Kanagawa Prefecture's record in recent years can be described as outstanding.

Hainan University has always been the number one signboard of Kanagawa Prefecture in the past, ranking among the top eight all year round, and it is a veritable powerhouse. The year before, they had once again achieved impressive results, advancing to the semi-finals.

But this time, their limelight was covered by another team from the same county, that is, Xiangyang.

Before recruiting Atsushi Shihara and hiring Mitsuyoshi Anzai, Xiangyang was only a county-level powerhouse that occasionally appeared in national competitions, and being able to break through the first round was their biggest achievement before.

However, this time, after they defeated Hainan in the prefecture and shook Kanagawa, they once again shocked the whole country.

The runner-up team of the previous year, the giant Boduo Shang, who was more famous than Hainan, hated Xiangyang in the quarterfinals.

In this game, Atsushi Shihara scored 42 points alone and grabbed 27 rebounds, which made Hakata Shang, who is known for his defense, lose face, and also made the name Atsushi Shihara resound in the national basketball world.

It is a pity that in the second day's competition, Xiangyang continued to face last year's champion Mountain King. Although Atsushi Shihara made a big show and defeated the opponent's ace Saionji Takuya, and included the name of the first center in the national high school, it still couldn't cover up the overall decline of Xiangyang, and finally lost by only 2 points and stopped in the semifinals.

This year, it was Horiyuo from Fukui who won the team's second national championship trophy after defeating Hainan and the tired Sanno in succession.

has the strength of the champion, but due to the lack of heritage, he was unable to continue after encountering strong enemies in a row, and he was defeated back to Kanagawa Xiangyang, and within half a year, he made a comeback.

In the Winter Cup, Xiangyang, who lost his third-year player, was much calmer, playing more like a whole, and finally won his first championship.

From then on, Xiangyang was out of control and took all the honors in his pocket.

In the second year's national competition, although many heroes made targeted arrangements for Atsushi Shihara when facing Xiangyang, Xiangyang, who joined Okazakihama, was even stronger and easily crushed all obstacles.

And Hainan, which is still stronger than previous years, lost to Xiangyang again in the semifinals and ranked in the top four.

The tragic situation of losing to Xiangyang several times in a row has caused Hainan's morale to plummet, although most of the third-year players remained, but they still lost to Lingnan in the Winter Cup and failed to qualify.

In last year's Winter Cup, Lingnan, who retained all the main players in the third grade, only reached the top 16 in the end.

The reason why they did not get the ideal results was not because of Lingnan's lack of strength or lack of experience, but because they, like Hainan, met the prosperous Xiangyang in advance and had to terminate their schedule in advance.

Unlike the national competition, the Winter Cup is not shy away from the same county, as there is only one place for each county. A total of 50 teams from all 47 prefectures in Japan, including the winners and runners-up of the national tournament and the organizers of the Winter Cup, competed.

Therefore, Lingnan only played two rounds in the Winter Cup and met Xiangyang, the double champion of IH and Winter Cup that year, and his luck was really bad enough.

But having said that, the two rounds of knockout matches in Lingnan are still full of gold.

In the first round, facing Urayasu Commercial, one of the top eight of IH, Lingnan easily won with a score of 105-87.

In the second round, facing Hyogo's Haoqiang Kitanozaka High School, Lingnan won by nearly twice the score difference, with a score of 124-66.

With a sharp forward line, a calm outside line, Lingnan, who has a stronger lineup than this year, according to the words of the commentators, maybe he can play one or two more rounds, and even meet Xiangyang in the finals!

The two top 4 winners of the national competition and the Winter Cup the year before last, the two championships of the national competition and the Winter Cup last year, plus the top 4 and top 16 that were stopped by their own people, made the officials of the Kanagawa Prefecture Sports Bureau of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture particularly bold when they were trying to increase the number of places in the prefecture.

On the other hand, Nagasaki, Hokkaido and other prefectures, because of the poor results of the teams in the prefecture, speak much quieter, for fear that their two qualifying places will be reduced to one.

After a heated discussion, the organizing department agreed to expand the total number of participating teams to 60, and this extra place was allocated to Kanagawa and Akita, with Kanagawa's third place and Akita's second place in a play-off match.

In the national college basketball map, Yamano in Akita, Hori in Fukui, Luoan in Kyoto, and Kanayama Commercial in Niigata are all strong and powerful with championship records, and these four prefectures have only one qualifying place, so they have a high call for increasing the number of qualifying places.

The reason why the extra half of the place other than Kanagawa this time was given to Akita is also because Akita's mountain king has won the most championships in history.

Regardless of what everyone said about the extra play-off spots in Xiangbei, Minami Tara continued to announce this year's top five players: Atsushi Shihara (center), Ayumi Fushishi (power forward), Okazaki Hama (small forward), Shoichi Imaiyoshi (shooting guard), Takumi Okawa (point guard), and best newcomer: Joichiro Roubayashi.

In the center forward position, although Atsushi Shihara did not play in the third game, and the first two games were basically only played for half of the game, but in view of the fact that among the top four, the center forwards of the remaining three teams, whether it is Miyagawa, Mitsuhashi or Takagaki, are more than one step behind Ziyuan, this award is still awarded to Ziyuan.

There is also controversy over the selection of the Bu Shi Bu. However, Ashensaki only played one game against Xiangbei, while Tokuda played one less game, Yoshino lacked offensive data, and although Hainan was still at the bottom in the end, there was still one personal honor.

In the small forward position, only Lingnan's Baoke can compete with Xiangyang's Okazakihama, but it's just a competition. As last year's rookie of the year, Okazaki is obviously much stronger than Hoko, who has not won this honor this year, and it is easy to become one of the top five star players in the prefecture.

The selection of Takumi Ogawa and Shoichi Imyoshi is not surprising. However, how to arrange the positions of the two made the organizing committee really brainless.

Dahe, as a point guard, dragged Xiangbei forward, scoring more than 30 points in each game, and was a veritable scoring champion in this county competition!

Although Imayoshi scored more points than Dahe in the game where the two faced each other, the average per game was still less than that of Dahe. At the same time, in several games in which Kuroko Tetsu was also targeted and performed poorly, Imyoshi also took on the task of organizing, and the total number of assists was 3 more than that of Taiga, which won him the title of assist king.

In the end, the organizing committee still made an allocation according to the positions on the two of them.

The best newcomer is the least suspenseful, whether it is Yuito Hoshina in Lingnan, Kosuke Wakamatsu, or Hiroyuki Maki in Xiangbei, they can't catch up with Shoichiro Honglin in terms of performance.