Testimony was in the team play the Bucks exhibited throughout much of the season and into the playoffs, first knocking off Orlando, three games to one, then coming back from a 3-2 definit in games to conquer Charlotte with a 104-95 vintory in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday.
Before the Spartans' top pair can talk about a championship, they must first knock off San Marino's Vivian Le and Monique Gandawidjaja in the semifinals.
I assumed they belonged to executives who earlier in the week had seen a third knocked off Hornby's share price, and must now be locked in strategy meetings, discussing the future.
The Pirates lost four senior starters after last season and were picked to finish eighth in the league's preseason poll; instead, Seton Hall wound up third, knocked off Marquette and Villanova late in the year and earned its fourth straight trip to the N.C.A.A. tournament.
In 2004, Calgary, as a sixth-seed, knocked off the third, first and second-ranked teams to get to the finals, where it faced the Tampa Bay Lightning, the top-ranked team from the east.
It was an unusual experience for a team that won 18-8 in the first round and knocked off No. 6 Stony Brook 8-4 in the second.
First, Louisiana State knocked off top-seeded Duke, a victory sealed when Tyrus Thomas went end to end for a mammoth dunk.
Mr. Hefer, 45, said he realized his nests were market-worthy when his first design was knocked off by a European manufacturer of outdoor furniture that produced it in plastic, an outcome Mr. Hefer viewed philosophically.
Sexton led all scorers with 25 points, dishing out a team-high six assists along the way, and his ninth-seeded Crimson Tide knocked off the eighth-seeded Hokies, 86-83, in a first-round game in the East region.
