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Chapter 39 March Madness

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March Madness!
March Madness, commonly known as the NCAA Tournament, is the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Men's Basketball Championship, established in 1939, and is one of the largest national sports events in the Federation.

Because most of the NCAA tournament games are played in March, commonly known as March Madness.

The NCAA Tournament is held from March to April every year. It implements a single-game elimination system, a game to determine the winner, a dark horse emerges, and the top overcomes the next. Countless exciting scenes and countless cheering moments are all based on this.

College sports competitions have always been the focus of national attention. Although basketball is far less influential than the rugby league held in the second half of the year, it is still crazy.

These days, countless gentlemen and ladies in the community are discussing, guess which university and which team will become the final winner?
Of course, most of them chose to support their alma mater. If their alma mater failed to break into March Madness, they would choose to support the team that broke into the same alliance. For the middle and upper class of the Federation, this is a grand event!
(Most of those who went to college are middle class!)

In Payton's home, Payton, Forrest, Joanna, and Jenny gathered in front of the TV, watching the basketball game inside.

This game is the University of San Francisco against the University of Iowa, which is the final of March Madness, and the winner will win the final championship.

It is still black and white TV, and the live broadcast of color TV has been publicized all the time, and technological breakthroughs can be heard every time, but they have not been fully applied, and it seems that it will take some time.

Speaking of it, black and white TV is very friendly to black people. Watching TV, as long as you are not pure black, such as (Curry, Thompson), it is difficult for you to tell which one is black and which one is white?

On TV, you don’t have to worry about respectable white people seeing black skin and feeling disgusted. Of course, this is also good for white people. They are niggas who don’t want to get close to black skin.

Now that I think about it, maybe black and white TV is just as good a solution to the racial problem as it is, and it's a good thing.

And the cause of the rights protection movement in the 60s was the large-scale popularization of color TV?
"Who do you think will win?" Jenny asked curiously.

Among the four, she belongs to the girl who doesn't know how to play football. Needless to say, Payton and Forrest,
And Joanna's grandfather is a basketball coach, and she is also the captain of the school's women's basketball team. She is definitely the basketball baby in the hearts of many boys.

Joanna stared at the TV excitedly, looking forward to the appearance of her favorite athlete. Hearing Jenny's question, Joanna said as it should: "Of course it is the University of San Francisco. This is a fact that the entire Federation knows!"

"Really?" Jenny looked at Peyton and Forrest suspiciously.

Forrest nodded: "They were the champions last year, and they are more mature this year."

Payton also gave an affirmative answer: "Unless Russell can't play, otherwise, this is a massacre!"

"Russell?"

"Yes, Bill Russell, center for the University of San Francisco, a guy destined to be great!"

While a few people were talking, the game started!

On the TV, a tall man dominates the inside, he is the king there, he is so powerful to control the rebound and protect the frame, almost every round, the University of San Francisco can easily get the rebound and start a quick counterattack .

His shot-blocking ability and defense awareness, super-long wingspan for copying the ball and wide-ranging cross-passes make opponents sigh.

Standing in the penalty area, forcing the enemy, the strong pressure makes the opponent near the basket have to make mid-range and long-range shots.

He alone is a line of defense, he is the defensive core on the field, the inside penalty area.

"No wonder later generations always say that Bill Russell supports the entire Celtics' defensive system, and the Celtics' defensive thinking will also push the opponent's offensive direction infinitely to Russell's position." See Seeing the scene in front of him, Peyton sighed in his heart.

In his opinion, Russell at this time is an enhanced version of Kevin Garnett. They are all super giants supporting a system, but Russell's era is extremely beneficial to the inside. seconds, illegal defense is reasonable, and the rules of zone defense have not yet been established. This era is the era of insiders!
Those who get the inside win the world, which is most vividly expressed in Russell.

Suddenly, a guard launched a charge, rushed to the inside, prepared to dunk, trying to boost morale!

Bang!
Covering the sky and the sun, a big hand directly flew it away.

"Oh my god! What a wonderful hat, it's Bill, it's Bill, this is a no-fly zone!" the live broadcast commentator shouted!

Peyton and Forrest in front of the TV also opened their eyes wide. Although they had seen a similar scene a year ago, they still sighed so much.

Bill Russell, the future Lord of the Rings, has already shown his edge.

"It is said that Bill will go back to participate in the Melbourne Olympics this year?"

"I don't know, maybe he will go to play professional directly!"

Even so, Payton knows that according to history, Bill Russell will postpone playing in the NBA for a year for the Melbourne Olympics. Under Russell's leadership, the Federation will win the gold medal.

Russell is known as a real winner in life because he has won championships in the NCAA, Olympics, and NBA.

At the same time, this Olympic Games can be called the most catastrophic Olympic Games in history.

The first is the opening ceremony, the lighting of the torch and the ceremonies of the athletes taking the oath before the game. Among them, the Olympic torch of the main stadium was lit by the Swedish rider Vikner on horseback. The whole form is like an independent Olympic Games.

It looks like two countries are hosting the same Olympic Games, how funny!

Then many countries abstained, the Olympic torch was about to be lit, but the world was sitting on a huge powder keg—the international situation under the influence of the two superpowers, the Federation and the Soviet Union, was turbulent.

In the summer of 1956, the situation in Poland was unstable. At the end of October, the Soviet army sent troops to Hungary, and the Suez Canal War broke out in the Middle East. The Soviet Union stood on the side of Egypt, and the Federation, France, and Britain supported Israel.

Therefore, the 1956 Olympic Games was threatened before the start of the games. Egypt, Israel, Iraq and Lebanon in the war successively gave up participating. Spain under Franco's military regime and the Netherlands, which protested against the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary, also abstained.

The most dramatic is Switzerland, which has been hesitant to protest against sending troops to Hungary. It was not until 12 days before the opening of the Olympic Games that it decided to go to Melbourne to compete.

However, the decision was made too late, and there were difficulties with air tickets, so that he could not arrive before the registration deadline, and finally passively abstained against his will.

For the Chinese people, the 1952 Olympic Games was a good start, but the 1956 Olympic Games was a pity.

Finally, there is the famous Olympic scandal - the bloody battle in the water!
In the water polo final match held on October 1956, 10, the Hungarian men's water polo team and the Soviet Union's men's water polo team competed for the championship. Many players from the two sides fought hard, causing blood to flow from their faces.

At the end of the game, the Hungarian team won the gold medal with a 4-0 victory over the Soviet team. After the game, the media filmed the scene where the Hungarian water player Erwin Zador was bleeding from the corner of his right eye after the game and named it "The Bloody Battle in the Water".

It can be said that the content of this competition is more about fighting skills in the water. It seems that Lao Maozi is not good at water fighting, so unfortunately he lost!
(End of this chapter)