In 2009, the league failed to send their champion.

So She had sent Her champion to drive them back into the hills?

Of 22 Division I basketball conferences, 13 determined their league champion with a single-elimination tournament, while seven leagues sent their regular-season champion to the NCAA tournament.

The Ivy League is the only Division I conference that does not hold a conference tournament, instead sending their regular-season champion.

This new conference negotiated an agreement with the Tournament of Roses to send its champion to the Rose Bowl Game which effective with the 1961 Rose Bowl.

He heard the Philistine giant Goliath challenge the Israelites to send their own champion to decide the outcome in single combat.

In 1968 the conference began a long association with the Orange Bowl, sending its champion annually to play in the prestigious bowl game in Miami, Florida.

Each of them sent its champion to the national tournament.

First of all, Kinnick's Iowa teams only met Michigan twice, in 1937 and 1939, and at that time, the Big Ten did not send their champion to the Rose Bowl.

Paulson has received several offers for him to race again, but seemed inclined today to call it a career and send his champion to duty as a stallion.