After two rounds in a row, the Colorado coaching staff and players had to pack their bags and prepare for the next tournament, where the Western Conference semifinals and finals will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This is a good place for all the teams in the Western Conference who make it to the semifinals, since New Mexico and Arizona are adjacent to each other, and they don't even need to fly, and the bus is enough to take the highway. And this is also in time, the second round of the West Conference ended on March 18, and the start time of the semifinals was scheduled for March 23, which is indeed a good choice for Colorado State, which will leave the day after the game.

In addition to not having to travel long distances, Chang Wei also received good news, well, this is also good news for the remaining four teams. The University of Arizona, the top seed in the West and the team's rival in Chang Wei, was eliminated in the second round, beating them by the University of Wisconsin, the No. 8 seed in the West Conference. Chang Wei was also shocked when he heard the news, and he even couldn't wait to see what magical people in the Wisconsin team could lead the team to kill the University of Arizona led by Arenas and Jamison, if it wasn't an accident, it would be terrifying.

But now is not the time to care about how Wisconsin beat Arizona, and Chang Wei and his coaching staff will have to help McKay analyze the semifinal opponent, who has just eliminated No. 3 seed Oakland University No. 6 seed Purdue University. Purdue is also an established team, and although they are not as famous as the giants, they are indeed old enough in terms of team history, having been competing in the NCAA since the 1896-97 season of the last century, but they have never won the championship.

Purdue haven't had any particularly good players this season, with Cardinal, the top scorer per game, scoring just 13.9 points, but four players on the team have double-doubles, indicating that they are still a team that relies on team strength to win. But it quickly became clear that Purdue's weakness was that the team was short on the inside.

Purdue's three players who marked the center, John Allison 2.08 meters, Adam Wetzel 2.06 meters, the most outrageous is their starting center Greg McCquay, who is only 2.01 meters tall, shorter than the starting wing teammates, although this guy also averages 5.5 rebounds per game, but when encountering a team with normal interior height like Colorado State, it is basically going to be blown into scum, not to mention that West and Ford themselves are very good.

In response to Purdue's weakness of being short inside, McKay once again focused on West in this game, and also gave him unlimited firing rights, anyway, with his height, whether it is in the inside single or on the outside, he can basically beat the opposing player into a dog. Purdue University head coach Kim Kady is also anxious, put the bench on it, the strength is far worse than the opponent, continue to use the starter, and be bullied by others in terms of height, this game is really unplayable.

West is very cool, it is rare to see such a strange interior combination from Purdue in the NCAA, he has a lot of fun in the restricted area alone, and the shooting percentage is so high that it is desperate. Under Chang Wei's training, West is no longer the inside line in his previous life who could only score in the three-second zone and mid-range, the inside line can play around, and he can also pull outside to shoot, basically the offensive range has covered every area from the three-point line to the basket, such an inside line is a nightmare for Purdue University.

It can be said that this game was West who played a team alone. Although Kaidi also wants to send troops to encircle and suppress West, his interior players are not at all in front of West, and in the end, West can pick two on the inside, plus his god-like mid-range shooting and three-point shots, this game is equivalent to his solo show.

Although Colorado State didn't open up the margin as they did in the first two games, the situation on the court was still on their side. Whenever Purdue showed signs of chasing points, West always dispelled their naïve thoughts with a beautiful mid-range strike. It was because of West's dominance that McKay played him for 35 minutes, which is only 40 minutes in an NCAA game, which means that West has no rest for the entire game.

But he didn't show signs of fatigue, which is still the credit of Chang Wei's training, otherwise an inside big man player plays more than 30 minutes per game, and also plays an important role at both offensive and defensive ends, such a player is simply a monster. In 35 minutes of playing time, West hit 14 of 21 shots to finish with 36 points, eight rebounds and five assists...... He shot too accurately, and Ford gave the defensive rebound again.

Still, West was undoubtedly cheered on by the crowd, and in tonight's arena, West was the god who dominated the interior, and those hardcore Colorado supporters looked at him in the same way as the big four centers. Chang Wei also breathed a sigh of relief, although West's 18th pick in the first round in his previous life was not low, but this time he may be able to be selected in a higher position, as long as he does not play for four years like in his previous life.

80-69, Colorado State once again easily passed and successfully got the ticket to the Western Conference finals, which also surprised the outside world, and no one thought that they would actually go this far. Last year, Colorado forced Duke into overtime, which many thought was luck, but this year they proved with an indisputable performance that dragging Duke into overtime was not an accident, but probably the norm for this small team, not to mention that they looked much better this year than they did last year.

That night, Chang Wei received the news of his opponent in the finals, and sure enough, he had eliminated the University of Arizona in Wisconsin, and they defeated Louisiana State University 61-48 in the semifinals to advance to the finals. In a way, Wisconsin is on the move, with back-to-back defeats to the University of Arizona and Louisiana boosting their morale to an unimaginable level, and even a good chance of continuing to make it to the Final Four.

Looking at the comments in the newspaper and on the website, Chang Wei smiled slightly: Want the champion of the Western Region? Did you ask us if Colorado is big? In sports, morale is important, but it is not everything......