Chapter 35: Preparing for the Divisional Competition
The next day, under the supervision and notarization of the staff of the league organizing committee, the provincial sports bureau announced the final list of results of the qualifiers.
1st place: Icetown University (6-0)
2nd place: Hecheng University (5 wins, 1 loss)
3rd place: University of Oil City (4 wins, 2 losses)
4th place: Syracuse University (3 wins, 3 losses)
5th place: Lindo University (2 wins, 4 losses)
Sixth place: Jiacheng University (1 win and 5 losses) became the first team to lose all but the same city competition.
The top two teams, Bingcheng University and Hecheng University, advanced to the divisional round. At the same time, the Ice City University Gymnasium is also one of the venues for reporting divisional competitions, and they can meet the challenges of their opponents at their doorstep.
In comparison, Hecheng University is not so easy. They will travel to Gurin Province on March 5 to challenge Gurin University.
For this opponent, the Hecheng players were both excited and a little nervous.
Although the team avoided several strong teams, Gulling University was not so easy to deal with. They are the No. 1 sports university in Gulin Province, and their basketball level can rank in the middle and upper reaches of the country. This is already a behemoth for the current Hecheng University.
Zhang Tiejun spent a whole morning taking the team members to watch the video of the game at Gulin University. Especially when he saw the opponent's main attacker, he formulated several sets of defensive tactics and repeated training in the afternoon training time.
In the early morning of the competition, Liu Xiaodong and the others got on a bus chartered by the school and went to Chuncheng, the capital of Gulin Province, in the darkness.
Along the way, there was silence in the car, and the early Hecheng team members all closed their eyes, and some even snored.
This made Liu Xiaodong, who was thinking about the problem with his eyes open, very envious, and he also wanted to squint for a while, but as soon as he closed his eyes, he remembered what Lao Hu said to him.
"If you want to win the championship, the performance right now is not enough! You have to be tough on both ends of the pitch, you have to have the momentum to beat him, no matter who the opponent is, you have to believe that you can beat him! Only with such a strong mentality can you become the final winner! ”
Zhang Tiejun sat next to Liu Xiaodong, looking at this disciple in a daze, not knowing what to say. Under Lao Hu's lobbying for two days, Liu Xiaodong still failed to change his initial idea. He doesn't know if Liu Xiaodong's stubborn insistence is right or wrong?
Time was quietly slipping away, and when it was dawn, the bus drove into the campus of Gulin University, and under the guidance of two security guards, stopped at the back door of the gymnasium.
Zhang Tiejun woke up several team members who were still sleeping, asked them to get out of the car and line up, and followed the staff into the museum.
At 8 a.m., the players from Hecheng University left the visiting team's locker room and came to the court to start warm-up training.
Liu Xiaodong picked up the basketball on the rack and patted it gently, he didn't rush to shoot, but first looked for the dribble feel.
As the friction between the basketball and the floor became more and more, Liu Xiaodong began shooting training.
"That freshman shoots so accurately, he is worthy of a new star who can score 40 points in the face of Bingcheng University!"
"He's great at dunking, he can fly over the center and dunk!"
"I'm a little worried about Sun Bin now, can I stop this violent handsome guy!"
"Uh..."
Liu Mu practiced shooting, while listening to the discussion of the audience on the sidelines, he was very surprised, he didn't expect that there were fans outside the province who paid attention to Liu Xiaodong, which was not easy for freshmen.