At one point they ranked 29th in the 30-team league, but Peter Laviolette, who won the Stanley Cup in 2006 with a lightly regarded Carolina team, took over as coach in December.
A member of the lightly regarded Europcar team, he is enjoying an improbable run at the head of the Tour, having worn the yellow jersey since July 10.
Wild saw it as a chance to live with his best friend and join a lightly regarded Russian snowboarding team looking to make splash in Sochi.
Pregame media coverage of the contest focused on North Carolina's rejection by the Bowl Alliance, the Tar Heels' new coach, and questions about whether a lightly regarded and unranked Virginia Tech team could compete with a top-five North Carolina squad.
These Yankees were a gritty bunch, an easily likable group because they had been so lightly regarded, unlike past Yankees teams that were littered with All-Stars at every position.
The Americans, lightly regarded because they sent their second team - the first team is preparing for next month's World Championships at Madrid - won a total of 49 medals in swimming, 15 of them gold.
Alas, the lightly regarded World Cup squad also will avoid the World Cup knockout round.
Rajon Rondo, Boston's lightly regarded starting point guard, had four of his team's first six baskets as the Celtics shot out to a 14-3 lead.
The Costa Rican team, which had been under tremendous pressure to win after dropping a game to lightly regarded Barbados -- in fact, their players had been attacked on the streets by angry fans this week -- fought back, but it seemed as if the United States would be able to kill the game and abscond with a point.
Los Catrachos, as the Honduran team is known, split their first two qualifiers, losing to Panama at home before beating lightly regarded Trinidad and Tobago.
The private right will certainly not be lightly regarded.
