The Trojans' home arena is Los Angeles Memorial Stadium, a large outdoor stadium located in the University of Los Angeles Park and the only venue in the world that has served as a two-time Olympic Games. After renovation in 2006, the stadium has a capacity of 65,000 spectators, with a maximum capacity of 18,000 to 42,000 for basketball, making it one of the largest stadiums in the world.

On Oct. 1, the Trojans will take on the University of Connecticut, and tickets for the game have been booked online, with tickets for the poorly located back row costing $5-$10, regular seats costing between $15 and $40, and front-row seats costing up to $80-$150.

The University of Southern California will sell a batch of cheap tickets with a discount of about 5% internally, mainly for students of the university, but they are all ordinary seats, and the front row tickets will not be sold at a discount on campus.

Trojans players receive two free front-row tickets per game, and the core of the team will not have a problem asking for more tickets.

When many black players play, the seven aunts and eight aunts, the whole family will come to watch the game, often asking the team for a dozen or more tickets at a time, and the team can only pinch their noses and give them the tickets.

Every year in the NCAA, there are ticket-related frauds, and only a small percentage of the discount tickets within many schools actually reach their students, and most of them are used by the school as black market tickets. Sometimes, these schools will also play tricks on the discount, and the tickets should be discounted by 5%, but the school sells them at 78% off, and it is common to eat the difference.

Many fans feel that the NBA stadium can only accommodate about 20,000 people at most, and they are often not satisfied. The NCAA arena can accommodate 30,000 or 40,000 people at every turn, and with so many tickets sold for one game, can it be sold in the end?

The answer, of course, is that it can be sold, with USC averaging 20,000 attendance during the regular season last season, including more than 40,000 attendees on two of the UCLA games.

NCAA basketball arenas are generally much larger than NBA arenas, and these schools try to find arenas that can accommodate more than 30,000 people.

Worldwide, the NBA is more well-known than football, baseball, and the NCAA, and its global influence is second only to football. But in North America, this ranking is about to be reversed, football, baseball, and NCAA all have higher ratings than the NBA, and football, the world's number one sport, is the sport with the smallest audience.

The NBA will make way for it on the day of the NCAA Finals, and there has been a saying that the NBA does this out of respect and gratitude for the NCAA, which has produced a large number of NBA stars. But in fact, this is not the case, the NBA's move is actually a helpless move, and it is a fun choice, even if the NBA does not stop broadcasting, no one will watch the game on this day.

At the end of the afternoon training, Wu Huang hesitated to call Taylor Swift, but he was worried that the other party would reject him again and it would be difficult to meet him in the future.

"Forget it, how can anyone invite twice a day, if they are all refused, wouldn't it be ugly?" Emperor Wu hesitated for a long time, and finally prepared to go back to the apartment to rest.

Wu Huang's apartment is not far from the school, with an area of 600 square feet, one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, and a standard bachelor apartment. On top of that, the school will pay for his rent. So with such a welfare package, if Wu Huang still chooses to live in a two-person school apartment, it will be really brain-dead.

"Hi, DeMar." When Emperor Wu got out of the car, he happened to see DeRozan, the two of them had an apartment in the same building, but not on the same floor.

DeRozan has been more diligent than Emperor Wu recently, this guy doesn't participate in any parties, and he trains in the training hall at night, which makes Emperor Wu secretly admire.

"Hey!" DeRozan replied expressionlessly, and walked into the apartment with a few supermarket bags, still unwilling to say a word to Emperor Wu.

Emperor Wu shook his head, this kid really holds a grudge, and he still hates him.

"Jingle bell!" Wu Huang was also about to go upstairs, but the mobile phone rang again, and when he picked it up, he saw that it was Christine calling......

Taylor Swift is still holding his phone, waiting for Wu Huang's call.

In the afternoon at the library, she had already alerted the guy, but it was almost six o'clock, and the expected call had not yet come.

