For the American public, most people's eyes will be focused on the NCAA basketball game after March, after all, "March Madness" is not for fun. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the NCAA Basketball League decided the round of 64 and a single playout game began in March, the whole of America went crazy for these young boys, and the name "March Madness" has become one of the spiritual symbols of the United States.

Every year in March, all professional league games in the United States will be overshadowed by the NCAA, which is a grand event that the whole American people enjoy!

In the past few years, Xiao Feng, who is on the Lakers, can clearly feel the huge impact of 'March Madness' on the NBA.

The NCAA is the National Collegiate Athletic Association, an association of thousands of colleges and universities in the United States. Its main activities are various sports leagues held every year, among which the basketball league in the first half of the year and the football league in the second half of the year attract the most attention.

In the NCAA, more than 1,000 four-year universities in the United States and Canada are divided into dozens of leagues at three levels to conduct ball leagues such as football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, as well as track and field, gymnastics, wrestling and other sports competitions.

In Los Angeles, two NCAA powerhouses, UCLA and USC, are the most national champions in each sport, with 12 national titles in each sport (excluding men's and women's teams), followed by Stanford University and the University of Michigan with 11 national titles each.

As a 77-year-old tournament, the NCAA has produced countless talented players in its history. Among them are superstars such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan, who were already thriving in college and made countless glorious history after entering the league.

Every March, when the NCAA basketball league enters the 'March Madness', the Lakers and Clippers instantly become supporting roles in the eyes of Los Angeles citizens, and everything will make way for the NCAA round of 68 finals.

Attentive viewers will surely notice that in March, the Lakers and Clippers will see their number of games at home Staples Arena drop to a low point, with more games being prioritized for UCLA and USC basketball.

Normally, the Lakers can be regarded as the owner of the city of Los Angeles, but entering March, the city belongs to UCLA and USC.

Not only has Staples Arena become an important place for citizens to watch the game, but the media throughout Los Angeles and even the United States are also focused on the NCAA, and the whole of America is crazy about the NCAA.

Compared with the commercialization of the NBA, the NCAA is a more pure basketball, not to mention that after entering the round of 68, it is a single elimination game, which is more exciting and exciting.

The NBA's regular season is too long, seven months long, with a whopping 82 games, except for some key events and peak matchups, in fact, the audience does not care much about the outcome of the game, because losing a regular season game is not the end of the world.

Before Xiao Feng's Lakers, only Jordan's Bulls lost less than 10 games in the 60-year history of the NBA, so neither the audience nor the players felt much about losing a few regular season games.

Even in the playoffs and even in the Finals, the best-of-seven format makes match-point games a showdown on the brink of a cliff.

In a sense, the NCAA is much more exciting than the NBA, so it's no wonder that more viewers appreciate the NCAA more.

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On Saturday, March 9, UCLA will take on another NCAA powerhouse from the East, the University of North Carolina at Staples Arena.

When it comes to North Carolina, almost all basketball fans will have that great name in their minds, and that is the god of basketball!

Especially for Chinese fans, if it weren't for Jordan, they wouldn't even care where North Carolina is.

On March 29, 1982, as a freshman at the University of North Carolina, Jordan scored the winning goal in the NCAA League finals to help the University of North Carolina team defeat Ewing's Georgetown University team 63-62. In the 1982-83 season, Jordan was named Collegiate Player of the Year and All-American First Team member by Sports News. In the 1983-84 season, Jordan was again named Collegiate Player of the Year and All-American First Team member by Sports News.

The University of North Carolina basketball team also has an excellent record in the NCAA, winning four NCAA basketball championships in 1957, 1982, 1992 and 2009.

In contrast, UCLA has come out on top, winning a record 11 NCAA Championship titles. UCLA legendary coach John Wooden led the team to 10 of these championships in 12 seasons from 1964 to 1975. However, UCLA's performance in the NCAA has been somewhat unsatisfactory over the years, and the last and eleventh time it won the championship was in 1995, and it has been 24 years so far!

The meeting of the two basketball elite schools in the NCAA Championship has attracted the attention of the media in the United States and even the world, and many celebrities have also cheered for the game.

As an outstanding representative of North Carolina, the basketball god Jordan is naturally optimistic about the performance of his alma mater's students, and he said in an interview with the media that North Carolina can beat UCLA and achieve the final victory.

The UCLA leader in the basketball world is Tiangou Jabbar, and the septuagenarian with chronic leukemia also made a rare appearance in front of the media and the public, indicating that he would personally go to the scene to watch the boys' games, which also made the media and the basketball world feel like chicken blood.

You must know that after Zhou Cong retired from the position of assistant coach of the Lakers due to chronic leukemia 10 years ago, Abdul-Jabbar has rarely appeared in public.

In recent years, the Lakers have been invincible in the NBA, and Abdul-Jabbar only appeared at the finals award ceremony.

In addition to the outstanding alumni in the basketball world, this NCAA game also attracted outstanding alumni from all walks of life of the two schools to support, and it became extremely lively before the game for a while.

Tao Jiji, a heavyweight in the Chinese music scene and a graduate of UCLA, also cheered for his alma mater Bruins on Weibo, hoping that the team could win.

Although Tao Jiji has little influence in the United States, he has a considerable influence on Chinese youth, and many people have become fans of the UCLA Bruins because of this.

