This is not -- personnel alone does not determine -- ask the Cleveland Cavaliers if personnel alone -- ask anybody, there are -- every team except the Lakers put together a team to win the NBA title, and only one did.
While the Big Ten has fared better the last two seasons, posting the second-highest winning percentage behind the Big East, the last two Final Fours featured only one Big Ten team. (Ohio State made it last year.) The last Big Ten team to win the national title was Michigan State in 2000.
So ended Edinburgh's outside hopes of becoming the first Scottish team to win the league title.
Lewis Hamilton will take up the escape clause in his McLaren contract at the end of the season if he fails to win the title or the team do not collect the constructors' championship.
Lacking a dominant big man after losing Alcindor to graduation the previous year, the team was not supposed to win the title game against Jacksonville.
"I'm excited, " said Liberty star Cappie Pondexter, who joined the team Sunday after helping Fenerbahce win the Turkish League title.
Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record for victories.
Albany became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title, and also set a school season record for victories.
The Albany men became the first team seeded lower than third to win the title and set a school season record with their 24th victory.
They will simply be the best team to win a supposed national title because they hail from one of the cartel conferences.
Atlantans were still buzzing from the excitement of the Falcons' first playoff win in eight years and the team's first title game appearance since 2005.
Anyone who watched the Heat's 100-67 victory in Saturday's Game 1 knows that the Heat are a determined basketball team eager to win a title, and the Knicks probably need a semester in Prague to find themselves.
Ibanez also featured in the 2002 Grand Slam winning team and helped France win the 2006 Six Nations title before leading them to victory in the competition again the following year.
The whole team deserves a chance to get the opportunity to win a title.
Schumacher was the first German to win the F1 title, in 1994 with team Benetton.
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It was not long before the future British Open champion started tasting success after teaming up with compatriot Charl Schwartzel to win his first title at the World Junior Team Championships in 2000.
United, meanwhile, became the first team in Premier League history to post 89 points and not win the title.
Gilbert sacrificed profits the past two years as he attempted to win an NBA title and convince James to re-sign with the team.
"I haven't seen a young team win an NBA title in the last 15 years, " he told the Associated Press last week.
If the Heat go on to win the title, it would be the lowest scoring output for a championship team's No. 2 scorer since 1954, when Jim Pollard of the Minneapolis Lakers contributed 12.3 points per game, according to Stats LLC.
Spain are bidding to win their fourth title in the most prestigious event in team tennis in five years but are without the injured Rafael Nadal.
The appointment finally ends Celtic's drawn-out bid to replace Strachan, who departed following the team's failure to win a fourth consecutive league title.
It also effectively helped Nicky Hayden, who got taken out by his team-mate Pedrosa that day, win the title by five points from Rossi.
Pitino, fresh off his team's 82-76 win in the title game over Michigan on Monday night, was sitting behind the Cardinals bench, trying to spur on the women's team.
There will also be highlights of the women's event in which Olympic Road Race champion Nicole Cooke was attempting to win the Commonwealth title, no easy task in an event which favours riders who can call on the support of team-mates to help them plot their way through the race.
"That's good, but I mean, again, I'm not in this for Coach of the Year, I'm in to try to see if we can get this team to the championship round to try to win a title, " Woodson said.
And Cardinals coach Rick Pitino, who said beforehand that his team needs to win their seven remaining games to claim the regular season title, was glad that his mercurial guard provided it.
The result means that victory over Reading on Tuesday would leave Chris Hughton's team needing just one point from their final three games to win the title.
"I had nothing to lose - or win - so I'm driving for the team, " said the Finn, whose title defence came to an end in Japan last week.
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