In terms of the overall strength of the team, the University of Utah is the undisputed leader of the Western Conference Athletic Conference this season. The top seed in the Mountain Division, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, looks good with a 9-5 record within the league? But the University of Utah is a staggering 14-0, and of course the losers include the University of Colorado.

Compared to the University of Utah, the other two teams in the semifinals, Southern Defenders Polytechnic University and the University of New Mexico, can only be said to be mediocre, and no matter which team Colorado State faces, they have a good chance of winning. In other words, this semifinal against the University of Utah is the most crucial battle of the University of Colorado in the league championship, and if it wins, it is likely to directly enter the national championship as the league champion; If you lose, it's up to the NCAA selection committee to give their opinion.

There really isn't any team that wants to look at the selection committee unless they really don't have any hope of winning the league title. Judging by the current situation of the University of Colorado, as long as they can beat the University of Utah, then even if they don't have a star, the selection committee will have to pinch their noses and watch them go to the national championship.

Looking at the list of players from the University of Utah, Chang Wei sighed secretly, and the top line of the list reads Andre Miller. This is another difficult guy to deal with, although Miller was not famous in his previous life, he was the No. 8 pick in the first round in 1999, and he once scored 52 points in a single game. Now a senior at the University of Utah, he is also in his final season in the NCAA, averaging 15.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game, making him the University of Utah's number one star.

However, Chang Wei is not too worried, Miller played a two-way guard at the University of Utah, and the guard Jeremy Keelung, who started with him, is only 1.83 meters tall, which means that Miller, who is 1.88 meters, appears more often in the second position. Colorado State's No. 2 position is their leading scorer Palesio, who not only improves his offensive firepower quickly under Chang Wei's tutelage, but also performs well on the defensive end, but many times the team's outside defense is in charge of Patik.

McKay is also aware of Palesio's strength on the defensive end, but he doesn't want the latter to put all his energy into the defensive end, after all, he is the team's top scorer, and without him, the team's offensive firepower will drop more than a notch. Palesio was very interested in Miller, everyone came out of the minor league, and no one was worse than the other.

At the beginning of the game, Palesio approached Miller, and he planned to take a look first, and it would be good to give his opponent a dismount. Unexpectedly, he easily threw off Miller's defense, who could only helplessly follow behind. It is true that Miller is not a player who relies on his body to play, his speed is not fast, and he mainly relies on experience and insight, so he has no way to deal with a violent breakthrough like Palesio.

McKay's eyes lit up on the sidelines, this is a good breakthrough, of course, Miller's weakness Chang Wei also knows, but he didn't plan to say it, after all, he has never paid attention to the University of Utah game, and it is estimated that he will be regarded as a psychotic if he says it rashly. Seeing McKay signaling the players on the field to strengthen their physical confrontation, Chang Weiwan smiled, it seems that McKay still has two brushes, no wonder he can be hired by Colorado State as a firefighter.

After the Colorado players stepped up their physical confrontation, the rest of the University of Utah players felt fine, but Miller complained. Strength is not his strong point, whenever he wants to break through or score a layup, he will be squeezed by the opponent, so angry that he scolds Colorado players in his heart are a group of savages, and he uses physical confrontation to solve problems at every turn, so that he can't play well at all, and it is good to play six or seven percent of his strength.

Miller is the stadium engine of the University of Utah, and when he is out of shape, the whole team will instantly become unable to play. Colorado took the opportunity to widen the difference, and that's how it is on the basketball court, taking advantage of your illness to kill you, not grasping the opponent's weaknesses and beating hard, blindly being a woman's kindness, and always losing in the end is still yourself.

Without Miller in the center, the University of Utah players had to fight on their own, compared to the Colorado State offense played extremely smoothly, there was no need for McCans, the orthodox point guard, to deliberately organize the offense, everyone on the floor was a playmaker, and everyone was a finisher, facing the powerful University of Utah, the University of Colorado almost played its best game of the season, leading the opponent by 12 points at halftime.

While that may not seem like a big difference, it was a rare experience for the University of Utah, who have won all of their games in the league this season, and have never tried to trail their opponents by double digits at halftime. With them just a stone's throw away from the league championship and being beaten by a team they've never looked at by 12 points at halftime, it would be a shame for anyone, let alone the University of Utah, which is aiming for the league title.

But their anger didn't help, and although they narrowed the deficit to five points at one point after the opening of the second half, Colorado's big three-pointer from outside came into play. McCanzi, Palesio and Partik all hit three-pointers from the perimeter to stretch the margin back into double digits.

Miller would have liked to have helped the team close the gap, but now that Colorado's defense is so impregnable, the University of Utah simply can't make its system work, and the only thing they can rely on is the players' individual scores. And Miller is not a player who can often score like crazy, and it is indeed difficult for him to hold the ball and play alone to keep the team alive.

The head coach of the University of Utah, Megales, made a series of substitutions, trying to find a way for the team to turn defeat into victory, but unfortunately his experiment failed, no matter who was substituted on the field, he couldn't stop the opponent's mercury-like attack, and he wanted to play the opposite attack but had more than enough strength, which was difficult for Megales, who has always regarded himself very highly, to accept.

As the timer beeped, the game came to an end. It was a one-sided game as predicted, but it wasn't the University of Utah, which looked stronger, that dominated the game, but the University of Colorado. While their opponents left the court in disgrace, the Colorado players were unbridled on the court, and this time, they were one step away from qualifying for the National Championship.