And I told them that's usually what happens during a late-season surge and especially because the last three games had been won in overtime.

As for Mitchell, it is difficult to evaluate his late-season surge.

Goodrich, averaging 25.3 points, helped the team to a late-season surge.

They will need an improbable late-season surge to avoid missing the playoffs for the first time since 1999.

They struggled to avoid relegation for much of the 2008-09 Top 14 season, but a late-season surge brought them to ninth place and safety.

However they had seemed to have turned something around midseason, much like the previous year's late-season surge.

That victory was part of a late-season surge by the Patriots.

There is a general feeling in the Knicks' locker room that they are ready for a late-season surge.

Last year, we had a late-season surge that carried us.

Despite a late-season surge, those 10 games effectively cost them a spot in the post-season.