The warm-up match with famous friends was Xiangbei's last battle before going to Hiroshima.

Although it was easy to win, everyone had to admit that Mingpeng was still a very strong team, and if it was strengthened in those two weak positions, it would be a strong opponent not inferior to Xiangyang.

Mori Shigekuan came with a bit of a nobody's nose in his eyes, but when he left, his head was hanging down.

Akagi and Sakuragi taught him a solid lesson, letting him know that talent alone is not enough to dominate the national arena.

Mori Zhong lost without temper, but he refused to admit defeat, and when he left, he said that he would definitely fight in Xiangbei again in the national competition, which impressed Akagi Sakura.

However, Akagi and the others all think that even if Mori Chong grows, it is impossible for famous friends to hit Xiangbei.

The schedule of the national competition coincided with the distribution of the Basketball Magazine to each participating team.

Mingtomo was the number one leader in Aichi Prefecture, and they defeated Aiwa Gakuin, the former overlord of Aichi Prefecture, to reach the top. In this way, Aihe's seeded team in the IH Division 4 obtained by winning the championship in the East China Sea Regional Conference was included in the bag by famous friends.

Mingpeng is in the fourth division, while Xiangbei is in the third division. If you want to fight in Xiangbei again, Mingpeng has to reach the top four, which is an extremely difficult task, and with their lineup with obvious shortcomings, the hope of success is very slim.

The teams that qualify for the play-offs have always been placed in the fourth division. Although this game was not played until half a month later, Suzuki and Akagi both believed that this place belonged to Lingnan.

Akita's second place and the third place loss to Kanagawa in the play-offs are almost a tradition.

Nothing about strength.

If you want to break this tradition, it is obviously impossible to expect the third place in Kanagawa to be weak, so it will only depend on when Akita Prefecture does not have enough points and is overtaken by Fukuoka Prefecture and loses that half of the place.

Famous friends can beat Hainan by a small margin, and Lingnan also beat Hainan by a small margin in the previous county competition. Taking Hainan as a reference, the strength of the two teams is equal. In this battle between the two heroes, Xiangbei is more optimistic about Lingnan.

This is not only an emotional bias, but also a consideration of the overall strength of the two teams.

Compared with Xiangbei and Xiangyang, the strength of Lingnan's rotation lineup is relatively average. However, after comparing the strength of famous friends, everyone has to admit that Miyagi and Fukuda, which are regarded as the shortcomings of Lingnan in the county competition, are all backbone players who can take charge of themselves in the national arena, and Yonekawa, Yamamoto, cross-country, and Uecao are also qualified as rotations.

Suzuki, Akagi and others agreed that even if Lingnan even beat the North Eagle and Kazami, and fought again to wait for the famous friends, it would not be affected in terms of physical strength, but would be in a state due to the successive battles, and the combat effectiveness would increase.

Looking at the teams in the fourth division, it can basically be judged that the team that will play against them in the semi-finals is either Lingnan or Tokyo's No. 1 Xiude.

Having said that, in fact, Xiangbei's opponents in the third division are actually not easy to mess with.

The seeded team in this division is an old rival, Akita's Sanno.

Before challenging the king of the mountain, Xiangbei also had to pick off the second place in Fukuoka, Hojo Shisho, the first place in Shizuoka Tsuneko, and the first place in Osaka, Daiei Gakuen.

These teams are all well-known giants in the country, and each of them is a first-class team that has been evaluated as A-grade.

Of course, Xiangbei, as the second place in Kanagawa, is also A-file.

Together with the seeded team Mountain King, there are a total of five A-grade strong teams in the third division, which can be described as a veritable group of death.

"Basketball Magazine" generally divides the teams participating in the national competition into four tiers, mainly based on the results of each team in the past two years. Teams that have reached the top four in the country in the previous year, or teams that have been in the top eight in IH for two consecutive years, are considered first-class teams and are placed in Tier A. The results of the last Winter Cup, the weighting of each county, and the results of the county competitions are used as reference factors.

Xiangbei failed to qualify the previous year, and it was only the top 16 in the last session, and the historical record has no merit. However, Xiangbei defeated Hainan in the top four of IH last year and Lingnan in the top four of WC in the county competition, and played on par with Xiangyang, the king of the national AA file, and only lost 1 point.

Compared with Xiangbei, which has to play against four A-class teams, and Lingnan, which plays against three A-class teams, Xiangyang's treatment this year is much better than in previous years.

Although there are four A-tier teams in the first division where Shoyo is located, the three teams of Seirin in Tokyo, Aichi in second place Aiwa and Chiba first place Narita Chuo are all in the bottom half of the first division. Before meeting Xiangyang, these three A-grade strong teams had to divide the winners and losers first.

There are a total of sixteen A-tier teams in the country, and the last three are in the second division. They are the seeded teams in this region, the semi-finals of IH and WC last year, Hakata from Fukuoka, Toyotama from Osaka Prefecture and Kade Naxi from Okinawa.

Unsurprisingly, Hakata will be the easiest team to reach the semi-finals of this tournament, but they will still have to stop at the semi-finals. In the past two years, the Hakata twin stars Chiba Ichi and Ken Hoshino have been pressed by the Xiangyang twin stars Mitsui and Fuji Zhen and never turned over.

Xiangbei is the strongest in Kanagawa, and the schedule is the tightest, so Suzuki is preparing to increase physical training in the last month to ensure that the team's combat effectiveness can be guaranteed under the fierce battles.

In the sweltering heat of July, the team trained every day until after 9 or 10 p.m., which was very hard. However, no one in the whole team complained bitterly, and even Ino Yannen, Yamada Tada, Mito Yohei and Yuji Ohsumi, who were not among the main candidates, also accompanied the team to practice.

Everyone knows that Akagi, Mizuno, Takeyo, Ki Twilight, Shakura, and Hotta, half of the team members are already in the third grade, and this is their last tournament. If they can't produce results this year, then it will be difficult to wait for them to retire and come up with results.

Defeating Xiangyang and impacting the championship is the last chance for the third-year players, even the second-year players, this IH.

It was only in the last week before the race that Suzuki gradually reduced the amount of training to maintain it in a guaranteed state without being too tired.

Arrange the itinerary, food and accommodation, pack up the documents, and salute, these things are also time to be dealt with.

On this day, before it was dark, Suzuki announced the end of training and let everyone go home. Of course, there must be disobedient children in this group of energetic children, and they will continue to play secretly. For these, Suzuki can only tell him to exercise moderately, not to get hurt, and let it go.

When Suzuki took Sakuragi back to his residence, turned out from the corner of the street, and came to the door of the house, he suddenly saw a man and a woman standing at the door, approaching and talking intimately.

Twilight greeted the two of them, so that Suzuki couldn't see the faces of the two, but just from the figure, Suzuki recognized that the woman in them was his girlfriend, Momoi May.

Why did she suddenly go back to Fujisawa? Why not give a word of notice in advance?

Suzuki was full of suspicion and wanted to step forward to ask, but he couldn't take a step.