Word: bracket
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...Harvard, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Win, and the Crimson’s in—to Sunday’s title game and, more than likely, the national tournament. Lose, and the team could easily be left out of the NCAA bracket...
...what really makes the tourney reach sporting Nirvana is the bracket. Filling out a bracket for the tournament gives fans a rooting interest for every game. Do games such as Creighton—Florida or Indiana—San Diego State sound interesting? They do when you’ve picked one of those teams...
...West faltered, and Sanchez walked away with the 3-9, 6-9, 9-1, 9-2, 9-4 victory. West advanced to semifinals with a pair of wins on Saturday over Trevor McGuinness and Hesham El Halaby. The Crimson’s other two competitors in the Potter Cup bracket were captain Verdi DiSesa and senior Niko Hrdy, but both lost in the opening round of competition. DiSesa bowed to Rochester’s Jim Bristow, 9-1, 9-1, 9-4, and Hrdy lost to Princeton’s Dave Letorneau. Both failed to advance in the consolation bracket...
...behind victory over Harvard’s Guruge in the finals of the Howe Cup two weeks ago, which had clinched the national championship for Princeton. Siebert had also knocked out the Crimson’s Katherine O’donnell earlier in the first round of the Consolation Bracket. Mashruwala was upset herself in the finals though, falling 9-2, 9-4, 10-8 by Perez and had to settle for 10th place. Harvard Sophomore Bethan Williams, a year after scoring one of the tournament’s biggest upsets, fell in a first round nailbiter to the Tiger?...
...September 1958, Bank of America tested its first 60,000 credit cards (later named Visa) in Fresno, Calif. Within a decade, Americans had signed up for more than 100 million credit cards. Today, the number tops 1 billion. African Americans were able to pull themselves into the middle-class bracket through the social gains of the civil rights movement, though a disproportionate number still live below the poverty line. (Read the 1974 TIME article "America's Rising Black Middle Class...