On the afternoon of August 3, in the second round of the national competition, Xiangbei met Takamisawa High School from Hokkaido.

Takamizawa's team was the champion of this year's Hokkaido region, and it is a regular participant in the winter and summer national tournaments in recent years, and it also represents the highest level in the Hokkaido region.

It's just that the overall basketball level of the Hokkaido Division is in the middle of the country, especially in recent years, it has not been seen that a team from the Hokkaido Division has reached the top eight, and even the top 16 is very rare.

Takamizawa, who is now standing in front of Xiangbei, has achieved the best results in the national competition in the past five years at the level of the top 16, and has fallen in the first and second rounds of the competition in the past two years.

This year, Takamisawa won the first round of the national competition with great difficulty, and when they learned that the opponent in the second round was Xiangbei High School, which was on the stage of the national competition for the first time, they even felt a little lucky.

In sports magazines, the team evaluations of Xiangbei and Takamisawa are fixed at the C level, and from this point alone, Xiangbei may not be an invincible opponent for Takamisawa. In fact, because Takamizawa's players think that their team is stronger this year than last year, and the evaluation given by sports magazines based on last year's performance is lower than the actual situation, they think that Takamizawa's winning rate is higher than that of Xiangbei.

"We're far better this year than we were last year, and we won't lose to a team that is entering the national competition for the first time." Takamizawa's No. 4 captain said before the game, very impassioned.

But in reality, the situation in this game was much worse than the Takami players thought.

At the beginning of the game, Takamisawa was indeed a little shocked to Xiangbei, and played two waves of beautiful cooperation at the beginning. But after that, Xiangbei began to exert strength, and counterattacked for 6 points in succession, and since then, Xiangbei has slowly grasped the rhythm of the game, and Takamisawa tried to struggle in the middle of the first half, but the fluttering waves are smaller and smaller each time.

In the middle of the first half, after Xiangbei replaced Mitsui, any counterattack by Takamisawa seemed to be invisibly resolved.

After entering the second half, Akagi continued to contract the basket, Fuji attacked the basket on the wing, and Mitsui used his accurate three-point shot to extinguish Takamizawa's fighting spirit several times, and finally left only an insurmountable score gap and despair of will.

In the end, Xiangbei defeated Takamisawa 79-51.

In this game, Mitsui, who appeared in the middle of the game, became the scoring champion, scoring 21 points on 7-of-9 three-point shooting, and 7 points from layups, mid-range shots and free throws, for a total of 28 points.

Outside the stadium, on the viewing platform, there were several teams paying attention to this game, including Hainan University, which is from Kanagawa like Xiangbei, and Fengyu High School, the opponent that Xiangbei will face in the next round.

"It's a boring game, isn't it, Nam Yeol!" Minori Kishimoto raised his thick eyebrows and smiled.

Next to him is the ace player of Fengyu High School, the second-year Nan Lie, a persistent and even paranoid player, with a clear and beautiful appearance, with outstanding talents, but what is even more impressive is probably his ruthless methods in the game.

Nam Yeol put his hands in his pockets, his face expressionless, but his eyes were intently fixed on Mitsui on the field.

"It's not so much that the team is stronger, but that the team is weaker, and judging from the results, it is naturally that Takamisawa is weaker, not just a little bit, it's really weak." Kishimoto continued to speak unscrupulously.

Itakura on the side was not to be outdone, and said trash talk: "Yes, look at that little man in Xiangbei, he is really short,"

"That's why I said, now the national competition is really a bad team of cats and dogs!"

"Alright, don't say useless things." Toshiki Fujiwara, a third-grader, is the captain of Toyotama High School, a national quarterfinalist regular. After his eyes swept over the Xiangbei team members who were celebrating the victory in the audience, he sneered and said: "The only time to be happy is today." ”

With that, he turned around and wanted to leave.

"Let's go! Don't waste your time on this kind of meaningless competition, and don't forget our goals for this year. Fujiwara Toshiki said, and led the players of Toyotama High School out of the competition venue.

In the distance, Feng Yu's figure left the table to attract the attention of Hainan players.

"Fengyu is Xiangbei's opponent tomorrow, right?" Yuki Shiraishi asked the people around him.

"Seems like so."

Shiraishi Youhui frowned slightly when he heard this, and said softly: "It seems that Xiangbei will fall into a bitter battle tomorrow." ”

On the other hand, Xiangbei, who ended the game, was still immersed in the joy of victory. In the blink of an eye, Xiangbei killed two players all the way, and it can be said that it was relatively easy to advance to the third round.

The teams that have entered the third round are worth looking forward to and paying attention to in terms of strength, and most of the levels have been clearly different from the teams eliminated in the first two rounds.

In the evening, after dinner time, the Xiangbei players gathered in the hotel room to watch the game video of Fengyu High School.

"Our opponent in the next round is Toyotama High School from Osaka, a team that has achieved the quarterfinals in national competitions in recent years and has been the leader in Osaka Prefecture for many years. Coach Anthy said.

Fuji listened and fell into deep thought, since he replaced Xiangyang to enter the national competition, he has been particularly interested in the team of Fengyu. Because it stands to reason that Xiang Beibei, who replaced Xiangyang to enter the national competition, may meet Fengyu, of course, provided that he did not lose the previous games.

Now, all the predictions and prospects have come true. But in this way, you can't be careless, Feng Yu can kill Xiangyang's team. In the original plot, Shoyang, who has Fujima, has suppressed Fengyu in the early stages of the game, but Nam Yeol suddenly knocks Fujima off the field with a black hand, which also shatters Shoyang's dream.

What Fuji and Xiangbei have to guard against is precisely this vicious and insidious method.

But aside from this factor, Fengyu's own strength is still very impressive.

This year's Toyotama is also the champion team of the Osaka Prefecture Competition, Daiei Gakuin has not yet risen in Osaka Prefecture, and Toyotama is still the overlord of Osaka Prefecture. Coach Kitano, who developed the run-and-bomb tactics for Toyoyu, was fired last year, and this year is the first year of the new coach's coaching, but the whole team of Toyotama has been dismissive and scornful of the new coach's guidance and tactics since the captain Toshiki Fujiwara.

The group of Fengyu players who hope to use run-and-bomb tactics to break through the national quarterfinals and let the school recall Coach Kitano are not at all commanded by the new coach, and even the way of playing on the bench and freshmen is taught by Fengyu's senior seniors.

The research and discussion about Fengyu's team continued until midnight, and in order to allow the team members to have a good rest, the seminar did not drag on too late.

After the night, on August 4th, fewer and fewer teams remained in the national competition, and today there were only 16 teams left, but after today, only eight stronger teams will remain.

In the morning, four games of 16 into 8 will be played simultaneously in four different venues.

Xiangbei will finally collide with Fengyu High School in the front.