Match point

Chapter 50 Spring Season
Purcell's magnanimity, Di Giulio's happiness, Mkelcian's loss, Gawain's fighting spirit, and bustling celebrations and cheers surrounded him. The cohesion of brutality and team spirit.

Martin, see it all.

"Moreover……"

Martin raised his voice again, glanced lightly at Gawain and Mkelcian whose eyes collided with sparks, the latter had recovered, and then looked at Thompson again.

"Klay Thompson."

At this time, it was a lot slower, and the players realized that Thompson's name was not in the main lineup that Martin had just announced.

Everyone takes it for granted that Thompson is currently the team's No. [-] singles player. How could he be absent? Even if he didn't hear Thompson's name, he has automatically included Thompson in the main lineup. All attention is on Di Giulio and Gao Wen.

until now.

Martin belatedly announced the sixth name of the main lineup, and everyone realized it.

Then you can see Thompson doing a very exaggerated Hawaiian hula dance celebration. The greasy and awkward dance seems to be able to win the favor of the Golden Raspberry Award, which successfully aroused everyone's laughter.

There was also a smile in Martin's eyes, but this time, he controlled his expression and urged earnestly.

"Thompson, you should know that the six players in the main lineup, nothing is taken for granted. This is all the result of your hard training. Therefore, after becoming the main lineup, you should train harder and take the part of the substitute players. Responsibility, get on the court."

Having said that, Martin's words also gained a little weight.

"Thompson, as the No. [-] singles, is an honor and a responsibility."

This is undoubtedly one of Martin's most worried and most concerned focuses for the new season.

From last year's No. [-] singles to this year's No. [-] singles, can Thompson withstand the test of pressure?
This time, Thompson did not continue to play tricks, straightened his waist and raised his voice, "Yes, coach!"

The loud voice reverberated over the court, and even the expressions of other players became solemn. They could faintly feel the tension of the coming rain, and the tension and excitement of the season's upcoming opening came rushing to their faces. Grabbing his heart tightly, he would be out of breath in an instant.

Martin also felt the tension in the atmosphere, waved his hand again, and said in a tongue-in-cheek tone, "This is not an army, so there is no need to be so serious."

The tense atmosphere collapsed in an instant, and everyone laughed. Grant, who was standing next to him, just shook his head repeatedly with a sad face.

Regardless, the season is about to begin.

NCAA, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, is an association of more than 1000 four-year universities in the United States and Canada.

Every year, major TV stations will broadcast live NCAA games, basketball, rugby, baseball, ice hockey, tennis and other popular sports live broadcast attention, even comparable to professional leagues, especially in May Crazy, when major sports enter the National Championship Competition, attention is even more explosive.

The reason is very simple, not every city has its own professional team, but every state has its own university.

Regardless of whether they like competitive sports or not, every local resident has a sense of belonging to the university in their state. The university team is the mother team that they fully support. It is cultivated from an early age, which is even comparable to a belief; moreover, professional teams may migrate City bases are a business after all, but college teams are not. Once they take root, they will continue here for generations.

To some extent, the loyalty of fans of college teams even surpasses that of professional teams.

It is precisely because of this that in May Crazy, the attention of the NCAA National Championships can even exceed that of some professional league matches.

The NCAA competition is divided into three levels and dozens of leagues. The six first-level leagues are the highest level. The University of California, Los Angeles is one of them and belongs to the Pac-[-] League.

As the name suggests, this league has a total of twelve teams. After entering the spring season of tennis, these teams will start home and away games respectively. The games include duels within the league, as well as duels with other league teams. Ranking within the league.

Generally speaking, the entire season includes 24 to 26 games, all of which are team games, and there is no separate singles game setting.

Finally, at the end of April, according to the rankings, four teams will enter the playoffs and compete for the Pac-[-] season championship.

At the same time, in addition to the league's internal rankings, the NCAA will also list a separate national ranking.

In NCAA games, the strength of teams in the first-level league and the second-level league is far apart; in the same way, in the first-level league, there is also a certain gap in the strength of teams in different regional leagues, so in the regular season, the difference between the number of wins and losses Numbers are not that important, you also need to refer to the strength of your opponent.

In other words, the victory over UCLA cannot be compared with the victory over an unknown university in the second-tier league. Both games are also victories, but when they are included in the ranking data, the score value The proportions are vastly different.

It is precisely because of this that the reference data for the national rankings are very complex and diverse. When you finally look at the rankings, there may be a team that has won the season, but it may only rank fourth in the league; at the same time, the team ranked second may win. The number of games may be less than No.5.

In any case, after the NCAA lists the national rankings, in May, they will select 64 teams based on the rankings to enter the National Championship Game.

Among them, there are four events including men's team competition, women's team competition, men's singles, and women's singles. After two full weeks of competition, four champions were determined respectively. This is also a well-deserved national champion!
Because the schedule is intensive, the intensity is huge, there is no breathing time at all, and it is a severe test of energy and physical strength, so it is called "Crazy May".

Things always have two sides. "May Madness" is enough to make people crazy, but at the same time, it is precisely because of this kind of madness that it has attracted the attention of the whole United States. From fans to the media, the discussion has always been hot. Even the NBA president The finals always avoid the schedule and dare not confront directly.

The winner will be bathed in the attention of the whole United States!Reach the summit overnight!
On January 2014, 22, Wednesday, UCLA was at home and ushered in the first opponent of the spring season, the challenge of UC Irvine. They played lightly and went all out, officially starting the long journey of the new season.

(End of this chapter)