Chapter 27: The Regular Season Begins
"These guys like to find fault the most, but I still envy you, at least they will find fault with you, they don't know who I am." Bart held his notebook and saw a report on Emperor Wu and DeRozan, and was very envious.
"Your injuries should be healed, right?" Wu Huang has never cared about media reports, but he is quite sympathetic to this unlucky guy, he was injured in the first game of the preseason, and he only rejoined the team training a few days ago, and he didn't know if he could catch up with the first game of the regular season.
"My injuries were fine, it hurt for a few days at the beginning, and then I was waiting for a little recovery. But I still have vivid memories of the Panda team's loss to your goddamn Tianlu. Bart was still thinking about the WCG at the beginning of the month, the tragedy of the Panda team being eliminated again by Tianlu in the quarterfinals.
"Tianlu won the championship in the end, and the Panda team is not unjust for losing to the championship." Emperor Wu said with a smile.
This time, the WCG was held in Los Angeles, and Wu Huang's quarterfinals and final finals were all on site, and on the day the panda team was eliminated, he and Taylor Swift saw the sullen panda sister, that is, Emma Roberts, who was very impressed by the girl.
"I heard that you have her phone number, I want to ......" Bart knew that Emperor Wu had exchanged phone calls with Sister Panda that day, and he had always wanted to ask him, but he was too embarrassed to speak.
Wu Huang guessed his mind at a glance, and asked directly: "If you want her phone, I can give it to you, but don't say that I gave it." ”
When Bart heard this, his eyes lit up, but after hesitating for a long time, he still shook his head very carelessly: "Forget it, you gave me the phone without her permission, maybe she will block your phone together, and besides, I don't know what to do when I get her phone, don't tempt me anymore." ”
Emperor Wu smiled when he heard this, and said in his heart that you just don't have the guts, so he immediately stopped discussing this matter with him.
They just saw the schedule for the 2008-2009 Pacific Ten league season online, and this year the league has thirteen teams competing in regular seasons, each of which will compete in an intra-league tournament after 24 rounds.
Each of the NCAA's 31 leagues has its own committees that organize their regular season schedules, venues, and other matters, and the league's membership changes occasionally, coming in and out. This phenomenon has become popular in recent years, with good schools looking to join more competitive leagues in order to get more broadcast fees and attract better players.
Therefore, the "Pacific Ten Conference" is not limited to ten teams, the number of teams participating varies every year, and at most there are even fifteen teams playing the regular season together, almost catching up with half of the NBA's division.
The so-called "regular season" of the NCAA can be understood as the regular season, and the "tournament" is also the playoffs.
Since 1987 to 2008, all teams in the Pacific Ten have competed in regional tournaments, with the top six teams in the regular season seeded and given a bye in the first round of the tournament while the remaining teams compete for the remaining two spots.
Once the 8 teams are decided, the next schedule will be similar to the NBA playoffs, with regular season 1 vs regular season 8, 2nd vs 7, and so on. But the difference is that the Pacific Ten Conference tournament has only two games per round, home and away, a tie is considered a small score, and the winner can advance to the next round, not seven games like the NBA.
After 1990, the first place in the regular season and the championship winner of the Pacific Ten Conference entered the NCAA National Championship every time, so USC only needed to earn one of them to guarantee itself in the national championship.
The USC players actually know that even if they don't get two firsts, as long as they can break into the top three in the regular season, they can also guarantee a place in the national championship, because the Pacific Ten League has always been the strongest college league in the United States, surpassing the Big Ten (BIGTEN) and the Ivy League (IVYLEAGUE), and has always been in the United States hegemony.
UCLA, University of Arizona, Stanford University, University of Washington and USC in the Pacific Ten are all NCAA traditional powerhouses, and even the University of Washington, which has performed relatively poorly in recent years, has produced outstanding NBA players such as Jamal Crawford, Brandon Roy and Nate Robinson.
"It is said that this year's regular season attendance reached an average of 15,000 players per game to join our league, and I didn't expect that 13 teams would meet the requirements in the end." Gibson played four years in the NCAA and had only 10 teams competing in his first three seasons, and this season was the most for any team.
"Captain, do you know of a team with players as good as Hugo?" Bart asked the well-informed Gibson.
"In addition to Hugo and DeMar, the most famous in our league are Jerome Randle in Berkeley's junior, James Harden and Jordan Hill in Arizona sophomores, and Darren Collison in UCLA seniors." Gibson really knows a lot, and he knows a lot about the talented players in the league.
Wu Huang smiled: "The captain seems to have forgotten his name, but I came here." ”
DeRozan secretly cursed "sycophant" next to him, but quickly nodded his head, indicating that he was also admiring.
This kid is now a lot more well-behaved, and has learned to actively integrate into other people's circles, what Freud wants is for him to let go of his arrogance, and generally young and frivolous people will not end well.
The regular season of the Pacific Ten Conference will run from November to February, followed by an internal tournament for the top eight teams from the league's 13 teams, and when all the events are completed, the time will be in early March, almost to the national championship.
The NCAA major leagues have similar schedules, with more than 300 teams playing 30-40 games a year, which is about the same intensity as the CBA league in China.
USC's first opponent in the regular season is the University of Washington, which was originally expected to be UCLA, and the two city rivals are often chosen for the first matchup of the new season.
UCLA's strength this year is far less than last year's, after Westbrook, the core of the team, participated in the draft, they only had a senior Darren Collison left to pick the lead, and this year did not recruit first-year talents, as can be seen from the opponents they selected in the preseason, most of them are mid-stream teams in other leagues, and there are few traditional strong teams, which is obviously lacking in confidence.
The University of Washington had a good preseason and were an interesting team with the shortest back-up of more than 300 first-class teams - Isiah Thomas + Justin Duntmon.
Isiah Thomas is officially only 175cm tall, and is said to be fast, accurate in shooting, and capable of NBA-level breakouts.
Wu Huang and Bart found this guy's information from the Internet, and in his sophomore year of high school, Isaiah Thomas averaged 31.2 points per game, attracting the attention of college basketball circles. After graduating from high school, Thomas announced his joining the University of Washington. Coincidentally, there was also a small man at the University of Washington before, and his name was Nate Robinson.
As soon as he joined the university, Thomas was blessed by the senior, Nate Robinson personally gifted him the No. 2 jersey he wore, hoping that he would also have a bright future.
"He's fast, he's good at shooting and breakouts, and he's very good at all of his skills, so he's a tough role." Wu Huang discussed their first opponent with his teammates during the break.
"With a height of 175cm, how much of a threat can you be no matter how fast you are?" DeRozan is now privately talking to Emperor Wu, but he always has to go against him, but not with much malice.
"You can't be careless, if he can play as a starter at the University of Washington with his height, he must have extraordinary strength." Gibson is also cautious, this is the final year of his college career, and he doesn't want to lose a game because of carelessness.
"The captain was right, Nate Robinson is a good example, we can't afford to underestimate the enemy." The rich second-generation Bart usually stands with Wu Huang resolutely, the latter wants to maintain his image, and it is inconvenient to go-for-tat with DeRozan, so he is specifically responsible for suppressing the other party, and this follower is very competent.