pinnacle swinger

Chapter 27 March Madness
ED-Stefanski's desk is placed with the team's freshly ordered cactus for him. There are a few light yellow stamens in the middle of the flower, exuding a faint fragrance.

"Crack!" He put down the scout report in his hand, rubbed his head, and leaned back on the rocking chair behind him.

The 76ers have had a hard time this season. After the All-Star break, the schedule was difficult and players were troubled by injuries. The team's record plummeted. Now it can only rank tenth in the Eastern Conference, with a winning percentage of less than 4%. Sai is getting farther and farther away.You know, in the first two seasons, the 76ers were still an excellent team in the East, and even fought six games against the Magic, which reached the finals last year.

"It's really hard!" Stefanski took a deep breath of the cigarette, stubbed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, and then exhaled a big mouthful of thick smoke, expressing a sigh of emotion.

Seeing that there is no hope for the playoffs, the team's old coach Wu Shamao is not guaranteed. If he is still in this dead state next season, he will probably be attacked next.

"[-]% winning percentage, poor belly, bad performance, lottery." Stefanski kept flashing thoughts in his mind, rushing to a considerable victory to calm the anger of the fans and the possibility of winning the high draft pick in June Between changing the fate of the team, it is always difficult to make up your mind.

His gaze fell on the report on the prospective draft players collected for him by the 76ers scouts on the table.

His breathing gradually became quicker again, as if seeing some rare treasure, his eyes glowed faintly, "If it's really what Edra said, then it doesn't seem to be worth giving it a go." No!"

Stefanski recalled the glorious days of the current Rockets boss. Since Yao Ming was selected in 02, it has become a team with a huge population and market support.The so-called earning money to earn hand cramps refers to the fact that Alexander, who was hit by the pie, became the envy of most NBA bosses.

If the 76ers can also become like the Rockets, then their position is not as stable as the Pacific Ocean?Stefanski shook his head vigorously, pushing the tempting thought out of his mind.

"First of all, he needs to be an All-Star and Yao's strength!" Stefanski knew very well that the NBA is wrapped in a gorgeous commercial atmosphere, but in essence it is still a competitive league, and fans will always pay attention to it. He is a powerful person, and players with good professional ethics always care about winning the game.

His fingers touched the player report on the table, and the two-inch photo showed the young man's sunny and bright smile.

"Tang Wenlong, the main point guard of Syracuse University, the Big East champion, is interesting, interesting~"

After the end of the league regular season, it is the familiar league championship.

And the time has officially entered March!

In the Big East League Championship, Syracuse University, which is the top four in the regular season of the league, directly enters the quarterfinals. The other twelve teams, from the ninth seed to the No.16 seed, participate in the first round. Fight against the fifth seed to the eighth seed to determine four places.

This tournament is a bit similar to the warm-up trials before the start of March Madness. The championship champions of the 31 leagues can automatically get a place to participate in the NCAA National Championships in March Madness.

Of course, for Syracuse University, which is so strong this season, even if they fail to win the league championship, the official selection committee of the NCAA will definitely select them among the 65 places that will eventually participate in the championship. Now number one on the national charts.

Strange to say, Syracuse University may have really swept the entire Big East this season. In the quarterfinals, the DePaul University Witchers, who came up as dark horses in the first two rounds, were defeated in the opening game. Syracuse University blasted a 17-4 shock wave, which immediately suppressed the momentum of the No. 14 seeded dark horse.

After that, Syracuse University easily won the quarterfinal victory and advanced to the semi-finals of the Big East Conference Championship.

The top four are also old faces in the previous league, such as the Georgetown University Hoyas, the University of Cincinnati Binturongs, and the Marquette University Golden Eagles.

Tang Wenlong is now very familiar with some students from these universities, for example, Jimmy Butler, the charcoal head of Marquette University, and Lance Stephenson of the University of Cincinnati. Tang Wenlong was deeply impressed. Looking at the entire Big East league, I am afraid that these two guys have the fiercest and most exquisite defense.

However, the victory still belonged to Syracuse University. Wesley Johnson seemed to be cheating. He showed his superhuman physical talent on the court. What's more commendable is that he also has good ball control skills. And long-range shooting ability, basically in the NCAA, there is no fourth position that can match him.

In the finals of the Big East Conference Championship, Syracuse University met Georgetown University again.

Counting the warm-up match, this is the fourth time the two teams have played against each other this season. In the NBA, only teams from the same division have such a record of frequent battles.

The old and new grudges were counted together, and the two teams were really jealous.

