Playoff PAC points out that twice in the past three post-seasons a bowl game featuring a non-AQ conference team posted the second highest ratings.
As every college football fan knows, the Big Ten Conference traditionally sends a representative to play a Pac-12 Conference team in the Rose Bowl.
Johnson finished with 13 points for the Nets, who bounced back from a loss to Miami on Wednesday by beating another top Eastern Conference team.
Charleston Southern was just 9 of 28 from behind the arc and Nimley, who made the all-Big South Conference team, was just 1 of 7 from three.
Under the BCS system, a non-BCS conference team can play in a BCS bowl game if they win their conference and finish among the Top 12 in the BCS standings.
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With his first head coaching assignment he almost led his Mid-American Conference team to a BCS bowl bid after two years, missing only after a double-overtime loss in the season finale.
With the caveat that any MAC, Mountain West, Conference USA, or independent ranked in the Top 12 would be given preference over a super-conference affiliated team ranked above them that did not win its conference championship game.
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He was selected to the all-conference first team for a second straight year.
And you would logically say the other BCS team from the conference would be the team that played for the championship since it was the best team from its division.
No team from the Eastern Conference has played a team from the Western, and just six of the Islanders' games were televised nationally in either the U.S. or Canada (and three of those games were televised on Reseau des sports, a French-speaking channel headquartered in Montreal).
The additions make the ACC a 14-team conference with five members pilfered from the Big East.
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On the day of the press conference, the team should have been preparing to play its season-opening game.
It's a group that was led by sophomore guards Juan'ya Green and Antoine Mason, both conference first-team selections last season.
Rivera was surrounded by family and teammates when he made the announcement during a news conference at the team's complex.
Connecticut managed to outrebound the Orange 38-36, an impressive stat for the team that is 14th in the 15-team conference.
For the Illini, the win means a move out of 10th in the 12-team conference up into a ninth-place tie with Iowa.
In the span of 2011-12, Scott added the Universities of Colorado and Utah as members after initially exploring the possibility of a 16-team conference.
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The team confirmed Chudzinski's hiring with a release Thursday night and said he will be introduced at an 11 a.m. news conference at the team's facility in Berea on Friday.
That title, two Big East crowns and an all-conference first-team selection this season completes a resume he said made it easy for his son to move on to the next level.
The only problem with the addition of TCU besides geography is an unwieldy 17-team basketball conference.
Buffalo has fallen to 14th place in the 15-team Eastern Conference and needs to turn things around quickly.
Tortorella tersely ended his 90-second press conference, criticizing his team for playing poorly at a critical point of the season.
Notes: Chandler was chosen to the Eastern Conference All-Star team on Thursday, the first selection for last year's Defensive Player of the Year.
The vice president talked to President George W. Bush by phone for a few minutes, ate lunch and watched the press conference that his medical team held on television.
Because of Rajon Rondo's torn ACL, he will need to be replaced on the Eastern Conference All-Star team, and Hawks coach Larry Drew hopes Commissioner David Stern looks at Smith or Horford.
The Pittsburgh goalie stopped 34 shots and then stoned Rick Nash, Mats Zuccarello and Ryan Callahan in the shootout as the Eastern Conference's top team bounced back from a 6-1 loss to New York on Wednesday.
The Knicks actually trailed by 10 when Stoudemire entered in the first quarter, then went on to challenge the franchise-record victory margin of 48 points and kept alive Mike Woodson's chances of coaching the Eastern Conference All-Star team.
Note that each conference under this distribution system is assured of receiving at least 6 units annually (a scenario that would arise if a conference only placed one team in the tournament for 6 consecutive years, and their teams fail to win a single game).
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