Chapter 59: The First Seed

"I don't care about money, I won't lack that thing in the future, what I lack is honor, it's a championship, it's the recognition of the whole world!" After winning the championship, Wu Huang was interviewed by Sports Illustrated, becoming the first NCAA player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated this year.

Wu Huang's words made his news continue to rise, and also made the NBA team pay more attention to him.

The NBA has never lacked talent, but it has always lacked a paranoid man like Kobe Bryant who has a pathological quest for a championship!

Everyone knows that most of the black players in the NBA play for money, and once such players get a big contract, there is a high chance that they will start to mess around, indulge in the world of drunken flowers, and unbridled pleasures and women will quickly hollow out their bodies.

Every year in the NBA, there are garbage contracts with the highest salary, and there are too many examples of "flying down 3,000 feet" after two years of good play.

But for a player like Kobe, you don't need to worry about him being corrupted by money, in the eyes of this kind of person, the more money the better, and the girl can't be less, but in the end, "victory" and "championship" are the most important things, and they will not let go of any honor.

Wu Huang is not as extreme as Kobe, but he also doesn't care much about money, his character hides a desire for data and honor, and there is also a part of the sense of national responsibility, he has the desire to become a representative of the yellow race in his heart, and he wants to prove that the yellow race will never lose to black and white people in any field, even in basketball, a black exclusive sport recognized all over the world, he wants to make his name rank at the top of the Hall of Fame, in front of all black people.

This is the huge ambition that Emperor Wu hides in his heart, he doesn't dare to say it now, even he feels that to realize such a dream, the hope of success is very slim, as long as he thinks about the famous names in the Hall of Fame, Emperor Wu's ambition is almost breaking through the sky.

But only if he sets a goal big enough for himself, he will always have the motivation to move forward, because there are too many records and goals for him to surpass to achieve such a dream.

Eat one bite at a time, the road has to go step by step, at least he is now completing the goal of the current stage, Wu Huang has engraved his name on the three-point shot in front of all players in the past hundred years, but there are still several NCAA records waiting for him to break.

On the morning of March 18, the NCAA's famous "March Madness" officially kicked off. In the opening game, Mohyde State defeated Alabama State University in the Midwest Division and East Tennessee State University defeated Rodford University, making them the No. 16 seed in the Midwest and Eastern Divisions, and the 68 tournament teams were reduced to 64.

Two days later, the first round of the NCAA National Championship will begin, with 16 frantic matches taking place every day in four cities across the United States on March 20 and 21.

The NCAA National Round of 64 is divided into four divisions, each with one seeded team, and the four seeded teams are: University of Southern California, University of Pittsburgh, University of Connecticut, and University of North Carolina.

USC belongs to the Midwest Division, and they are not only the top seeds in their region, but also the top seeds of the top 64 teams in the country.

On March 20, USC will once again face Mohyde State University, the 16th seed in the region, at Staples Arena.

"March Madness" is coming, USC has begun the final preparations, as Floyd said, 64 teams are 0:0 in the national competition, although Mohyde State University is the worst of the 64 teams, but in a win-win game, USC still can't underestimate the enemy, they can't let their efforts in the past six months be useless because of carelessness.

USC's first game is still being played at Staples Arena, which is good news for USC, and playing in Los Angeles is the equivalent of playing on its home turf, which is one of the advantages that USC has gained as the top seed.

The Los Angeles Clippers had a game on the 20th, but the game was scheduled for the afternoon, and the USC game was scheduled for primetime in the evening.

In March, at the beginning of the NCAA National Championship, the NBA will gradually give way to the NCAA, even if it is a giant team like the Lakers and Celtics, the game time will be arranged in the afternoon as much as possible, the purpose is not to conflict with the NCAA game, and there will not be many people to watch the NBA game, this is the status of the NCAA in the United States.

The Clippers are now at the bottom of the league, and with the NBA regular season coming to an end, they are the most likely team to get the top pick. However, the team offered Byron Davis a five-year, $65 million contract last summer, and the 30-year-old beard is in his prime, so the Clippers are not short of a No. 1 spot.

But then again, the fact that the Clippers are now the bottom of the list also seems to indicate that Byron Davis has not helped the Clippers rise, he has almost never integrated into the team, and it is difficult to communicate with head coach Dunleavy, and the media has been spreading the news that Dunleavy Sr. and Byron Davis do not agree on the same philosophy and have constant conflicts in private.

On top of that, Byron Davis has unfortunately been plagued by injuries this season, missing 17 games this season, shooting only 37% from the field, and averaging 14.9 points per game.

Wu Huang was originally considered impossible by the media to get the top pick, the reason is that the Clippers have Byron Davis, and it just so happens that their interior core Elton Brand has left, and the Clippers lack a star inside, so they will definitely choose Griffin or Tabit.

But now that Byron Davis' performance has dropped significantly, the Clippers are likely to choose to trade the beard and choose Wu Huang.

The bottom-to-bottom team in the NBA is currently the Los Angeles Clippers, with the Memphis Grizzlies as the vice-leader, followed by the Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, and Minnesota Timberwolves.

Now that half of March has passed, plus half a month in April, there are about 10 regular season games for each team, and there may be some changes in this ranking, but Wu Huang's belonging can't escape these league fish belly teams.

"Where do you want to go?" Taylor Swift and Kristen have been asking him that a lot lately.

The former wants him to stay in Los Angeles, and naturally hopes that Wu Huang will be drafted by the Clippers.

The latter wanted Emperor Wu to leave Los Angeles in order to keep Emperor Wu away from Taylor Swift, which would make her feel more at ease.

Wu Huang doesn't care about himself, it's best to play in a big city, but if the Clippers don't choose him, there is no way to do it. Wu Huang can only try to let his performance outperform other talents, and maybe the Clippers will make up their minds to choose him, but who knows what will happen in the end, the result will only be revealed on June 25.

Before March Madness began, Forbes magazine published a survey that found that last season's NCAA basketball tournament had a 20-year high in viewership, with an average viewership of 10.3 million and an average of 22 million viewers for the National Final Four. Most of the games in such a non-professional league are concentrated in March every year, and even the NBA falls into a ratings slump in March every year.

The NCAA's "March Madness" (Final Four) ranks 6th in the United States in terms of brand value, higher than the 10th-ranked NBA, and far more than the Olympics and the World Cup.

They also conducted a statistic, taking last year as an example, the NCAA only 64 games of "March Madness" brought $930 million in TV advertising revenue to CBS and **, which is why several TV stations in the United States attach so much importance to "March Madness".

It is reported that because Wu Huang already has some fame in China, CCTV originally decided to broadcast the "Crazy March" game, but in the end, it was embarrassing to find that the broadcast fee of the NCAA game was actually higher than that of the NBA playoffs?

This is really unscientific, CCTV finally did not negotiate with the United States on the broadcast fee, and finally decided to broadcast only the semi-finals. But there is one condition, that is, the University of Southern California must successfully break into the semi-finals, otherwise without a Chinese face, CCTV will not spend such a big price to broadcast an American college basketball game, and this money is enough for them to broadcast 10,000 CUBA games.