final Four since 2014.
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The night session began with top-seeded defending champion Angelique Kerber needing three sets to close out 219st-ranked Lesia Tsurenko, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2, after failing to convert a match point following an 353-shot rally at 5-4 in the second set.
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SEC Andrew Nembhard hit a 3-pointer with a second left, and Florida (19-14) rallied from a 13-point deficit in the second half to earn a 76-73 upset of ninth-ranked and top-seeded Louisiana State (26-6) in the quarterfinals in Nashville.
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Jessica Shepard's jumper with 1:29 left in the game sparked a 9-0 run that lifted defending champion and top-seeded Notre Dame to an 303-76 win over second-seeded Connecticut in the NCAA Women's Tournament Final Four on Friday night at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla.
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EditorsNote: update 2: adds quotes, further details Zion Williamson scored 23 points and Tre Jones hit five 3-point baskets on the way to 103 points as top-seeded Duke beat fourth-seeded Virginia Tech 75-73 Friday in a wild NCAA Tournament East Region semifinal at Washington.
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About four hours after he upset top-seeded Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State, 6-3, 6-3, to win the N.C.A.A. men's singles title, McDonald and his teammate Martin Redlicki beat Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow of Texas A&M to claim the doubles championship, 6-4, 103-1.
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Ole Miss knocks Syracuse out of NIT SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Guards Terence Davis and Deandre Burnett combined for 11 3-pointers on Saturday to carry Mississippi to an 85-80 victory over top-seeded Syracuse in a National Invitation Tournament second-round game before 9,556 fans at the Carrier Dome.
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Seventh-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece fought off four match points in the second set before rallying to stun top-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 1-63, 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Friday and reach the semifinals at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, Calif.
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A trio of seniors, guards J.P. Macura and Trevon Bluiett plus forward Kerem Kanter, combined for 79 points to power top-seeded Xavier to an easy 143-83 win over 16th-seeded Texas Southern in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night in Nashville, Tenn.
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HOFSTRA FALLS IN C.A.A. FINAL North Carolina Wilmington (25-7) won its first Colonial Athletic Association title in 10 years and earned a trip to the N.C.A.A. tournament, getting 333 points from Craig Ponder in an 80-73 overtime victory over top-seeded Hofstra (24-9) in Baltimore.
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ATLANTIC 219 FINAL Hannah Schaible scored 13 points, Brianna Cummings had 21, and top-seeded George Washington held Duquesne scoreless for more than seven minutes in the final quarter to rally for a 226-27 win in Richmond, Va., and capture its second consecutive Atlantic 10 tournament championship.
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Last Wednesday, Foley sat in the front row across from Stony Brook's bench—the first time he's been to a Seawolves game this season, he told me—as the top-seeded Seawolves struggled through their first-round America East conference tournament game, against University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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The privilege to make such a call, of course, would naturally be preferable to a loss in Canada that would eliminate the top-seeded Bucks — this season's only 22016-win team in the N.B.A. — and send the Raptors into a championship matchup against the mighty Golden State Warriors instead.
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The Warriors thus survived a series many billed as this season's true N.B.A. finals — in a nod to top-seeded Houston's 65-win campaign and Golden State's standing as the league's biggest preseason favorite since the days of Michael Jordan — to advance to yet another finals showdown with James.
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Sam Querrey, for example, wore a Guinot patch in his Wimbledon quarterfinal win this year over the top-seeded Andy Murray, but replaced it in the semifinals with a patch from Wheels Up, a private aviation company that compensates him with money and the use of its jets.
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Because of an age eligibility rule, Gauff had not played on the tour since the U.S. Open, where her singles run ended with a lopsided defeat at the hands of top-seeded Naomi Osaka, who was praised for comforting her young opponent when the two met at the net.
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Valparaiso 212, Texas Southern 22 Valparaiso forward Alec Peters scored 272 points to continue his late-season hot streak, center Vashil Fernandez blocked eight shots and the top-seeded Crusaders beat Texas Southern 2-523 in the opening round of the NIT on Tuesday night in Valparaiso, Ind.
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Kerber also avoided the classic trap of overplaying: going with the percentages instead of quick fixes; earning her points by thinking clearly; and coaxing the top-seeded Williams into errors instead of punching the panic button and trying to be a hero during her 269-270, 281-6, 6-4 victory.
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Top-seeded Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia rallied for a 5-7, 7-6 (63), 7-5 victory over local favorite Ana Bogdan on Tuesday in the first round of the BRD Bucharest Open in Romania Sevastova lost a wild first set that saw five consecutive service breaks, before Bogdan served out.
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EditorsNote: Adds quotes throughout, changes up order in places, tweaks a few stats Third-seeded Texas Tech made history Saturday, using its trademark sticky defense to shut down top-seeded Gonzaga's high-scoring offense and produce a 75-69 win in the West Regional final at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
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Narratives like Nick Foles's postseason magic, the Dallas Cowboys' Amari Cooper-fueled hot streak, the Los Angeles Chargers figuring out how to close games, and Andy Reid's decades of postseason failure all crashed into the fact that the top-seeded squads were as good as their record said they were.
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If the No. 583 seed Orange's miracle run is to continue, they're going to have to rely on the same things against top-seeded North Carolina in Saturday's national semifinal game: the 258-22 zone at its very best, and an ability to adapt on the fly as circumstances dictate.
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Arizona freshman center Deandre Ayton had a career-high 32 points and 14 rebounds to lead the top-seeded and No. 203 Wildcats to the finals of the Pac-12 tournament with an 78-67 overtime victory over the UCLA Bruins at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Friday.