It's a pity that Tang Wenlong, like Georgetown University's sufferer, turned out again, scoring 23 points and 12 assists, shattering Georgetown University's dream of winning the league championship.

Greg Monroe left the arena depressed, accidentally tripped and almost fell when going out.

He feels that nothing good will happen when he meets Syracuse University. Seeing the NCAA National Championships start, he won't meet them again in a promotion match, right?

Monroe felt a bit pained, and his willingness to participate in the draft was unprecedentedly strong.
At the same time, the external media made a strong publicity on the three main players of Syracuse University. With the help of some people, Tang Wenlong officially surpassed Andy Laustin, ranked behind Wesley Johnson, and became the second place in Syracuse University. No. key person.After defeating Georgetown University, the draft prices of the two reached the top fourteen. Wesley Johnson ranked ninth and Tang Wenlong ranked 9th.

On March 3, the NCAA National Championship officially started.

The opening game is Merwin Slott University vs. Kansas Linda University, which is the qualifier before the traditional 65 teams battle, and the two teams are ranked here not because of how powerful they are. Because the selection committee ranked these two teams as the weakest.

The weakest team must have the weakest awareness, and it is not so easy to be a dark horse.

But the good news is that at least on the day of the much-anticipated opening game, only these two teams played against each other, and the exposure rate was almost [-]%.

Syracuse University is assigned to the Eastern District, and belongs to the No. 1 seed in the entire Eastern District.

After the opening game, on the 19th, 32 teams competed against each other on the basketball court at the same time, and the NCAA tournament in March Madness entered a hot state in an instant.

The next day, Syracuse University, the No. 1 seed, faced Kansas Linda, the winner of the opening game.

75 to 47, the gap between the two teams is really too big. The strong Syracuse University easily defeated the team that had received all-round media attention on the opening day.

At the same time, the remaining [-] teams were ranked according to their seeds, and the high ranks played against the low ranks in a brutal fight.

Under such a competition system, losing a game means that they can only go home to fish, which can be described as crazy to the extreme.

And the dark horse has become the most eye-catching noun in March Madness. Everyone worships civilian heroes, and everyone wants to see the good show of Hangsi's counterattack.

Not to mention, several dark horses are appearing, such as Tang Wenlong's old acquaintance Marquette University, as the No. 6 seed, lost to the No. 11 seed Washington University.

Quincy Pondexter, this little-known kid, used his precise jumper and sharp breakthrough to tear the entire Marquette University's defense line to pieces.At this time, Jimmy Butler, who can only survive on the bench, can only watch the team swallow this fatal defeat with helpless eyes.

He suddenly thought of the yellow-skinned boy at Syracuse University who entangled him every time, "This kid must be making fun of me." Butler felt his teeth itch.

It is reported that after this game, Pondexter's draft market reached the top [-] for the first time, and many NBA teams have a strong interest in him.

Soon, the second round of the competition took place on March 3. 21 of the 32 teams that decided the victory fought on the basketball court at the same time.

This battle frequency is comparable to back-to-back games in the NBA, and the name of madness once again shocked the world.

Especially the Chinese fans who began to pay attention to NCAA games because of Tang Wenlong were even more surprised. Before that, the fans' cognition of March Madness was only on the suffix "March", but they did not realize the key to it. It is in the word crazy.

On the 22nd, Syracuse University played against No. 8 seed Gonzaga University and easily won 87 to 65.

In the first half, Gonzaga was still able to hang tightly behind Syracuse University 28-32, but in the second half, Tang Wenlong suddenly broke out and scored 8 points in a row, leading the team to a 15-2 shock wave, and thus locked The leading position in the game was lost, and the point difference was once pulled to more than 30 points.

Tang Wenlong met the main center of Gonzaga University on the field, Robert Thackeray, a 7-foot-tall bald center. He performed well in this game, scoring 18 points, 9 rebounds and 4 steals. The power of this game turned Syracuse's inside line upside down, and it was the biggest reason why Gonzaga University took the lead in the first half.

"If I had Andy, I wouldn't necessarily lose!" Thackeray said viciously when talking with Tang Wenlong at the end of the game. But he looked unconvinced.

Tang Wenlong was stunned, but he didn't get angry, thinking that this big man was quite funny.

After the game, Tang Wenlong heard the biggest news of today's NCAA!
The University of Kansas, the No. 1 seed in the Central and Western District, and the No. 2 seed in the United States, the imaginary enemy of Syracuse University, lost to the No. 9 seed University of Northern Iowa!
(End of this chapter)