The IH of summer, the national sports of autumn, and the selection of winter are the three major events in Japanese college basketball. Among the three major events of college and university, the national tournament is the grand event of Japanese college basketball.

A total of 59 colleges and universities from 9 regions across the country arrived at the host venue around the end of July to take the oath as basketball players under the flashing lights.

Leaving the crowded stadium, players flocked outside, and the organizers had already posted their schedules on various bulletin boards outside the stadium. Compared with the layout and layout of the magazine, the schedule posted on the bulletin board looks clearer.

The men's competition is divided into 2 regions, with 4 sub-divisions under its jurisdiction, and the competition in the 2 divisions will be held simultaneously after August 1.

According to the rules of the schedule, multiple teams selected from the same region need to be arranged in different districts, that is, Xiangbei and Hainan, both from Kanagawa Prefecture, will be assigned to different districts to compete, and if they want to meet in future competitions, they must wait until the semi-finals or even the finals.

In fact, in this national competition, Xiangbei and Hainan were assigned to two different semi-districts, and if they did not advance to the finals together, they were destined to not meet. However, Kanagawa Prefecture is the winning prefecture in the Kanto Division, so Hainan University, which entered the national tournament as the first in Kanagawa Prefecture, is automatically seeded.

In addition to Hainan University, the five seeded teams are Sanno Industries, a representative team from Akita Prefecture, a winning prefecture in the Tohoku region, Aiwa Gakuin (Shizuoka Prefecture, where Tsunei High School is located, is also affiliated with this region), and Fukuoka Prefecture, a winning prefecture in Kyushu. Luoan High School in Kyoto Prefecture, the winning prefecture of the region, was the final fifth seeded team.

The five seeded teams were assigned to four zones and received a bye in the first round. Most of the seeded teams will not meet until the semi-finals.

According to the schedule that has been announced, there are two seeded teams in the semi-district where Xiangbei is located, namely Aiwa College from Aichi Prefecture and Hakata Business University affiliated with Fukuoka. The Hainan Affiliated Half contains Hainan's own three seeded teams, with Luoan High School from Kyoto Prefecture and last year's champion, Sanno Kogyo from Akita Prefecture, the other two seeded teams.

"Hainan is in the other half, and it seems that it will be difficult to meet again." Yukimura said, glancing at the schedule.

Some people rejoiced and said: "This is very good, so that you will not meet Hainan." ”

Fuji retorted: "It's too useless for seniors to say that!" ”

Although the Xiangbei team has entered the national competition, the perennial weakness has given birth to a cowardly mentality and is still dormant in some senior players, but fortunately, the Xiangbei team is a very young team, and the core players are all second-year and junior students, and it is their newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers to lead the team to the present.

Moreover, compared with the half of Xiangbei, the situation of Hainan is not good, and it is too difficult to stand out in the half of the region with three seeded teams, especially the team with Sanno Industry, which has won two consecutive championships.

"Okay, don't worry about Hainan, we also have a strong team like Aihe Academy in our group."

Mu Du nodded, adding for Yukimura, "That's right. Like Hainan, Aihe College also achieved the top four results in the national competition last year, and it is a team that should not be underestimated like Hainan. ”

Mu Du is right, and except for the five seeded teams, the other teams that can participate in the national competition are not opponents to be underestimated.

Fuji looked at the billboard for a long time and didn't move, Aihe Academy is indeed the team with the highest strength on paper in their district, under the premise that Aihe Academy wins the second and third rounds, Xiangbei must reach the quarterfinals if it wants to meet Aihe Academy. Before Aihe Academy, Xiangbei had to win three teams in three rounds.

For example, the opponent in the first round of the first round was Tanglai Technical High School from Hiroshima Prefecture, which is also a team that has participated in many national competitions, but the results have not been good. In fact, the level of the Chugoku region to which Hiroshima Prefecture belongs (one of the nine regions divided into the Japanese basketball community) has been low throughout the country.

Compared with the first two rounds, if Xiangbei can win the third round, it is possible to meet a higher-level team - Fengyu High School. It is not as well-known as teams like Hainan, Aihe and Sanwang Industries, but it is a solid national top eight. The evaluation in the magazine is much higher than that of Xiangbei.

"It turns out that you are in the same group as Aihe."

Behind him, a familiar voice came, and everyone in Xiangbei looked back, and the people of Hainan wearing purple short-sleeved jackets stood not far behind them, and the speaker was Hainan captain Bai Shi Youhui.

"Yes, Shiraishi!" Yukimura smiled and nodded, "However, you Hainan are also in the same half district as the Mountain King and Luo'an, and everyone's situation understands each other!" ”

Luo'an, who is in the same area as Hainan, is one of the five seeded teams after all, and it is also a team with the strength to impact the top four.

Shiraishi smiled: "Even if the King of the Mountain was the champion last year, we in Hainan will not be afraid of them." ”

"At this point, we are the same in Xiangbei, let's fight you in the finals, Baishi!"

In the afternoon, the support group of the Xiangbei team from Kanagawa also arrived one after another, and Tokuo and others, Haruko and her friends, and the information department of Xiangbei High School led by Mari Kawai all arrived.

The night before the race, everyone's mental state was different, some people were so excited that they couldn't sleep so they ran outside the hotel, and some people turned their stress into words and used the hotel phone to make phone porridge for a long time.

Fuji draped in a towel and soaked in the hot spring water with Miyagi. The warm spring water soaked his skin, relieved the fatigue of the day, and also relieved the stress in his heart.

This night, after a peaceful day, Fuji slept soundly after soaking in the hot springs. Unlike Fuji, Akagi, who has regarded the national competition as a dream stage since elementary school, frowns as he flips through sports magazines and ponders the reasons for the team's low rating in magazines.

After a while, Twilight and Mitsui entered the room one after another. Akagi closed the magazine, sat up from the tatami mat, and asked Mitsui, "Mitsui, were you nervous when you were in junior high school?" ”

"Kunijun?" Mitsui looked at Akagi unexpectedly, thought for a moment and replied, "Yes, yes!" It's a little bit of a little bit. ”

Akagi lowered his head and said in a deep voice, "Really? It's the first time I've been shaking like I did today. ”

"Don't talk about it, I'll go out for a run!" After Akagi finished speaking, he stood up and walked out. Leaving Mu Du and Mitsui looking at each other.

Mitsui said, "So he will be nervous too?" ”

Mu Du helped his glasses: "It's no wonder, after all, participating in the national competition is what Akagi has been longing for since he was a child." ”

Outdoors, at night.

Akagi, who calms his inner tension with a jog, secretly decides that he will definitely win tomorrow!

The next day, August 2, the match between Xiangbei and Tanglai Industry was held in the afternoon.

At the beginning of the game, the Xiangbei team made full efforts, and the continuous offensive wave after wave impacted the basket of Tanglai Industry, established the advantage early, and further widened the score difference through the vast attack like a wave. Akagi's rebounds and slam dunks, Miyagi's fast break, passing, and non-two shots and layups, with the performance of these three people alone, Xiangbei played a 15-point lead in the first half.

After entering the second half, Mitsui took over the rhythm of the game, and after becoming the offensive core of Xiangbei, he hit 4 three-pointers in a row, directly pushing the game to a climax.

In the end, Xiangbei 83 beat Tanglai Industry 59 and ended the game with a big victory of 24 points. In this game, Mitsui's data of 7 of 8 three-point shots is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!