Chapter Ninety-Two: The Final Four
"Ah!!!!!", as soon as the whistle at the end of the game sounded, Lu Qiujian was thrown into the air by the players on the bench, and Coach Thompson also changed his previous unsmiling style, hugged and cried with assistant coach Blake, I didn't expect that Princeton would also enter the final four one day many years later!
The reporters were even more blown up, it was legendary enough that the five rookies in Michigan led the team to the Final Four, and this time Princeton did not even have a scholarship player in the lineup, what should this be called?
After some celebrations, Coach Thompson finally remembered that there was a press conference, and hurriedly rescued Lu Qiujian from the crowd.
"How do you feel about breaking the NCAA single-game three-point record this year?"
"Are you ready to sign up for the draft?"
"We saw you chatting with Yao Ming before the game, is he inviting you to join the national team?"
went to the locker room to wash up and change clothes, as soon as Lu Qiujian came out, the reporters bombarded wildly regardless of the order, this guy has appeared in front of the media only a handful of times, and this can be regarded as seizing the opportunity!
"Syracuse University is a great team, Cameron is also a great player, he is destined to be one of the top players in the league! We were just a little lucky to win the game!", first a compliment made Boham and Anthony feel better, and then Lu Qiujian began to answer personal related questions, "Yao Ming just said that he would invite me to dinner after the game, and didn't talk about anything else, I just want to play well in the next games now, and I won't think about other issues for the time being."
It sounds like a lot, but unfortunately the reporters thought about it carefully and found that he actually didn't say anything, and when the shortest time stipulated in the press conference arrived, Lu Qiujian used the excuse of having dinner with Yao Ming and running away.
"I'm sorry, Nat, Yao Ming asked me to go to dinner, I'm afraid I can't go to you right now! I guess you don't want to be targeted by reporters, right?", Lu Qiujian comforted Natalie as he walked towards the place where he had made an appointment with Yao Ming.
When they arrived at the underground parking lot, they got into Yao Ming's car, and the two of them ran to the city, of course, their little action could not be hidden from the reporters at all, and immediately several cars followed.
When he arrived at a high-end Chinese restaurant in the center of New York, Yao Ming had already booked a private room here; I don't know what the two said, Yao Ming's expression on his face when he came out was a little regretful, which triggered countless associations among the reporters.
Without celebrating, the team rushed to New Orleans for the final four, where they were scheduled to face the Texas Longhorns on April 5.
When he saw the video of Longhorn's game, Lu Qiujian couldn't help but laugh, how many games he played, and finally met an opponent who was shorter than me! Longhorn's organizational defender T-J-Ford was only 1.83 meters tall, three centimeters shorter than Lu Qiujian, which made him quite happy. However, being able to lead the team to the final four with such height proves that this guy has his own strengths, T-J. Ford has top speed and incredible jump, and has previously scored 15 points and 7.7 assists per game.
One of the players to watch out for on the Longhorns is their interior player, James Thomas, who is more physical than Patrice, with a double-double of 11 points and 11 rebounds per game in previous games.
However, these two players can't compare with Carmelo Anthony after all, and the Longhorns are not as strong as the Syracuse University Oranges, and after the victory over Syracuse, Princeton's players are full of confidence, and under the leadership of Lu Qiujian, they played a 120% ability, showing Princeton's traditional running and passing skills to the fullest, and took the initiative from the beginning of the game.
Even if T-J-Ford tried his best, he couldn't easily break through Lu Qiujian's defense, and when it was his turn to defend, he retreated under Lu Qiujian's back.
The team's core players were restricted, and Longhorn also lost the last chance, and after chasing closely for nearly 20 minutes, Lu Qiujian hit three consecutive points again to pull the score away, and Longhorn saw that the general trend had raised his hand to surrender.
In the end, the score of the game was 95:84, and the two sides contributed a wonderful offensive battle for the fans, and the Princeton Tigers had the last laugh!
They then watched the match between the University of Kansas and the Marquette Golden Eagles, where Dwyane Wade once again beat Hinrich's Kansas, and the Marquette Golden Eagles and the Princeton Tigers joined forces to reach the final.
Two days later, under the watchful eyes of tens of millions of spectators across the country, the NCAA finals were grandly opened, perhaps because he had been overdrawn in the first two games, or because Lu Qiujian's defense was too strong, and Dwyane Wade did not play at the extraordinary level of the previous games.
Although Robert Jackson, the No. 2 scorer, hit one hit after another under Patrice's defense, the core players were limited, and the Marquette Golden Eagles could only watch Princeton widen the gap point by point.
Although Wade's performance was better in the second half, Lu Qiujian also began to exert his strength on the offensive end, and the two sides formed a situation of mutual explosion, but Marquette Golden Eagles still couldn't narrow the difference.
In the final five minutes of the game, all the fans in the Super Arena in New Orleans stood up, and they couldn't wait to witness the greatest miracle in NCAA history!
Holding the ball to break through Wade's defense and enter the inside, when Daniel on the outside came in to make up for the defense, Lu Qiujian passed the ball to Ray who came off the bench, and Ray did not live up to his name, adjusted his posture and hit two points, and the difference was widened to double digits.
The goal also extinguished Marquette's last fighting spirit, and Wade gave up resisting as he watched the few minutes on the timer at the top of the basket.
"Congratulations on your victory, but I won't give up so easily the next time I meet you in the NBA!", Wade said to Lu Qiujian as the audience counted down.
Well, when he was about to respond, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and the teammates who rushed over frantically blocked Lu Qiujian's words.
"Lui, we are champions, we won the NCAA championship !!!", Patrice hugged Luciujian like crazy and said nonsense, and Gardson, Spencer, Weir, Ray and other teammates also couldn't cry.
After 20 hard-fought games, the Princeton Tigers won the NCAA men's basketball title with a total victory, much to the surprise of countless predictors.
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