In the blink of an eye, it's January 10th!

This is the day of the regular season within the major leagues!

Like NBA competitions, the divisional tournament is divided into a regular season and a knockout game (playoffs), and the knockout rounds are determined according to the ranking of the regular season.

It is said that the NCAA's attention in the United States is higher than that of the NBA, but in fact, this is not false at all!

The reason for this, the first is the heritage, the history of the NCAA is much older than the NBA, for example, the history of the Purdue University team is older than any NBA team!

The second is coverage, the NCAA has nearly 1,000 teams, even if it is a Division I league, there are about 300 teams, basically covering all the large and small cities in the United States, and what about the NBA? There are only twenty or thirty teams, and there are more than 50 states in the United States, and the average team in one state is not covered, so fans are naturally more inclined to watch the games of their own city teams.

The third is the cruelty of the schedule, although the NBA is a professional league, but the cruelty of their schedule is far less than the NCAA's Black March, a game is won or lost, and a game is life and death!

In this case, it is understandable that the NCAA has attracted more attention than the NBA.

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The Boilermakers are now in the limelight, and countless pairs of eyes are staring at this team that has not tasted defeat at present, in order to increase the attention of the regular season opener, the Big Ten League Management Committee directly came to a mortal enemy showdown!

Although it is a famous basketball school, in Indiana, purely in terms of team honor, in fact, the Boilermen are not as good as its archrival team Indiana University Mountain People, mainly because the Mountain Men have won five national championships, comparable to Jordan's alma mater North Carolina, while the Boilermen are only once!

But to the pride of the boilermen, the two teams have a better historical record against the boilermen, who are currently 104-86, ahead of the mountain people.

These two teams are a well-known pair of rivals throughout the NCAA!

The rivalry was a confrontation between the old enemies, and all parties paid attention, but Richard did not pay attention to the mountain people at all.

In December, he sent three letters of invitation to the mountain people in a row, but the other party refused to fight behind closed doors, I am afraid they also know very well that with their strength will not be the opponent of the current boilermen, if they fight so early, losing will really affect morale!

In fact, there are currently fourteen teams in the Big Ten League, and there are four of them that can be called basketball schools, in addition to the mountain people and boilermen, the Michigan State University Spartans and the University of Michigan Wolverines are also well-known!

The former walked out of the superstar of Magic Johnson!

The latter is even more terrifying, the Michigan Five Tigers who ravaged the NCAA two years ago are talking about them......

From this, we can also see how terrifying the strength of the Big Ten Alliance is......

Of course, no one is good for a thousand days, and there is no flower for a hundred days, and the three strongest competitors of the boilermakers, this season, are either the main players of the team to participate in the draft, or they have not recruited any decent players, resulting in varying degrees of decline in their strength.

It is not these three teams that really deserve Richard's attention, but the University of Wisconsin, which is not at the top of the league......

The main reason is that they currently have a player on the team who Richard is extremely familiar with, Michael Finley, nicknamed the "poor man's version of Jordan"!

As long as the nickname can be stained with the word Jordan, the strength must not be underestimated, and the future All-Star player Finley and Richard still have to pay attention to it.

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In the opening game of the old enemy, the boilermaker won neatly, which was not unexpected by Indiana fans!

The main reason is that the state of the boilermen is too hot, the two core players in the team, Big Ben and Iverson, are outrageously strong, and although the mountain people have a good background, they can't find players in the team who can compare.

After winning over his old rival, the Mountain People, the name Richard had become well-known and well-known in Indiana.

If Big Ben and Iverson are both veteran players, then some people may think that Richard has been stained with the light of his previous head coach and just walked with good luck......

But at the moment, Big Ben and Iverson are pure rookie newcomers who can't be pure, so in this case, Richard's vicious selection vision is particularly eye-catching!

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After the opening game beheaded the mountain people, the next regular season schedule, the boilermakers continued the explosive state of the previous warm-up games, winning consecutive battles, including the Spartans and Wolverines were also killed.

And as Richard expected, the University of Wisconsin, under the leadership of Finley, has also had a very dazzling record, and has only lost to the Wolverines since the start of the game......

On February 10th, the final game of the regular season of the Boilermen Division, it was the dark horse Wisconsin!

The night before the game, Richard received a bit of inexplicable news that Tianjing had sent a basketball research team that would arrive at Purdue University in two days......

Richard could have guessed why the mission would choose Purdue University as its destination.

The first reason is that Purdue University has a lot of good relations with China, and there are many well-known scientific people in China who come from this university, and as far as Richard knows, in addition to Deng Jiaxian and Sun Liren, there are at least two or three academician-level figures.

With this kind of good fate, if you go to Purdue University for research, you will definitely be able to do it......

As for the second reason, it must be Richard, the Chinese head coach, whether it is Chinese or Chinese, they are all compatriots, and they are naturally close......

For these two reasons, there is no doubt that the mission will be at Purdue University.

But what Richard is puzzled about is that basketball is already so important in this era in China? Anyway, in Richard's memory, it seems that the acceptance of basketball in China was not high in the past nine years, and it can even be said to be very low......

"Forget it, let's talk about it later, it's really weird!" Richard shook his head, no longer thinking about it.

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McKay Center, the game went into halftime!

After the first half of the game, to the surprise of the 14,000 fans in the audience, although the Wisconsin team was in a backward situation, it did not collapse, and they still had the strength to fight!

At half-time, they were only seven points behind!

Finley was on fire throughout the first half, whether it was against Brent Barry or Jerome Green, all of them had a big advantage, shooting 9-of-14 and hitting four free throws from the outside, scoring 24 points in the first half alone!

"Ben, I gave you a difficult task in the second half, which is to lock up Finley, I don't care what means you use, in short, I don't want to see him score more than ten points in the second half!" Richard said angrily.

Although Jerome Green is a veteran player, the talent is there, and it is completely inadequate, both offensively and defensively......

And Brent Barry, the offensive firepower is very sufficient, is the main output point of the current Boiler Workers' outside line, but his defense is not very strong, at least in front of Finley, who is known as the poor version of Jordan, he does not play much role.

In this case, Richard had to send a big killer Ben!

There is also a threat point in the Wisconsin team, and Richard is confident that after strangling Finley, he can easily win the opponent!

"Don't worry, coach, leave this job to me, I will make him regret being born in this world!" Big Ben didn't say a word, and he accepted it!

The second half of the game restarted, and the biggest impression that Big Ben left on fans was his strong interior defense, but in fact, Big Ben's explosive physical talent and defensive outside players were also extraordinary!

At least now Finley is extremely uncomfortable by the big defense, and he can't play the efficient performance of the first half.