Sentence examples for ensuring high playoff from inspiring English sources
The spending sprees pushed both teams into the Eastern Conference's upper tier, ensuring high playoff seedings, low draft picks and large luxury-tax bills for the foreseeable future.
WEEK IN REVIEW Giants Close In on Playoffs The Giants made Tiki Barber the focus of their offense and defeated Washington, all but ensuring a playoff berth.
The Mavericks are far from ensuring another playoff series, but they staved off elimination Tuesday night with a dominating 103-81 victoverover the San Antonio Spurs.
Baltimore, in dropping to 9-6, could have ensured a playoff berth with a victory.
The way I see it -- there are five areas the Leafs need to excel at to ensure a playoff run. 1. 60 Games Out of Bernier.
Chicago needed a tie or a win to ensure itself a playoff berth, but fell short.
After that, the schedule is manageable enough to at least ensure a return playoff trip, if not the division title.
The Jaguars are 8-5 and lead the A.F.C. South, one game ahead of the Colts, who must win out to ensure themselves a playoff spot.
He laid out the situation ahead of the players: that they would ensure themselves a playoff trip by beating the Packers.
The July to November CFL season, designed to ensure the playoffs finish before Canada's harsh winters set in, forced the American teams to play the first half of the season in oppressive heat and the second half in competition with high school, college football, and the NFL.
