Chapter 267: Days at Princeton (5)
"I didn't expect us to be able to enter the final four so easily, it's unbelievable!"
"yes, in the first two years of my school, I didn't play in March almost every year, but this year we are almost in the finals, it's unbelievable!"
"You know, what fell in front of us this year, but the traditional strong teams, what Penn, Wake Forest, Syracuse University, etc., the next one is North Carolina!"
"If the University of Michigan hadn't exploded, North Carolina would be the next opponent!"
Junxin and Coach Pique stood next to the training hall, patiently watching the players in the distance talking and laughing. They didn't bother, the players have their own space, there is no need to be so strict, and besides, they just won the eight-in-four game, it's time to relax and let their elastic nerves release a little, which is also a good choice.
"Do you have any special approach to North Carolina?" Coach Pique looked at Jun Xin, who was nominally his assistant but was actually the real head of the Princeton Tigers, and asked respectfully.
Junxin didn't answer Coach Pique's question, in fact, he didn't care about his boss's question at all. My thoughts had already drifted to other places inadvertently.
North Carolina State University, or North Carolina for short, is not necessarily as well-known in the education world, and even in the sports world now as it will be in the future, although North Carolina has always been a sports powerhouse.
But what really made North Carolina famous around the world was a talented basketball player who had just entered college, Michael Jordan. And Junxin's thoughts at this time drifted to the body of this absolute god in the basketball world.
"What do you think of North Carolina?" After a long time, Junxin embarrassedly asked Coach Pique.
"North Carolina is very strong, and this year is not their peak year, the team is still in the run-in period!" Although Coach Pique said that his coaching ability is not very good, his vision is still very good. At least he saw that although the foundation of North Carolina has not yet fully grown, in a sense, North Carolina already has the potential to be a champion.
"It doesn't matter anyway, it's already difficult for us to get to this point this year, it's good to be able to go further, if not, it's not a big deal!" Although I really want to say a hard word, I think that the strength of my team is really not at the same level compared to the other three teams. Even if Junxin's ability is against the sky, it has already brought the team's ability to the limit, and it is a bit too difficult to go further.
Except for Princeton, which unexpectedly reached the semifinals this year, the other three teams are very stable and have always been recognized by the media as strong teams, North Carolina, Duke, and Connectnate, any of which surpasses Junxin's Princeton.
"That's all there is to it!" Coach Pique also shook his head in disappointment and said, in fact, he also thinks that the team's schedule this year is almost over here, but in the end it has reached the semi-finals, looking at the championship trophy that is already close at hand, in the end it is still a little unbearable, but the reality makes Coach Pique very sad.
Junxin is very optimistic about this, in fact, when the time enters late March, he has more and more things on his hands. The matter of the basketball team has had a certain impact on his academic research, so even if Junxin does his best, the influence of the outside world on him will inevitably be brought to this team. At present, the team still relies more on his tactical command, so even if the venue of this year's game has been moved to the world-famous University of California, Los Angeles, Junxin will not have time to visit this school that is not only famous for sports, but also for academic research is also the best in the world.
For UCLA, Junxin's initial impression was that the person with the highest IQ in the world, Tao Zhexuan, a Chinese mathematician from Australia, was only 21 years old and became a full professor in the mathematics department of this highly inclusive university, and he was also the youngest full professor at this university.
The mathematics department at the University of California is very good, not only because of Tao Zhexuan, but also because he is one of the few university mathematics departments that can be compared with the mathematics departments of Harvard and Princeton. Therefore, in the list of schools visited by Junxin, UCLA is a school that must be visited for exchange.
However, the current situation is that after the Princeton University Tigers came to this place, Junxin couldn't find free time to have a good academic exchange with his peers. Although his work ethic kept him racking his brains for a way to win, he inevitably became a little absent-minded.
However, Princeton rarely reached the final four once, and the team's players became very excited about the record of reaching the final four at an almost record-setting level.
In fact, in Junxin's time list, not only to visit UCLA in March, but also to have some topics and research that need to be completed at the end of March, because of the basketball thing, there is inevitably a backlog, which makes him very helpless.
Junxin has never been a sports enthusiast, and although he played with the Princeton Tigers to a brilliant result that made history, there was nothing that made him feel accomplished. The only thing that made basketball worth it for such a long time was that during the NCAA League, through a lot of practice and mathematical modeling, he obtained first-hand information about the relationship between sports and mathematics. For Junxin, who is just starting to study biology, these digital changes from the digital training process of Princeton University Tigers players have helped him to a certain extent.
What's more, Junxin used these data and moved it to the mathematics synthesis class he presided over, and unfolded it in front of the teachers and students of the whole school in Princeton in the form of practical cases. At the same time, these data have also become Junxin's free time in these days, and the problems generated during his tactical training during this period of time are not very thick, but very practical basketball books, which can be said to be the only consolation.