"Jingle bell!" Taylor Swift's cell phone finally rang, and when I picked it up, Emma Roberts' voice came from the phone: "Sister Taylor, where are we going to eat at night?" ”

Taylor Swift couldn't be calm, and said angrily: "Go to the zoo and eat bamboo!" ”

Time blink of an eye to September 30th, the end of the day's training, tomorrow is the day of the competition with Kangda.

Wu Huang stood on the precise electronic scale, the number displayed on it was 174, and his weight had risen by 2 pounds after a month and a half of training?

"The body fat percentage is 8.6%, which is a good maintenance." Freud wrote down Emperor Wu's latest weight and body fat percentage.

For the past month and a half, Wu Huang has been sweating in the strength training room every day, and now the 60-minute strength training has made him no longer feel unbearable, and Wu Huang has adapted to this intensity of training.

The trainer then measured his height, and Floyd stood aside and said, "After the preseason starts, your strength training will be reduced and you will have to save your energy for the game." ”

Wu Huang nodded, from tomorrow, there will be more and more competitions, he can't continue to do strength training unscrupulously, he is most likely to be injured when his physical strength is insufficient, once he is seriously injured at this age, his entire career will be affected, and he must be treated with caution.

"The height is 188.5cm, which is 0.3cm taller than a month and a half ago, and the bone age is not large, and it is expected to grow to 190cm-192cm." The trainer measured Wu Huang's height and assessed that his height would exceed 190cm.

Freud attaches great importance to Wu Huang's height and arm span, playing the No. 1 position, 190cm-193cm height is the most suitable, no matter how tall it is, it will affect flexibility and speed, and shorter will affect defense and confrontation.

Wu Huang's height is measured barefoot, according to the unwritten rules of the NBA, the height he reported will increase by 3cm, that is to say, the official height of the player is the height after wearing shoes, and Wu Huang's official height is now 191cm.

USC last year's core OJ Mayo, his bare foot height was actually only 192cm, but it was 196cm at the time of the draft, and this 4cm of moisture cast a shadow over Mayo's future in the NBA.

This year's champion Derry Kroos, at the time of the draft, was 191cm, in fact, his bare foot height is only 188cm, and his height is about the same as the current Wu Huang, but the arm span of the two is a big difference, Wu Huang's arm span is a cut longer than that of a player of the same height, and the height in place is a little higher than DeRozan.

During this period of time in the team's training, Wu Huang can often grab double-digit rebounds, his arm span advantage is too great, his feet are flexible, and his bounce is good, so he can often grab rebounds on the heads of interior players.

Floyd predicted that Wu Huang would likely have more than five rebounds this season.

"Go back and pay attention to your diet, you know what not to eat, your body fat percentage is perfect if it drops below 8%." Before Emperor Wu left, Freud did not forget to advise.

Floyd's biggest concern now is that Wu Huang will get into cigarettes, alcohol, or dama or something, this disciple is arguably the most talented and well-behaved college player he has seen in his coaching career, and as long as he doesn't go down the wrong path, he will definitely become a great NBA star in the future.

Wu Huang was a perfect teammate and disciple in front of his coach and teammates during this time, but it was very tiring to continue acting like this, and Wu Huang also felt a little abusive about himself, how could there be such a perfect person in this world?

That's what DeRozan thought, he always felt that Emperor Wu was a hypocritical villain, and deep down he must be a mean and shameless bastard.

Wu Huang knows very well that DeRozan has always been unhappy with him, but he needs such an opponent, otherwise how can those teammates who pat themselves on the back have an excuse to slap him?

DeRozan and Mugaquin don't know that the biggest reason why they are isolated by other teammates is actually because they don't deal with Wu Huang, who is the core of the team, and it is conceivable how others will stand on the team.

Wu Huang and his teammates parted in the parking lot, politely declined the invitation to the party of captain Gibson, and tonight he had his own activities, and he finally asked Taylor Swift to have dinner with him.

Since the last invitation to Taylor Swift was rejected, Emperor Wu did not dare to act rashly, even if he often met in the library, he did not dare to ask for a drink or something. This time, Taylor Swift took the initiative to invite him to dinner, so Wu Huang was happy all afternoon.

