There's reason for optimism heading into the third week of the season. The current expanded playoff format has been in place since 1990. In the 14 seasons that have followed, 24 teams have started a campaign with at least two losses and eventually made the playoffs. Some even made deep playoff runs.
Best Answer: Similarities: their empires cover roughly the same time span. They both had very highly centralized political systems. They were both the most advanced, highly civilized societies in their region of the globe. Differences: the Roman Emperors had a senate that they had to deal with, and at times appease. There was no similar legislative body in China: the Emperors with due observance to tradition, ruled supreme. Rome was both a land and sea empire. China was only principally a land empire. The Roman Empire in the west at least, collapsed at the end of the 4th century. That of China, didn't succumb until the beginning of the 20th century.
The Tang Empire was like the Han Empire in foreign trade, land area, population, capital cities, and the beginning and end of the empires. The land area of the Western Han Empire and the Tang Empire was about the same. However, the Tang Empire didn't include the southern regions around Yunnan. This area was the territory of the Nanzhou Empire that had a capital near Dali.