Chapter 64: Top Eight of the Ten Schools Alliance

After months of competition, the NCAA regular season has finally come to an end, and the dust has settled on each league's standings. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 InfoCompared to the NBA's regular season of 82 games per season, NCAA players are much more relaxed, although they don't have as long a season as NBA players, but they have far fewer games to play than each other, and many NBA players also play preseasons, which means they play about 90 games a season. If the team makes the playoffs, in a best-of-seven playoff game, even if it is a sweep in each round, it will have to play 16 games, which is much harder than the NCAA players.

At the end of the regular season, each league will only be ranked according to the record within that league. Losses to the University of Iowa and the University of Memphis at UCLA don't affect their standings, and the kind of games against teams in other leagues are mainly used to sharpen themselves or raise their profile, but when the NCAA officially selects non-league champion teams to enter the tournament, the team's performance in these games can come in handy.

In the end, the ranking of the Pacific 10 League is:1. UCLA; 2. Stanford University; 3. University of Washington; 4. University of Southern California; 5. University of Arizona; 6. University of Oregon; 7. University of Arizona; 8. University of Washington; 9. University of California, Berkeley; 10. Oregon Great. With the exception of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Oregon, which are eliminated in the last two places, the remaining eight schools will decide the league champion in a head-to-head manner. The two games in the top half are UCLAVS University of Washington, USC vs University of Arizona; The bottom half of the game is Stanford University vs. the University of Arizona, and Washington State vs. the University of Oregon.

For UCLA, the University of Washington is a tough opponent. The only threat on their team is junior Joan Brockman, a team that was actually quite strong in the 2005-06 season, and the team's top name Brandon Roy has already made his mark in the NBA as the leader of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Brockman joined the University of Washington Husky Dogs that season. But time has passed, and the strength of this team has declined rapidly, and if it weren't for the fact that there are two teams at the bottom of the league, they may not even have a chance to participate in the championship race.

In the face of such a team, Holland naturally used a large rotation lineup to show the faces of the substitutes, but his ultimate goal is to give the main players more rest time and reserve physical energy for the next games. Although there are not many games and the schedule is not so intense, the players will be physically and mentally tired for a whole season, and it is not possible to cope with the tournament in this state, and Holland can only use the game against the weak team to give them a good rest. Fortunately, the benches were also very competitive, and under the leadership of Collison and Enrique, they easily defeated the University of Washington 82-69 to become the first team to advance to the final four.

The other games followed, with both the University of Washington and the University of Southern California winning their respective matches, with the only one in the top four being Stanford, who lost a surprise loss to the University of Arizona. But experts and fans who watched the whole game thought that Stanford lost unjustly, Kevin O'Neal was very smart, he knew that Stanford University had more than half of the strength in Lopez, so he arranged for Jordan Hill, a "black and hard" rough brother, to completely give up the offense, that is, to get Lopez on the inside, entangled until he couldn't catch the ball. Bayless and Battinger on the perimeter took advantage of the opportunity to hit back-to-back shots to put the University of Arizona in halftime to take the lead, and Stanford was unable to reverse it in the end.

In addition to the upset of Stanford's loss, there was also an extremely talented player in the first round, James Harden from Arizona. Although the team finally lost to the University of Southern California, led by Mayo, 69-73, Harden's performance in the game was no less than that of Mayo, who had long been famous, with 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in the game, which was already comparable to Mayo's 23 points and 10 rebounds. And more importantly, Harden is also a freshman who entered in 2007, and many media have said that this year's freshmen are quite good, and there are other talented young players who are gradually emerging in addition to Mayo, Ye Feng and Love, which is enough to prove the attraction of the Pacific 10-School League to talented high school students.

