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The Stanley Cup playoffs comprises four rounds of best-of-seven series; any team that wins the first four games of a playoff series would have accomplished a series sweep. The Stanley Cup finals have had 20 sweeps since it was expanded to a best-of-seven series in 1939. There were five sweeps in the 1990s, the most recent decade to have a sweep ...
Round-robin tournaments are also used in rugby union, curling and many amateur or lower-division basketball, football and hockey tournaments. In 1992, the Little League World Series went to a round-robin tournament in the first round, instead of single-elimination. In 2001, the tournament expanded to 16 teams and stayed with a round robin for ...
The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is an open-invitation, single-elimination tournament played each summer in the United States, with the stakes being a cash prize (the most recent tournament in 2024 had a $1 million purse going to the winners). The number of teams playing in the tournament has varied since its establishment, but in recent years ...
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[a] The game is similar to the basketball sport and is played in a self-rotating 3D court and is divided into three main modes: Tournament, 2-on-2, and Single. [5] In the tournament mode, the player goes against other teams in a tournament ; in the 2-on-2 mode, players compete in a basketball 2-on-2; in the single mode, the player competes in a ...
The Final Four in which the four teams (out of eight) with the best records qualify for the postseason playoff games was instituted in Season 56 (1993–94). Previously the postseason was a championship series between the top two teams, with the No. 1 seeded team holding the twice to beat advantage, i.e., they have to win only once to clinch the championship.
The 2014 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2013–14 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs defeating the two-time defending NBA champion and Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals. Kawhi Leonard was named NBA Finals ...
The word sweep is commonly used in North American sports such as baseball, basketball, cricket and ice hockey which have playoff or regular season series, to describe a situation where one team wins all the games in a series, for example, with a 4–0 victory in a best-of-seven series.