Basketball Fanatic: Genius Is on the Left

In the United States, the most popular basketball in basketball is not the NBA, but the American College Basketball League, or NCAA for short. Although the NBA has a greater influence and a wider audience in the world, here, the NCAA is the Many old beauties have a good heart.

A survey was done in the United States this year. Assuming that the NCAA finals and the seventh game of the NBA Finals are played at the same time, 87% of the respondents chose to watch the former.

And if you study in the United States, if you want to quickly get closer to your classmates, you must have a good understanding of the topic of NCAA.

Zuo Li is no stranger to the NCAA. On the contrary, Zuo Li was very familiar with him in his last life. After all, he used to be an assistant coach in high school, and the main task of a high school coach is to teach players who can adapt to the NCAA.

Zuo Li was once also very surprised, why the NBA, which is extremely popular in China and has a significantly higher level, is not as popular as the NCAA in the United States, and Zuo Li came here to understand the reason.

It is nothing more than two points, the first is the unique competition system of the NCAA, and the second is, of course, pure love.

Pure love is easy to understand. After all, compared with the NBA, which is full of commercial elements, NCAA players have no salary income. In NCAA, every player will fight for his dreams, for his teammates, and for his school. war.

And the most important thing is of course the unique competition system of the NCAA. Bob specifically found Zuo Li a few days ago, and chatted with Zuo Li a lot about their schedule this season. After all, whether it is the rules or the schedule, NCAA and others alliances are not the same.

The NCAA schedule starts in November every year, usually ends the regular season before March, and then conducts a crazy March, the regular season is similar to high school, home and away double games, single-game elimination after the top eight are determined, until the championship is determined. .

The champions of each first-level league directly enter the top 64, and the remaining leagues are invited to generate and expand, and are invited by the NCAA committee.

Then, the NCAA Tournament officially started.

The cruel competition system of life and death in one battle makes it impossible for both sides to retreat in the confrontation between the two armies. They can either win or go home. It is so exciting, and this is the true meaning of "March Madness".

After a few months of fighting to enter the top 64, and then going home after a game, it is exciting to think about it, and, this is also in line with the American aesthetic, they like this kind of underdog beat the giants, and this kind of thing is in Happened a lot in the NCAA.

This is the biggest reason for the popularity of the NCAA. It's really exciting!

Oh, speaking of leagues, in the NCAA, more than a thousand four-year universities in the United States and Canada are divided into three levels and dozens of leagues.

Among them, the Big Eastern Conference, the Pacific Twelve School League, the Big Ten Conference, the Big Twelve League, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference are the top six divisional leagues in the first division, and their league champions have priority to participate in the cup season. race rights.

Davidson College is located in the Southern Conference of the Midwest Division. There are not many teams in the league that can do well. Compared with the University of Wisconsin, the University of Oregon, and the University of Maryland, which are also in the Midwest Division, the Southern League teams are basically all The third-rate in the NCAA, except to win the league championship, they have no other channel to enter the top 64.

So if Davidson College wants to make it to the NCAA Championship, their goal this season has been determined, that is, to win the Southern Conference championship that has not been won for decades.

This is also the reason why the outside world is not optimistic about Zuo Li joining Davidson. If you want to break through from here, it is more than one grade more difficult than going to a famous school.

And the degree of attention is also different. Playing in a good school will naturally get more attention. After all, during March Madness, 99% of the schools in the Southern League have gone home to prepare for the next season.

Curry played well last season, but he still didn't get much attention. That's why.

But the boat was done, Zuo Li still chose here.

Because he believes that records are broken by others. If he remembers correctly, Curry took such a Davidson into the quarterfinals historically. Although he regretted stopping in the end, this achievement is enough to show his achievements. Strength, otherwise Curry, who has been undervalued, will not be picked up by high picks.

Now, the addition of Zuo Li has made this team even stronger. Zuo Li naturally has reason to believe that he will give everyone a big surprise.

Of course, now is not the time for spoilers.

The time came to November 7th, and Davidson University finally ushered in their first show of the season. The opponent is the famous Stanford University, but in the NCAA, the name corresponds to the fish belly, and there is no future in the team. NBA players.

But this did not affect the influx of dozens of reporters in Davidson's small arena. It was obviously evening, but the lights on the sidelines were brighter than during the day. The long guns and short guns directly stunned the Davidson guys.

"By the way, the NCAA turned out to be so popular, and the Southern League also had so much attendance." Zuo Li, who had just entered the stadium, was a little confused. The number of reporters was a bit exaggerated, and the seats on the sidelines were not only full, but also There is no place to stand, is this the NCAA?

As soon as this remark came out, Curry was speechless. Thinking about when he first came last season, the stadium was just full for every game, and the reporters on the sidelines were not more than two people. Basically, a small book is enough for each person. Now, where do you need any more guns and short guns? No one will interview after the game, it's all routine, let's take a look now...

"Zuo Li, they are all here to see you." Curry patted Zuo Li's shoulder painfully. Fortunately, he and Zuo Li have been teammates for three years, and have long been used to this kind of blow~www.novelmt. com~ otherwise.

Curry turned his head and looked at his teammates who were still looking at Zuo Li in a dazed way. He would be like them, completely dumbfounded.

"After reading it, is it necessary? It's just a Stanford call." Zuo Li scratched his head, not understanding the brain circuits of the reporters.

No matter what, let's play first and then talk!

Zuo Li was a little bit geared up, and he also wanted to know how much better these people in college were than in high school!

But after the game, Zuo Li was disappointed. Stanford was really too weak. The only person in the team who was 2 meters moved was very slow. Zuo Li didn't need to make a new shot that he had just practiced for three months in the whole game. , It is enough to just rush, attack, catch the ball, turn around and dunk the ball into the basket.

The players from Stanford University ran away right after the game. At first, they had the intention to perform well when they saw this battle, but only after the fight did they realize that they were completely abused.

The audience was 90 to 45, twice the score, which is not a glorious thing to say.

Zuo Li played 30 minutes in the first NCAA game, and 15 minutes in each half. Because of the special NCAA rules, the game is divided into two halves, 20 minutes each, and 35 seconds for each offensive round, which greatly reduces the scoring efficiency.

But he still did not stop Zuo Li from scoring 30 points, 15 rebounds and 7 blocks. He also became the first player in Davidson's history to score 30+15 in his first game.

Curry maintained his strength last season, scoring 26 points and 10 assists. The tacit cooperation between the two made the game lose the suspense early.

After the game, in the face of the long guns and short guns on the sidelines, Zuo Li also said a well-known saying in the future: "This game is very easy, thank you for your support, but what are you expecting, don't think I will. lose?"