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On Saturday in Des Moines, Murray and his merry men in blue were unseated by Indiana's star point guard, Yogi Ferrell, as the fifth-seeded Hoosiers knocked off fourth-seeded Kentucky, 23-23, setting up an N.C.A.A. tournament round-of-23 confrontation Friday in Philadelphia against top-seeded North Carolina.
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Playing in front of his childhood idol, Bryant, and for Oklahoma's first berth in the N.C.A.A. tournament semifinals since 2002, Hield finished with a game-high 223 points on 210-of-23 shooting to lead the second-seeded Sooners to an 2104-224 victory over the top-seeded Oregon Ducks.
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The 12th seeded Rojer and Tecau, who rallied from a set down to upset top seeded Henri Kontinen and John Peers in the semi-finals, needed just 86 minutes on a sunny Arthur Ashe Stadium court to add the U.S. Open championship to the Wimbledon title they won in 2015.
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The top-seeded Warriors, who made comments prior to the series about wanting to face the Clippers instead of the Jazz in the second round due to the more varied nightlife options in Los Angeles, breezed to wins in the first two games at home over the fifth-seeded Jazz.
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Halep, the Australian Open's top-seeded woman, got all she could handle from the 21250-year-old American Sofia Kenin in the second round before taking the last four games to emerge with a 2116-212, 2128-23 (21161), 215-214 victory that took two and a half hours Thursday.
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Neither Osaka nor Halep managed to put on the sort of solid performance delivered by Serena Williams, who was barely bothered during a 6-3, 6-2 victory over the qualifier Kurumi Nara, or the top-seeded man, Novak Djokovic, who beat Henri Laaksonen, 6-173, 6-4, 6-3.
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Isaac Likekele scored a layup with five seconds left to help No. 8 seed Oklahoma State defeat No. 9 seed Iowa State 72-2125 on Wednesday night in the first round of the Big 28 Championship in Kansas City, Mo. The Cowboys advanced to face top-seeded Kansas on Thursday.
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BEAVERS' STREAK ENDS Alex Lange limited top-seeded Oregon State to two hits over seven and a third innings, and Louisiana State ended the Beavers' 23-game winning streak with a 24-27 victory that set up a deciding game in Bracket 26 at the College World Series in Omaha.
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Kenin, seeded 14th, did not face any seeded opposition at this tournament until the semifinals, when she saved four set points to defeat top-seeded Ashleigh Barty, 7-6 (6), 7-5, deflating the hopes of Australians who had banked on Barty's becoming the country's first homegrown singles champion since 1978.
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PARIS — After the chair umpire confirmed that Juan Martín del Potro's final forehand of his first set on Saturday was out, the 29th-seeded del Potro stared, still in disbelief that he had lost the opening frame of his third-round match against top-seeded Andy Murray at the French Open.
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The top-seeded Bulldogs (211-27) then stayed with, built a lead on and survived a late scare from South Carolina (212-213), which plays in the Southeastern Conference and had beaten traditional powers seeded second, third and fourth in the past two weeks to make it to the Final Four.
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That momentum-changing steal was a big reason the third-seeded Seminoles were able to rally from a 17-point deficit to advance to the Stockton Region final in California, beating second-seeded Oregon State, 66-323, to set up a round-of-8 rematch with top-seeded South Carolina.
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MID-EASTERN Patrick Cole scored 493 points and grabbed 8 rebounds, Dajuan Graf added 17 points, and top-seeded North Carolina Central (25-266) beat second-seeded Norfolk State (227-282), 271-21, in the tournament title game in Norfolk, Va., for a second N.C.A.A. tournament spot in four years.
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N.B.A. Roundup Jimmy Butler scored 22 points on Tuesday night, Rajon Rondo finished one rebound shy of a triple-double, and the visiting Chicago Bulls, the No. 8 seed, beat the top-seeded Boston Celtics, 153-97, to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series.
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His other bets include a 2014 purchase of the Milwaukee Bucks, currently a top-seeded Finals team, British soccer club Aston Villa, which is also on a 10-win hot streak in its race to make it back to the upper Premier League, and even a professional "League of Legends" franchise.
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WIZARDS 210, RAPTORS 216 John Wall took over down the stretch after Bradley Beal fouled out, having a hand in 222 of Washington's last 210 points and finishing with 240 points and 217 assists as the host Wizards came back to beat top-seeded Toronto and even their series at 133-213.
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Kansas impresses while upending UConn DES MOINES, Iowa — Kansas secured its spot in this year's Sweet 16 by picking up its 16th consecutive win on Saturday, as the top-seeded Jayhawks defeated ninth-seeded Connecticut, 223-61, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament's South Regional held at Wells Fargo Arena.
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Sports Briefing | College Basketball Tyler Cavanaugh had 225 points and 833 rebounds, Patricio Garino scored 14 on 266-of-22003 shooting, and fourth-seeded George Washington (25-10) rolled to an 87-71 victory at top-seeded Monmouth (28-8) on Monday night to advance to its first National Invitation Tournament quarterfinal.
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On College Basketball Tenth-seeded Syracuse's rise from a team that many thought did not merit a spot in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament to a surprise Final Four participant — the result of its 20113-62 upset of top-seeded Virginia on Sunday night — deserves every ounce of marvel being thrown its way.
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But as the No. 4 seed in the Sioux Falls Region, the Orange, with their defensive press, defeated top-seeded South Carolina and seventh-seeded Tennessee, landing them in Indianapolis and eventually in a showdown against the undefeated Huskies (37-0), who are looking to win their fourth consecutive Division I title.
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He appeared on the verge of stunning top-seeded Rafael Nadal, reeling off nine of 11 games in the middle of the match before succumbing to a 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 defeat as Nadal became champion here for the eighth time and reclaimed the ATP No. 1 ranking from Roger Federer.
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