However, after a narrow 21-20 win against the Giants, the Cowboys regained their dominating form, trouncing the Arizona Cardinals ( who were playing their home games at Sun Devil Stadium ) 37-13 on Christmas night at Arizona as part of Monday Night Football, and then cruising through the playoffs with convincing wins against the Eagles and the Packers.

The former arena football Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Pioneers, who played eight seasons at the Mohegan Sun Arena ( formerly Wachovia Arena ) in Wilkes-Barre Township had made the playoffs in their last six years of existence and contended for the ArenaCup VIII in 2007 and the ArenaCup X in 2009, their final year, but lost both times.

With a new home in Uncasville and two former UConn Huskies on the roster, the Sun entered the 2003 season looking to build upon a 2002 campaign in which they missed the playoffs due to a tiebreaker with Indiana.

The Sun swept the second-seeded Sting in the first round of the playoffs, and was slated to face Detroit in the Eastern Conference Finals.

In the playoffs, the Sun flew to the finals, sweeping the Detroit Shock and the Indiana Fever.

In the playoffs, the Sun would quickly sweep the Washington Mystics.

In the playoffs, the Sun's youth and inexperience caught up to them ; the New York Liberty won game three on the Sun's home floor and for the second straight year, the Sun failed to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Sun, plagued by a late-season injury to all-star Asjha Jones missed the playoffs for the first time since moving from Orlando.

The Sting played the same Sun in the playoffs, and were swept out in 2 games.

They played the same Sun team in first round of the playoffs.

After making the playoffs, the Sun crushed the Buffalo Storm in the semi-finals, then defeated the Houston Dynamo to take the league title.

The Wings cruised to the playoffs, where they faced the Nashville Predators.

The Wings again faced the Phoenix Coyotes in the first round of the playoffs, this time sweeping them 4 – 0 — making them the only team in the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs to sweep the first round — and again moved on to play the Sharks in Round 2.

A memorable regular season game was in 1988, when the Giants faced off against the Jets in the last game of the season, needing a victory to make the playoffs.

Once again in the playoffs, and just like in 1997, the Giants faced the Florida Marlins in the NLDS.

Entering the playoffs, the Heat faced the Orlando Magic in the first round, blowing the Magic out in the first two games.

In the playoffs the Magic were seeded number 3 because of tiebreakers and faced the Philadelphia 76ers.

In the playoffs, they faced the Milwaukee Bucks team in the first round.

After defeating Cleveland in the first round of the playoffs, Philadelphia faced Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the second round.

In the first round of the playoffs, Philadelphia faced Indiana yet again.

In the 1985 playoffs, Detroit won its first-round series and faced the defending champion Boston Celtics in the conference semifinals.

In the first round in the playoffs Spurs faced the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 1, The Spurs fell short 101 – 98.

They swept the playoffs up till the NBA Finals, and faced the Detroit Pistons again.

From 1999 to 2004 the clubs ' rivalry was often considered the premier rivalry in the NBA, and each time the clubs faced each other in the playoffs the winner advanced to the NBA Finals.

In the first round of the 2011 playoffs, the Blackhawks faced the top-seeded Vancouver Canucks.

In an interesting playoffs, all the bottom seeds won in the first round so the Ducks faced the seventh seed Colorado.

In the first round of the playoffs, they faced arch-rival Edmonton.

They were seeded eighth in the Western Conference playoffs and faced the Detroit Red Wings, one of the favorites in the Western Conference to win the Stanley Cup.

Trailing three-games-to-two against the Phoenix Coyotes in the opening round of the 1997 playoffs, the Ducks faced elimination in Game 6 of the series.

Whenever they did make the playoffs, they faced the near-certainty of having to get past the Boston Bruins or Montreal Canadiens to make it to the conference finals.

The Whalers went to the playoffs for the final time in 1992 behind Jimmy Roberts ' coaching, but faced the very heavily favored Montreal Canadiens in the Adams Division Semifinals.

