Wiktionary
vb. 1 (&lit back into English) 2 (context idiomatic English) To rely upon another team's loss in order to advance to the post-season, especially in the context of one's own team's loss.
Usage examples of "back into".
He imitated a carp also, and I twisted over him and back into the airlock, clutching for the safety bar.
I cleared the field and fell back into route march with the rest of the platoon and felt much lighter.
The medics stretched my back back into shape, handed me a bottle of basic painkillers, and told me to get back to it.
I was urged back into line, and just managed to see the 2cm cable strung at shin height in time to trip over it rather than slam my legs into it.
I used my feet to push the attached torso the other way, thus dislocating it with a satisfying rubbery feel, and bashed my head back into the face of the person trying to get a stranglehold on me.
Someone interrupted my satisfaction by grabbing me, so I slammed a foot into his head, then drove my other heel back into his face.
He used a spare crew truck and rescue gear as cover to go back into the power station and bring it down a second time.
However, the battle had changed and it took me a few seconds to get back into the groove.
It came in stereo, as I was still transmitting, and had just coded back into the onboard net.
As I returned to the warehouse, I saw tens of vehicles and vertols and hundreds of troops in urban gear, and faded back into the spectators to watch.
I rigged fuses to a five-kilo demolition block and shoved it far back into the case.
The two patrolmen were taking the shortest way back into the city centre, along the state highway that parallels the A14 autostrada from Ancona and the Adriatic coast, looping through the unlovely dormitory suburbs to the north of Bologna to connect with the spinal cord of the Ai.
But the concept itself was solid, as he proceeded to explain in rapid Italian to the press corps when he floated back into the large private room that Delia had booked.
Waiting until the third pizza and its plate exploded against the door to the lavatory, he stepped back into the corridor.
She shoved the bottle back into the fridge and did not slam the door, aware of Katy and King both staring at her, their ears a little back, not sure what was going on.