Sentence examples for tournament debut from inspiring English sources

Shmona of Israel made its tournament debut with a 1-1 drat at Bilbao.

TAMPA, Fla .— Except for the final two seconds, the Kentucky freshman Brandon Knight would rather forget his N.C.A.A. tournament debut.

The freshman Alexis Jones added 11 points, 10 assists and 8 rebounds in her N.C.A.A. tournament debut.

South Dakota State, a former N.C.A.A. Division II powerhouse making its Division I tournament debut, finished the year 27-8.

ICELAND A major tournament debut is a huge achievement for a country with a population of 330,000.

Jeff Halpern scored the lone goal for Princeton (18-10-1), which was making its N.C.A.A. tournament debut.

For another, five of its top seven players — including three starters — made their tournament debuts the other day.

Seven teams are making their tournament debuts, Vermont and Wagner among them, demonstrating greater parity in college basketball.

RJ Barrett also had 25 points to give Duke two players with 20 points or more in their NCAA tournament debuts since Mark Alarie and Johnny Dawkins did it in 1984.

Both are struggling in their tournament debuts (combining to shoot just 1 of 15 in the first half) but they're too good as basketball players to let that happen two seasons in a row.

Our DAViD metric, the Data-Assisted Victory Detector for the NCAA tournament, debuted last year (click here for the full explanation of the method) and helps highlight which of these first-round upsets are not only the most likely to occur, but also which will provide the most value by differentiating your picks from rest of the pool.