With March Madness coming into time for the NCAA, the game moved pretty quickly. After the eight-in-four match, the four teams that qualified only had a one-day break before facing their second opponent again. This time it's UCLAVS USC, University of Arizona vs Washington State University. During the regular season, USC suffered two consecutive losses at UCLA, how could a proud Mayo not have any ideas? Although he admires Ye Feng's ball skills, it doesn't mean that he has to be restrained. But he didn't expect Ye Feng to continue to grow taller in his freshman season, from 195cm to 201cm when he entered school, originally the height difference between the two was not far behind, but now in terms of height and physical fitness, Ye Feng can almost completely suppress Mayo.

And USC is similar to many of the NCAA's mid-range teams, basically a one-man team of geniuses, and as long as they can beat that person, they can beat the whole team. But in 2013, Luke Hancock, a small forward from the University of Louisville, stepped off the bench to become the MOP (Most Outstanding Player) of the NCAA Final Four, and was affectionately nicknamed by fans after a movie - Hancock, the All-Man Superman. But players like Hancock are just an exception, more schools are supported by only one or two excellent players, and Southern California is no exception, Ye Feng suppressed Mayo, and UCLA's victory is logical.

When the final whistle blew, Mayo stood up from the bench and looked at the blood-red numbers on the scoreboard, feeling slightly disappointed, but not depressed, because based on USC's performance this season, they still have a good chance of being selected by the NCAA to make it to the round of 64. He walked up to Ye Feng and said solemnly: "Ye, you are really strong, even if you are defeated three times in a row, I still hope that you can become the champion of this alliance." But we at USC are still likely to get a tournament spot, and if we can meet at that time, let's go back to the showdown, and I hope you don't get eliminated too soon! ”

Ye Feng felt that Mayo was very interesting, let's say he was arrogant, he could admit his shortcomings, and say that he was humble, the last sentence sounded very strange. He smiled and said, "I'll give you that last sentence, but I'll accept your challenge on behalf of us at UCLA, and if we do meet in a tournament, that may be your fourth defeat." Mayo rolled his eyes, leaving only Ye Feng with an unruly back.

In contrast to UCLA's devastating victory, the University of Arizona and the University of Washington State are in a tug-of-war. In terms of lineups, the center of gravity of both sides is similar, with the University of Arizona being the troika of Bayles, Badinger and Hill, while the University of Washington State is similar, with the focus of their attack on Kyle Weaver and Derek Rowe, in addition to Australian center Aaron Baines. Interestingly, Luo is also another China-related player in the Pacific 10 League in addition to Ye Feng. But unlike Ye Feng, who is purely Chinese, Luo is an ABC born in Honolulu, Hawaii, that is, Chinese-American, but he has probably become the most successful basketball player in Hawaiian history.

In this semifinal, Baines and Hill formed a mutual explosion, but because Baines was too tall, the University of Washington had a huge advantage in rebounding. However, Weaver and Rowe failed to block Bayless and Battinger on the outside, especially Battinger, strictly speaking, Battinger's position is a small forward, locking Bayless is already the limit of Weaver and Rowe, but Washington State big small forward Davin Hamelin is helpless with Badinger.

The score between the two sides has been tight, and there were 23 times in the game, which is a rare spectacle in the NCAA. With Bayless in trouble, Battinger stepped up and took the team's gun to counter Washington State's huge rebounding advantage and even dragged the game into overtime. Indeed, on the basketball court, rebounding is the lifeline of a team, and the shooting rate of inside scoring is always higher than that of the outside.

But the outcome of the game may have been predestined, because Battinger's last rebound behind the rebound was completely replicable, and when Batinger made a shot, the final whistle had already sounded, which was a stunner who did not give a way out at all. In the end, the University of Arizona once again completed the feat of Lower Gram, defeating the University of Washington State, which ranked third in the league, and successfully met UCLA in the finals. This is not uncommon in NCAA history, but the Pacific-10 Collegiate League, as the NCAA's Division I league, is comparable to the Rockets winning the championship in sixth place in the West.

UCLA has a psychological advantage over the University of Arizona, but others don't see it that way, and perhaps they prefer to see this dark horse go black and become the champion of the Pacific 10 League. But would UCLA let something like this happen?