basketball god eye

Chapter 66 The next round of opponents
Steve LaVine breathed a sigh of relief after eliminating the Pandas and reaching the quarter-finals of the NCAA Championships. Since he took over the coach of Jim Harrick in 96, the Bruins have only entered the quarter-finals once in 97. Four years have passed, and his coaching contract has expired this year.

UCLA made it very clear to me that if I can lead the team to the quarter-finals this year, then the contract is easy to negotiate, and vice versa.Steve LaVine was very hard at the beginning. The main point guard Watson was injured before the season. If it wasn't for Li Lei's sudden appearance, he would have been really cold. Fortunately, he didn't listen to Mike Horton and snatched Li Lei's scholarship to sign Steve Logan. Look at the performance of the two players in this game, and you will know how big the gap is between them.

Steve LaVine was in a good mood, while Bob Hawkins was in the opposite. Cincinnati fell under the iron heel of UCLA under Oscar Robertson's crazy poisonous milk. To be precise, he lost to Li Lei alone. If it weren't for that stupid, famous man who made such clamor before the game, Cincinnati might lose, but it would definitely not be so miserable.

After Bob Hawkins shook hands with Steve LaVine, he left the Vienna Arena without intending to attend the press conference. He knew that his coaching career in Cincinnati was completely over.

Steve Logan was still standing there blankly, and the audience's words entered his ears verbatim, while the reporters completely ignored the loser and basically ran to Li Lei.

"Fuck, fuck." Steve Logan crazily pulled his arms and kept roaring, but the sad thing was that the reporters were not even willing to give him a close-up. After all, there was no difference between No.2 and the top 1 in competitive competitions.

The other seven school teams are Maryland, Arizona Wildcats, Duke Blue Devils, USC, Michigan State, Illinois and the biggest dark horse of the season, the Temple Owls.As the No. 11 seed in the Southern Division, they were eliminated one after another. Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania really felt like they were in the dark. Now, many people in the bookmaker's handicap believe that they have the strength to overthrow the defending champion Michigan State University.

And Florida, which met Michigan State in the NCAA finals last year, was actually overthrown by the Temple University Owls in the Southern Division. Before the championship started, after the results of this division came out, many people thought that Michigan State University and the University of Florida would compete for the final semi-finals in the Southern Division, but no one thought that it would be Temple University that entered the division finals.

There are no underdogs in the NCAA Championships. This sentence is really not just talking. The one-round game requires too much on-the-spot judgment from the coach and pre-game preparation. Among the opponents who have entered the quarterfinals, except for Duke and the Wildcats who can afford to have two lineups that can be rotated, the other six teams only have one.

The final match against the Maryland Terrapins will be held on the 24th, which is one day later. Li Lei is still using all his time to improve his proficiency. The current situation looks very good, but his family knows his own affairs. Starting from the quarterfinals, every opponent is enough to make UCLA shed a layer of skin.

But after entering the quarterfinals, Li Lei could clearly feel that the spirit of the entire team was different. After round after round of fighting, his teammates were also slowly evolving. The ncaa championship is indeed a stage where people can be tempered, but the stage hierarchy is too polarized. The popular teams are directly five-star, or even ten-star.

After all, the head coach of ncaa does not have the bearing and ability of Rehhagel, who can bring eleven not particularly outstanding guys to the stage of the European Cup champion. In addition, the most important point is that the Greek team led by Otto the Great is not really a commoner.

As explained earlier, the ncaa academy system is at the pyramid level. The better your grades, the more good seedlings you attract, and then a cycle like this is formed. As for those bottom-level teams, I don’t know that it will take decades or 100 years for a savior to bring them into the ncaa championship. The qualifying places for the ncaa tournament are comparable to those of the UEFA Champions League. These school teams, like those teams, rely on this name to recruit students. Otherwise, who would come, and the university has never made it to the championship every four years. Do you think there will be a team that wants you?
The media rated UCLA's lineup as 7 points, which is a very moderate score. Compared with Duke's 10 points and the Arizona Wildcats' 9 points, the media is still not so optimistic about UCLA.But it can't change those mainstream sports organizations want to look bad at the Bruins.

Li Lei is very happy to see the bad news from the outside world. The law of death is not only present in the World Cup, it is also true in the NCAA Championships. Those sports organizations define the Bruins as a bunch of flying.

No one knows about Li Lei's bad taste. His performance has been noticed by many people. Although the statistics are not as dazzling as during the regular season, the overall state has not declined at all. Under his leadership, the Bruins have become a force to be reckoned with.

Gary Williams, the head coach of the Terrapins at the University of Maryland, attaches great importance to the Bruins. The opponent has been here for nearly 20 years. It has been many years since he was the coach of the Terrapins in 89. Although he has led the team for a long time, the media and fans do not recognize the strength of this old coach. After leading the team for such a long time, the team has no achievements at all except a few times in the top sixteen. It was only at the level of the top 16 of the championship. Although he was named the No. [-] pick that year, the fans of the Maryland Terrapins did not recognize him.

There is only one player they recognize, and this person died of drug addiction, the future celebrity who beat Jordan up in street literature - Lumbias.No one knows how strong this guy is. After all, he is already GG, so Gary Williams, who is facing UCLA this time and has already completed the quarterfinals, already has greater ambitions, that is, to eliminate the Bruins and enter the semifinals.

(End of this chapter)