During the playoffs, the Pirates faced the Montreal Maroons in a best-of-three, semi-final Stanley Cup playoff series.

In the playoffs, the Sens faced off with the Philadelphia Flyers and were heavy underdogs, however, Lalime was unbeatable, as he allowed only two goals as Ottawa defeated the Flyers in five games.

Both teams have found success and have faced each other in the ArenaBowl and playoffs numerous times.

As the second seed in the AFC, the Colts earned a first round bye, and faced Tennessee in the playoffs.

In the playoffs, the Magic defeated the Boston Celtics, Bulls, and the Indiana Pacers, advancing to the NBA Finals.

The Bulls entered the playoffs, and defeated the Indiana Pacers and the Atlanta Hawks in five and six games, respectively.

During the 2005 playoffs, they easily defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 4 – 1 and then rallied from a 2 – 1 deficit to finish off the Indiana Pacers, 4 – 2.

In the playoffs, the Spurs would battle the Indiana Pacers to the bitter end before falling in 7 games.

" However, in the playoffs the Spurs would fall to the Indiana Pacers in 6 games.

The loss of Wauters was felt as the team was swept two games to none by the Indiana Fever in the first round of the playoffs.

The Stars defeated the Texas Chaparrals 4 games to none in the first round of the playoffs, beat the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 3 in a fiercely contested semifinal series, and edged out the Kentucky Colonels 4 games to 3 in another fiercely contested series, this time for the ABA championship.

In the playoffs the Stars again defeated the San Diego Conquistadors in the Western Division semifinals, this time 4 games to 2, and went on to defeat the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 3 in the Western Division finals.

Kentucky recovered and made another championship run during the 1972 – 73 playoffs, but lost a physical series to the Indiana Pacers in 7 games, 4 games to 3.

After a torrid finish to the regular season, which saw them win 23 of 26 games, they ripped through the playoffs, and beat their nemesis, the Indiana Pacers, in a dominant 4 games to 1 victory to win the 1975 ABA championship.

The Colonels defeated their rivals, the Indiana Pacers, 2 games to 1 in the first round of the playoffs.

Indiana recorded 42 wins and qualified for the playoffs once again as the eighth seed, where they faced one of the hottest teams in the league at that time, the New Jersey Nets.

In the playoffs, Indiana gained revenge from the preceding season by sweeping Boston in the first round, before defeating the Miami Heat in the next.

Despite a pair of impressive back-to-back 4-0 wins over Indiana Invaders and Cincinnati Kings in the run-in-the last of which saw all four goals being scored by Daniel Revivo-Toronto's final day defeat to Michigan left them in third place in the Great Lakes division, squeaking into the playoffs on ' games won ' ahead of Des Moines Menace, but needing to negotiate a preliminary ' Divisional Round ' play-in game against Cleveland Internationals.

The Roughriders lost in the 1st round of the playoffs 3 games to 2 to eventual Clark Cup champion Indiana.

The Roughriders lost to Indiana in the 1st round of the playoffs 3 games to 2 just as they did the year before.

Only the ' 69 -' 70 Cougars managed to make the ABA playoffs but lost in the Eastern Division Semifinals ( first round ) to a much stronger Indiana Pacers team.

* Most points scored in one half, playoffs: 32 ( Game 4, 2003 Eastern Conference First Round vs. Indiana Pacers ).

During the 2010-2011 season, the Indiana Pacers advanced to the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2006 thanks to an end of the season win over the Washington Wizards coupled with a Charlotte Bobcats loss to the Orlando Magic.

In the 1972-73 season Hannum coached the Rockets to the 1973 ABA Playoffs but they lost in the first round of the Western Division playoffs to the Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1.

The Indiana Ice were their next opponent and were undefeated in the playoffs until the Stampede prevailed over them, again in overtime, to advance to the championship game against the host team of the event, the Waterloo Black Hawks.