"That's Carmelo Anthony!", as he entered the arena for field acclimatization, Patrice patted Lu Qiujian on the shoulder, pointed to a sturdy black player in his early two meters, with twisted braids, and said, "The most watched star player in the Eastern Conference!"

"Come on, our Lu isn't bad!", Gardson retorted, "Didn't you see the excitement of the reporters when we came in?"

As if sensing that someone was watching him, Anthony turned his head and looked at Patrice, who immediately put away his envy and raised his chin to glare.

Anthony saw a lot of provocative eyes like this, and was not provoked by Patrice, smiled and shook his head and followed his teammates past the Tigers, he had already recognized Patrice's jersey, an Ivy League team entered the tournament, destined to play soy sauce, since it was difficult to meet in the later games, why should he care!

Seeing Anthony leave, Patrice turned around and hugged Lu Qiujian, "You say, can we meet Anthony in the game?"

"Sixty-four into thirty-two, thirty-two into sixteen, sixteen into eight, you can meet him after three games, you only need to win three opponents, this is not a difficult thing!", Lu Qiujian said lightly, anyway, they have studied before, before Syracuse University, they will not encounter a very strong team.

After the opening ceremony, the game officially began, and as Patrice expected, in the opening game, the host Oklahoma Legades comfortably defeated the South Carolina State University Bulldogs with a score of 71-54 to the cheers of the audience, and Taki Gray was unstoppable on the inside.

"Hand him over to me in the next game and I'll show him what a tough inside line is!", Patrice pouted dismissively.

"I think you're jealous of his popularity, aren't you? But you're afraid you won't be able to enjoy this kind of treatment!, who made this someone's home field!", Will laughed as he straightened his bracers.

"Hmph, if you can't get the audience to like it, then let them hate it! I can't wait to get that guy down!", Patrice slapped the strong muscles in his chest.

"Although it is also a branch of the University of California, the Berkeley Golden Bears are not as strong as UCLA, and their previous games have relied on scoring guard Joe Sipp to play alone, as long as he solves the game, he can win!", Coach Thompson pointed on the tactical board in the locker room, "Lu, in addition to defending their playmaking guard Amit Tamir, you should also pay attention to making up for Will! Patrice, you are ready to block him on the inside!"

After a simple set-up, the game officially began, Patrice won the jump ball without dispute, Lu Qiujian received the ball and faced Tamir to repeat the old trick, "Hey, I just met Freeman Dyson the day before yesterday and talked about quantum electrodynamics, do you want to know what we talked about?"

"Ang, that's a Shenma?", the information showed that Tamir, who was studying physics, looked confused, he didn't understand what Lu Qiujian meant at all!

Well, I know this trick is not good except for the Ivy League! Lu Qiujian frustrated a cross dribble to dodge Tamir, and took the opportunity of Sipp to come to make up for the defense to pass the ball to Will, who made a decisive move to score two points first.

The game continued, Joe Sipp didn't make much effort to break through Will's defense, but before he could be happy, he found that he had been blocked by Lu Qiujian; under his interference, Sipp shot wide, Patrice picked up the rebound and quickly passed to Lu Qiujian, Lu Qiujian took the ball and shot from outside the three-point line.

In this way, Berkeley's own offense was suppressed under the defense of Will and Lucid, and they had no way to stop Lucid's breakthrough and passing, and the score was slowly pulled apart, and the Princeton Tigers led 44-29 at the end of the first half.

In the second half, Lu Qiujian played another seven or eight minutes, and scored 20 plus 10 again, and Sypu hit countless irons, but it allowed Patrice to brush the rebounds to double digits.

Thirty-two minutes into the game, the suspense was lost, Berkeley's coach replaced the main team and announced the surrender, and Thompson also replaced Lu Qiujian and Patrice to rest. The Princeton Tigers won the first game without blood!

Then Butler Bulldogs, Syracuse University Oranges, Louisville Cardinals and other strong teams also won one after another, and the game entered the second round.

The first round of 32 to reach the round of 16 was between the Princeton Tigers and the Oklahoma Legacies, who had won the preseason against the Tigers, but the Tigers did not play at that time, and Taki Gray thought the game would be won like last time, but soon Lucchujian shattered his illusions with a pass.

In this game, Lu Qiujian knew that Patrice was holding back a lot of energy and wanted revenge, so as long as he had the opportunity, he passed the ball to him at every opportunity, and Patrice lived up to expectations, using his strong body and skilled feet to score points on Taki Gray's head again and again, and in defense, he also kept in mind the technical flaws of Taki Gray pointed out to him by Lu Qiujian in the last game, and sent one big hat after another, beating this poor child to the point of crying.

Although this game is Oklahoma's home stadium, the fans in the arena are doing their best to cheer for the team, but these are useless in the face of absolute strength.

Even though the Kickers burst out with fighting spirit far beyond the preseason, they could not stop the cooperation between Lu Qiujian and Patrice, and they finally lost by 9 points at 74-65, and their dreams of trying to break into the final four again were shattered, and they watched the Princeton Tigers step on their bodies to enter the sweet 16.

After reaching the round of 16, the venue was changed to Albany, and Princeton also faced the Butler Bulldogs, who had just beaten the Louisville Cardinals 79-71.

After nearly 40 minutes of hard fighting, in the final moments of the game, Lu Qiujian hit two three-pointers in a row to seal the victory, defeating the Butler Bulldogs with a score of 78-72.

Then Carmelo Anthony also led the team to a last-minute victory over Auburn University with a score of 79-78, and coincidentally the Auburn University team is also called the Tigers.

And just like that, the Eastern Conference finals will be between the Princeton Tigers and the Syracuse University Orange People, and the winner will advance to the final four, with Princeton hosting their toughest opponent so far this season.

The game is all about birds, since everyone doesn't like it.