Basketball Myth: Super Guard

Chapter 466 March Madness
After the games of the NCAA leagues are over, the NCAA selection committee will start. This selection committee consists of 10 members, each of whom is the sports director of the NCAA first-level league school or the chairman of the league committee.

In addition to being divided into major leagues, ncaa is also divided into four major regions, namely the Eastern District, the Central and Western District, the Southern District, and the Western District. Syracuse University belongs to the Central and Western Division.

In principle, each district has at least two committee members, and the last ten committee members each nominate some teams as selection teams.

The ncaa championship is also called "Crazy March". Throughout March, the championship teams from various leagues and invited teams occupy fierce competitions. ncaa championship.

The role of the selection committee is to select another 31 teams by voting after the birth of 37 league championship teams that automatically qualify for the championship. They will be eligible for invitations (ncaa has a total of 32 leagues. But the GreatWestConference, that is, the "Great Western Conference", this is an exception, and the league champion does not automatically advance to the tournament).

Ten committee members each nominated 37 teams, and finally through cross-comparison and voting, 37 teams were finally selected, including 31 league championship teams, a total of 68 teams entered the championship.

But after that, they will also sort the 68 teams, with the four divisions of the East, Midwest, South, and West as units, with 17 teams in each division, that is, seeds 1 to 17.

But not all teams participated in the first round of the championship, but the No. 16 seed vs. No. 17 seed in each division.

In other words, four teams will be eliminated in this round, and 64 teams will be left in the end (this is the origin of the top 64 mentioned above, the birth of the top 64 is the beginning of the championship).

After the first round, the "March Madness" officially kicked off. Taking each division as a unit, such as the Central and Western District where Syracuse University is located, a cross-elimination system was adopted, with the No. 1 seed vs. the No. 16 seed, and the No. 2 seed vs. No. 15 seed. 3rd seed vs 14th seed and so on
After this round, half of the teams will be eliminated, which is very cruel, leaving 32 teams in the end.

These 32 teams also adopt the cross-elimination system to continue to the next round of competition. In the end, only 4 teams are left in each division, and a total of 16 teams remain.

Those who can enter the top 16 can be said to be strong teams. There is another name for them, called "Sweet Top [-]".

After that, there will be a 16-to-8 game, which will become more and more cruel. The teams playing at this time are all strong teams, and the games are also extremely fierce and exciting. Every game is crowded.

In the end, the quarterfinals were born, also known as the "elite quarterfinals".

Next is the 8-to-4 game, and finally each division will determine a championship team. They will be called the "Final Four" and will enter the NCAA Final Four.

After the ncaa championship entered the semi-finals, it was another climax. The brand value of the ncaa semi-finals exceeded [-] million US dollars, and was selected by "Forbes" magazine as one of the top ten most valuable sports event brands in the world. None of them can make it into the top ten, which shows how "crazy" the ncaa semi-finals are.

Of course, there is no doubt that it is very difficult to enter the semi-finals, and after entering the semi-finals, you will fight against each other, and finally decide the ncaa champion!

After the 68 teams were selected, the seed rankings for each district were also released soon. Syracuse University was named the No. 5 seed in the Central and Western District.

Because the Big East has many teams and strong strength, in addition to Syracuse University advancing to the tournament as the champion, the University of Connecticut, Marquette University, and Villanova University also received invitation qualifications, but they and Syracuse University Although both belong to the Big East, they are divided into different districts after entering the championship. Marquette University and Connecticut University are in the West Division, and Villanova University is in the East Division. Unless they each win the division championship, they will not compete with Syracuse again. University fights.

The first-round game is the 16th seed vs. the 17th seed, which has nothing to do with Syracuse University.

After this round of competition, the final 16 teams in the Midwest were officially released. From the No. 1 seed to the No. 16 seed, they were Michigan State University, University of Kansas, Wake Forest University, Southern California State University, Syracuse University, Siena University, University of Utah, West Virginia University, Boston College, Ohio State University, University of Dayton, University of Arizona, Cleveland State University, North Dakota State University, Robert Morris University, Morehead 2 State University.

According to the cross-elimination rules, Syracuse University will face the 16th seed University of Arizona in the 8-to-12 game.

On this day, the Orangemen of Syracuse University came to the gymnasium of one of the universities in Dallas to welcome the game against the University of Arizona.

According to the ncaa championship rules, the championship games will be held in "neutral cities", which means that they cannot be held in the cities where the two teams are located to show fairness.

So in the end Dallas was chosen.

"There are so many people."

"Nonsense, this is the ncaa tournament, 'March Madness' you think it's a joke?"

Some fans entered the arena early, but even if they were more than half an hour earlier, the arena was already crowded with thousands of people.

In the auditorium, there were some fans holding the slogans "Come on Syracuse University" or "Syracuse University must win", obviously they are fans of Syracuse University.

Of course there are University of Arizona fans.

Because in the neutral city, there are hundreds of kilometers away from the cities of the two teams, but there are still many fans who drive here to cheer for the teams they support.

Papani and Mike came too.

As Syracuse University won the Big East Championship and advanced to the championship, FX Sports paid more and more attention to Syracuse University, and specially sent Papani and Mike to follow up and report. Anyway, the championship will only take a month at most. The finals didn't take a month, and it didn't take much time.

It's not the first time for Papani and Mike to come to the NCAA Championships. It's not surprising that the bustling arena has a noisy atmosphere, but they just waited quietly.

Beside them are some other media reporters, including reporters from Arizona and local reporters from Dallas.

"coming."

I don't know who yelled, and the whole arena suddenly became more noisy. Papani and Mike followed the sound and saw a group of players from the Syracuse University Orange team walking together.

The fans in the auditorium suddenly became excited, there were cheers and boos, and there was a lot of noise, the sound was loud, as if the stadium dome was about to be blown off.

(End of this chapter)