In addition to Tao Jiji, another famous UCLA alumnus also said on Weibo that he would go to Staples Arena to watch the game on the day of the game, hoping that the team could win.

This celebrity is Cai Jianyong, a famous host and writer on Baodao who graduated from the UCLA Film and Television Research Institute, and his influence among Chinese young people is even greater, and the power of tens of millions of fans should not be underestimated.

The two celebrities' shouts for UCLA attracted the attention of many Chinese fans to this game, especially some older Chinese fans who heard that Jordan would come to watch the game, and even locked the broadcast time of the game, hoping to catch a glimpse of the idol.

In recent years, with the development of Internet technology and the continuous increase of content providers, NCAA games have also entered the lives of Chinese audiences, even if they cannot see the live broadcast on satellite TV stations, fans can still see the broadcast of the game on the Internet, and even watch the live broadcast of major American TV stations over the wall.

The game is still two days away, but many eyes are already on Los Angeles and Staples Arena for a great show!

The day before the game, Xiao Feng announced on his personal scarf that he would go to Staples Arena with his wife to watch the showdown between Mars and Earth!

Xiao Feng's influence on the world is naturally undoubted, his scarf and Twitter have just been updated, and they immediately attracted tens of millions of fans to like and retweet, and in a very short period of time, they caused huge repercussions around the world.

In the eyes of many Los Angeles citizens, UCLA is a more important symbol than the Lakers, and Xiao Feng, as the owner of the Lakers, supports UCLA, which is naturally able to win the hearts of Los Angeles citizens.

Because Xiao Feng announced his support for UCLA on the Internet, the number of Bruins fans in China has grown rapidly, and the terrible power of fans has been undoubtedly revealed in this incident.

I have to say that with the addition of various heavyweights, this originally ordinary NCAA game has become the focus of the entire United States in a very short period of time, and even the Lakers' away victory over the Golden State Warriors the day before was almost unattended!

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At half past six in the afternoon of the 9th, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao, who had had dinner, left the 'Dream Manor' on the convoy and went to the Staples Arena.

Although it was the weekend, the children didn't want to go to the game, because the grandparents had just come to Los Angeles from China the day before yesterday, and a few little ones were sticking to them.

Xiao Feng's convoy had just left the 'Dream Manor', and the media car waiting at the door also followed up in time and filmed the whole process.

In fact, in addition to tracking and filming Xiao Feng's team, major TV stations have also made heavy investments for the broadcast of today's game.

ABC sent a helicopter over Staples Arena to broadcast live aerial footage, and invited the golden combination of Barkley and Kenny to narrate today's game.

According to incomplete statistics, the match will be broadcast live by 40 TV stations in more than 32 countries today, and the total number of journalists from all over the world who came to Staples Arena exceeded 200!

Some technology companies predict that more than 40 million people will tune in to the game in North America alone, even more than the NBA Finals.

This is only the first game of the NCAA Championship, and if you make it to the final four finals or even the finals, you don't know what kind of sensation it will cause!

It can be seen that the popularity of the NCAA in North America is incomparable to that of ordinary professional leagues!

When Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao arrived at Staples Arena, they were also frightened by the crowd in front of them!

In Xiao Feng's impression, even if it is the Lakers' Finals, Staples Arena may not be as lively as it is today, which makes him feel a little jealous.

Usually, the Lakers are favored by the Los Angeles media and citizens, which made Xiao Feng once think that the Lakers were the pride of the whole Los Angeles, but now it seems that UCLA's status in the hearts of Los Angeles citizens is much higher than that of the Lakers!

Xiao Feng learned from Kupchak that under the premise of ensuring safety, the Staples Arena has undergone some minor modifications, and a number of temporary seats have been added to the stadium, which can accommodate 19,600 fans, so that 22,180 fans can attend the stadium in person.

When Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao entered the stadium through a special passage, at least more than 20,000 enthusiastic spectators poured into the scene, and the entire Staples roof was about to be overturned!

Compared with the highly commercial NBA games, NCAA basketball wants to be more pure, and the support of the audience is even more sparing, which makes Xiao Feng feel quite shocked!

It seems that the Lakers have a long way to go if they want to win the greater favor of the citizens of Los Angeles!

As soon as Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao sat down, the on-site director spotted him very sharply, and pointed the camera at them and gave a close-up!

Xiao Feng and his wife appeared on the big screen at the scene, and more than 20,000 spectators immediately applauded warmly, and the atmosphere of the scene reached its peak in an instant!

For Xiao Feng, most of the citizens of Los Angeles are quite satisfied, after all, after Xiao Feng joined the Lakers, the team has made great progress in just a few years, giving the citizens of Los Angeles great happiness!

In addition, Xiao Feng's public image of being keen on public welfare also makes the citizens have a good impression of him, and it is reasonable to give him warm applause!

In addition to Xiao Feng, celebrities including Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar, the famous director Coppola and his nephews Nicolas Cage and Mark Harmon were also discovered by the live director and appeared on the big screen of the scene, causing bursts of cheers from the audience.

For the audience, it is also a pleasure to come to the stadium to watch the game, in addition to the game itself, to meet these celebrities!

With the referee's whistle, the Mars collision with the earth officially kicked off, and tens of millions of American families also turned on their televisions to watch the game broadcast, and the crazy journey of 'March Madness' officially began! )