Chapter 65: An Unexpected Audience
After Yang Li conducted an exclusive interview with Chen Dao, she cast a shadow on her original good impression of that junior.
Not only her, all girls like confident and sunny boys, but once they are overconfident, they will be annoying.
After the school team had an open training session, she had been there to watch it, and she had seen Chen's performance, and she was amazed by his magical passes.
However, basketball still has to use scoring to determine the winner after all, and Chen Zhi's scoring ability is far less amazing than passing.
After thinking about it for a while, Yang Li decided to conduct an exclusive interview with the guy named Li Xuedong, although he was not the captain, his popularity in the school was far higher than that of the captain Chen Zhi.
After receiving three "ums" in succession, Yang Li directly gave up talking to this guy.
One is cold, the other is overconfident!
These are the two cores of this year's varsity team?
After a short interview, Yang Li's original lack of optimism has turned into despair...
As a unit with many years of experience in hosting qualifiers, Agricultural University is obviously familiar with the arrangement of reception work.
The Yang University varsity, which arrived one day earlier, went to the hotel to check in under the guidance of the reception staff, and also received the match table.
After Jiang Lanyue looked at the matchup table, she handed it to Chen Dao.
Chen Zhi took the form and looked at it, there are 14 teams participating in the CUBA League this year, 4 more than last year's 10 teams.
But he wasn't surprised, because it was all expected.
In the past, in addition to CUBA, there was also a CUBS University Super League, but CUBS was officially absorbed into CUBA this year, so naturally there will be more participating teams.
At the same time, the number of teams in the CUBA National Championship has also increased from the top 16 to the top 24, with an increase of eight teams.
The top six teams from the Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest regions can enter the national competition.
The rules of this year's grassroots competition are the same as last year, divided into two stages, the first stage is a single round-robin group, and the 14 teams are roughly divided into two groups, A and B, according to the results of last year's grassroots competition, with 7 teams in each group.
At this stage, each team and the opponent in the same group play once, with a win worth 2 points and a loss worth 1 point. This is how the group is ranked.
The second stage is the cross-elimination round, where the top two teams in Group A and the top two in Group B are crossed, i.e. A1 vs. B2 and B1 vs. A2. The winning teams compete for the championship and runner-up, while the losing teams can only compete for the third and fourth.
The rankings of other teams are so high.
Therefore, for teams that want to make it out of the grassroots qualifiers, they must at least finish in the top two of the group in order to qualify.
Chen Zhi looked at the specific grouping situation again.
Yangda was divided into Group A, and the same group was the University of Science and Technology, the University of Petroleum, Lu Institute of Technology, Lu Industry and Commerce, as well as Liao University and Linda.
During this time, Chen Zhi through the introduction of Song Lei and other veteran players, he generally had a vague understanding of the strength of the teams of various colleges and universities, and the University of Science and Technology is undoubtedly the favorite to qualify, and the petroleum and science and engineering are also relatively powerful teams, but there is a big gap with the University of Science and Technology.
The seven teams in Group B are Agricultural University, Shandong University, Haida University, Yantai University, Deyuan, Ludong and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Shanda and Haida have the ability to challenge Agricultural University, while other teams are slightly inferior.
The accommodation of the school team members who came to participate in the competition was arranged by the organizer, and Li Wei and others wanted to stay, but were told that the room was full, so they could only find hotel accommodation by themselves.
Yang Li is more lucky, she can be with Jiang Lanyue, who got a room alone, after all, she is the head coach of the team, and Jiang Lanyue's treatment is not bad.
After that, Jiang Lanyue was invited to participate in the team leader and coach meeting, and Chen Zhi and others went to the gymnasium separately to familiarize themselves with the venue.
On November 23rd, it had been a while since the beginning of winter, and the air in the morning was already cold in winter, but it was indeed warm as spring in the competition venue.
At 8:10 a.m., Polytechnic vs. Yangda officially started as the opening match of this competition.
It was probably because there were fewer highlights in the grassroots competition, and at the same time, the time was relatively early, and it was Monday, and there were few spectators in the venue, which made Chen Zhi's enthusiasm for the performance suddenly cool down a little.
However, there is also a benefit, that is, the players on both sides are more relaxed and have friendly exchanges with each other.
"It's a pity that you Yangda, the two cores are all retired, and they are about to fall before they rise!" The No. 8 team member of the Polytechnic University warmly shook Gu Fei's hand and said with a look of pity.
"I heard that your women's basketball team has always been very powerful, shouldn't the men's basketball team consider disbanding!" Gu Fei held each other with both hands, responded warmly, and at the same time sincerely suggested.
Chen Zhi listened to the conversation between the two and couldn't help but smile.
I didn't expect CUBA to have this kind of trash talk, but both of them have a certain level of speech, and the degree of trash talk is just right.
"Friend, isn't it a pleasure to be able to come to participate in the CUBA competition", Chen Zhi said in front of him wearing the No. 10 jersey, "However, I still recommend that you continue to go home and develop, the arena is very dangerous for children!" ”
As he spoke, he gestured with his hand, and the height difference between the two was 20 centimeters!
"I'm X!" Chen Zhi scolded secretly when he heard this, and his height on the court was indeed easy to be the target of the opponent's attack.
"It seems that you like to talk about it, let's cooperate well in a while!" Chen Zhi said to him with a smile.
Number 10 smiled when he heard the words to show his contempt, but he was a little puzzled by Chen Zhi's words, what did he mean?
Of course, this incomprehension cannot be expressed on the face.
The referee stood aside and quietly listened to the confrontation between the two teams, and he couldn't find a dirty word, otherwise he would not hesitate to take out the card to show that it violated sportsmanship!
Jiang Lanyue sat in the coach's seat, and could only see the lips of the players on both sides moving from a distance, and she couldn't help much with this kind of verbal swords.
The game was about to start, but Jiang Lanyue turned her head to the audience.
Because the two teams entered the stadium one after the other when the game was about to start.
With a small audience, their presence is naturally very eye-catching.
That's the team of the University of Science and Technology and the University of Agriculture! After Jiang Lanyue saw the situation clearly, her brows furrowed!
The arrival of HKUST is good to explain, YDA is in the same group as them, and there will be a match against the University of Petroleum shortly after.
And the most recent game of the Agricultural University was also in the afternoon!
She glanced at the bracket and realized that she was not mistaken.
Why are they here to watch the Yangda game? As for the science and technology, Jiang Lanyue would not think that these two teams would attach so much importance to them.
However, the retirement of Li Wei and Zhou Yu is well known, and even when they were there, they did not pose much of a threat to them, if it weren't for the 3 places last year, Yangda would not have been qualified to enter the divisional competition.
Why do these two teams attach so much importance to Yangda? Jiang Lanyue couldn't help frowning.
Even if they want to understand Yangda's strength, at most they will send one or two people over to check it out, and there is no need to be there at all!
Jiang Lanyue even saw Yang Guang, the champion of the University of Science and Technology, in the team of the University of Science and Technology, he was still an assistant coach last year, and this year he has officially become the head coach of the University of Science and Technology, and there is a slightly old figure beside him, that is Liu Xiyou, the assistant coach of the University of Science and Technology, who has just abdicated to give up the position of head coach.
Their appearance today is absolutely extraordinary!