This was the first time the two had sat down to eat together, Wu Huang and Taylor Swift were the same age, and after chatting, he learned that the two families lived very close to each other when they were children, and even lived in the same building, but they never met in an apartment. However, when they were in the fifth grade of the same junior high school, they met in the hallway, but they didn't have much of an impression.

"We are in the same middle school, how can we only meet a few times?" Wu Huang always felt that it was unscientific. ，

"Because I transferred schools, I started studying at home in my sophomore year of high school, completed the remaining three years of the course in 18 months, and then officially started my career as a singer." Taylor Swift said.

The two chatted until midnight, and Wu Huang felt that the topics between the two seemed endless.

Taylor Swift also found that she and Wu Huang had a lot in common, and since that match, the two of them have finally crossed paths like two parallel lines.

Emperor Wu didn't send Taylor Swift back to his apartment until after midnight, but she didn't feel sleepy at all, pestering the sleepy-eyed Emma Roberts about the date.

"You know, our childhood memories, our familiar places, and even many mutual friends, all overlap. Also, I found him to be funny and smart, and even overdid it when he was amused, but I would find it more interesting that way. ”

Emma Roberts had already finished taking a shower and was ready to go to bed, but was forcibly pulled up from the bed by Taylor Swift, and at this moment Little Radish Shred's head couldn't help but fall, and her eyelids closed involuntarily, and she said weakly: "Damn, I have to play tomorrow, you won't let me sleep, if I lose the game, you are the only one who asks." ”

Hearing this, Taylor Swift laughed, "Stupid, isn't your game postponed for a day?" ”

Emma Roberts was a little more awake: "yes, then I'm going to sleep too, you can let me go." ”

The next day, Wu Huang really got up late, and by the time he arrived at school, the time had already reached 9:30.

"Hugo is miserable, this time an hour and a half late." Bart and the rest of his teammates had already warmed up, the team had started training, and Wu Huang was late.

Floyd's face is not very good-looking, tonight's game is very important, when Wu Huang is late is not good, he should be late today.

"The rules of the Trojans, you should know." Freud looked at his proud disciple in a bad mood.

"200 push-ups." Wu Huang didn't explain why he was late, let alone trying to fool around with 100 push-ups, this was the second time he was late.

After Wu Huang did 200 push-ups, Floyd gathered his team and began to explain the evening game to the players.

In the past few days, the Trojans have been practicing "pick-and-roll tactics" and "outside three-point tactics" in order to deal with Connectn's high-school forward Thabit through pick-and-roll and positional cover.

Floyd watched a lot of footage of last year's UConn's game, and it's no surprise that this team is sure to do well.

USC is now going to find out what might come in handy at the National Championships, when it was a winner-or-loser, and they had to have a thorough understanding of all the potential opponents.

Tabit is the favourite for next year's top pick, much more famous than Wu Huang and DeRozan, and unless he doesn't play well in the national championships, he will definitely be selected in the top five.

Such a player, not to mention whether he can play in the NBA, must have a strong dominance in the NCAA anyway, and his role is like Howard of the current Magic team, and one person can change the overall strength of a team.

Freud knew very well that with his team's two centers whose real height was less than 205cm, they couldn't carry this level of interior at all. Since you can't fight on the inside, you can simply play a small lineup, wrap Tabit on the defensive end, play a fast attack on the offensive end, and counterattack when you have the opportunity, in short, you just want one word - "Fast!" ”

In order for such a tactic to be effective, in addition to point guards and interior players like Wu Huang and Gibson, it also needs to have excellent backcourt players, and DeRozan must also come in handy. However, Floyd did not plan to let DeRozan play in this game, and the edges and corners of this genius still need to be sharpened.

The core of the Trojans has long been determined, and this season, the whole team will develop tactics around Wu Huang. Therefore, in the preseason, Wu Huang can show his edge, and it is better to let all potential opponents focus on him and ignore the threat of DeRozan.