Since 1985, when the 64-team tournament field was established, 45 top seeds have made it to the final four.
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Otherwise, they lose control of their fate, praying that another team can pull the upset that backs them into the tournament field.
The tournament field includes five of the world's top-10 players, including No. 1 Safina and her fellow Russian, second seed Vera Zvonareva.
Dominating the tournament field are baseball-rich countries in Latin America (Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) and Asia (Japan and South Korea).
It's merely a predictor of who will make the tournament field.
What remains in the 2013 NCAA Tournament field is an assortment of non-traditional teams with high seedings, including Wichita State (No. 9), Oregon (No. 12), La Salle (No. 13) and Florida Gulf Coast University (No. 15).
As the NCAA Tournament narrows its field, the Environmental March Madness Tournament will do the same, until there is a winner to crown.
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The last full-field tournament of the US season, the Chrysler Championship has attracted a number of big names eager to either nail down their places in the season-ending Tour Championship next week in Atlanta or find some form ahead of that event.
However, this season's Twenty20 champions can expect an invite to 2009's money-spinning tournament - unless they field any players with links to the "rebel" Indian Cricket League.
None disappointed their network bosses, hammering home the selling point that the beauty of the tournament lies in its deep field and potential Cinderella stories.
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Usually around half of the 140-strong field at a tournament will be cut at the halfway stage, but Parnevik's 18th-hole miss meant that the weekend ranks were swelled to a number not seen since the 1981 Travelers Championship.
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It is a very competitive and popular field, and our tournament gives universities a way of getting at an objective credential that is based on a fairly diverse set of judging.
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Both surged through the field - Mickelson equalling a tournament record with a score of 30 over the first nine - but neither could force their way into a play-off won by Argentina's Angel Cabrera.
And Tiger Woods absolutely -in his first tournament of the year - absolutely lapped the field.
After a dramatic 86-foot eagle putt five holes earlier and a birdie on the last hole, he is six under par for the tournament, tied for eighth place in a field of 132 players.
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Its four tournament opponents shot just under 29 percent from the field (61 of 211) and a minuscule 15.4 percent (14 of 91) from behind the arc.
Wally Judge led the Scarlet Knights in the win over DePaul by tying a Big East tournament record by going 9 for 9 from the field and finishing with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
The competition between Wales and England for the event mirrors their rivalry on the field in the 2012 European Championship qualifying tournament with the senior teams due to play their Group G matches next year in Cardiff on 26 March and at Wembley on 6 September.
On the field, Capello's plans for the tournament have not been helped by a serious an ankle to Chelsea left-back Cole.
And Ramsey, whose brother Josh attends the school, certainly shone on the football field, with Mr Thomas fondly remembering a tournament at Pontllanfraith.
The fact that you do not know your blind side from your break down will have no bearing on your enjoyment of the tournament, because much of the action will be off the field.
Overall, Syracuse's four tournament opponents have combined to shoot just 28.9 percent from field (61 of 211) and 15.4 percent from 3-point range (14 of 91).
Several times in this tournament they have found themselves in crunch games, particularly in the field, and have had to produce a winning performance from somewhere.
None of the top-10 finishers was inside the world's top 200, but the field is expected to be stronger next year when the tournament moves to a new Robert Trent Jones Junior-designed course Bro Hof near Stockholm.
Few teams have ever taken the field in a crunch match at a major international soccer tournament faced with as many obstacles as England will encounter in this industrial outpost in the eastern corner of this country.
The tournament was such a success that the number of soccer teams in England more than doubled during the next decade, and by 1891 so many clubs had begun to enter that tournament organizers decided to institute a qualifying round to cut down a field that had mushroomed to 160 entrants.
Each week the worst-scoring half of the field is eliminated after the second day of the four-day tournament and earns nothing.
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Of Watson's chasers, Goggin has not won a tournament since 1999, and was only able to take his place in the field as a late reserve.
On a recent morning, a dozen teenage girls at the current cricket field were bowling and batting under a blazing sun ahead of a tournament in Uganda.
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