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Chapter 64 Ten Schools League Quarterfinals
After several months of competition, the NCAA regular season has finally come to an end, and the rankings of each league have also been settled.Compared with the NBA's regular season of up to 82 games per season, NCAA players are much more relaxed. Although their season length is not as long as that of NBA players, they have to play far fewer games than each other. You must know a lot of NBA players. Players also take part in preseason, which means they play around 90 games a season.If the team enters the playoffs, in the playoffs with seven games and four wins, even if each round is swept, they will have to play 16 games, which is much harder than NCAA players.

After the regular season is over, each alliance will only be ranked according to the record in the alliance.Games like UCLA’s losses to Iowa State University and University of Memphis did not affect their rankings. Those games against teams from other leagues were mainly to sharpen themselves or increase their popularity. However, in the NCAA official selection The performance of the team in these games can come in handy when it comes to the non-conference championship team in the tournament.

最终太平洋十校联盟的排名为：1.UCLA；2.斯坦福大学；3.华盛顿州大；4.南加州大学；5.亚利桑那州大；6.俄勒冈大学；7.亚利桑那大学；8.华盛顿大学；9.加州大学伯克利分校；10.俄勒冈州大。除了排在最后两位的加州大学伯克利分校和俄勒冈州大直接被淘汰以外，剩下八所学校将按照首尾对战的方式决出联盟冠军。上半区的两场比赛是UCLAVS华盛顿大学，南加州大学VS亚利桑那州大；下半区的比赛则是斯坦福大学VS亚利桑那大学，华盛顿州大VS俄勒冈大学。

For UCLA, the University of Washington is an unlikely opponent.The only threatening player in their team is Joan Brockman, who is already a junior. In fact, this team was quite strong in the 2005-06 season. Brandon Roy, the top player in the team, had already made his mark in the NBA. Became the boss of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Brockman also joined the University of Washington Huskies that season.But time has passed, and the strength of this team has declined rapidly. If there are still two teams at the bottom of the league, they may not even have the chance to participate in the championship.

Facing such a team, Holland naturally used the rotation extensively. It is one aspect to let the substitutes show their faces, but his ultimate goal is to give the main players more rest time and reserve physical strength for the next game.Although there are not many games and the schedule is not so intensive, after a whole season, the players will feel exhausted both physically and mentally. It is impossible to cope with the championship in this state, and Holland can only use the games against weak teams. Let them rest well.Fortunately, the substitutes were also very competitive. Under the leadership of Collison and Enrique, they easily defeated the University of Washington 82 to 69 and became the first team to advance to the semi-finals.

Several other games followed, Washington State University and University of Southern California both defeated their opponents respectively. The only overturn in the top four was Stanford, which unexpectedly lost to the University of Arizona.However, experts and fans who have watched the entire game believe that Stanford did not lose unjustly. Kevin O'Neal is very smart. The "hard and hard" guy completely gave up on offense, just to mess with Lopez in the paint until he couldn't catch the ball.On the outside, Bayless and Budinger took the opportunity to show their strength, and the consecutive shots made the University of Arizona overtake the score at the end of the half, and finally Stanford failed to reverse.

In addition to Stanford's upset loss, a very talented player appeared in the first round, James Harden from Arizona State University.Although the team eventually lost 69 to 73 to the University of Southern California led by Mayo, Harden's performance in the game was no less than that of Mayo, who had long been famous, with 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in the game. On par with Mayo's 23 points and 10 rebounds.And more importantly, Harden is also a freshman who enrolled in 2007. Many media have expressed that the strength of this year's freshmen is quite good. Besides Mayo, Ye Feng and Love, there are other players who gradually surfaced. The talented teenagers are enough to prove the attraction of the Pacific Ten Schools Alliance to talented high school students.

Due to the NCAA's March Madness, the game moved fairly quickly.After the eight-to-four match, the four advanced teams only had a day off before facing their second opponent again.This time it is UCL VS University of Southern California, University of Arizona VS Washington State University.During the regular season, the University of Southern California suffered from UCLA twice in a row. How could the pride of Mayo have no idea at all?Although he admires Ye Feng's skills, it doesn't mean he wants to catch him without a fight.But he didn't expect that Ye Feng would continue to grow taller in his freshman season, from 195cm when he entered school to 201cm. The height difference between the two was not far apart, but now Ye Feng can almost completely suppress him in terms of height and physical fitness alone. Live Mayo.

The University of Southern California is similar to many upper-middle-level teams in the NCAA. It is basically a one-man team of a certain talent. As long as it can beat that person, it can beat the entire team.However, it is not without exception. In 2013, the small forward Luke Hancock of the University of Louisville stood up from the bench to become the MOP (Most Outstanding Player) of the NCAA Final Four, and was kindly used by the fans. The name of the movie serves as his nickname - Hancock, the Superman of All People.But players like Hancock are just an exception. More schools are supported by only one or two outstanding players, and Southern California is no exception. Ye Feng suppressed Mayo, and UCLA's victory is a matter of course.

When the final whistle sounded, Mayo stood up from the bench and looked at the blood-red numbers on the scoreboard. He was slightly disappointed, but he was not depressed, because according to the performance of the University of Southern California this season, they are still very good. Potential to be selected by the NCAA for the Tournament as one of the Top 64.He walked up to Ye Feng and said solemnly: "Ye, you are really strong. Even if you lose to you three times in a row, I still hope that you can become the champion of this league. However, USC is still very likely to win a championship. If we can still meet at that time, let's have a showdown, I hope you will not be eliminated too early!"

Ye Feng felt that Mayo was very interesting, if he was arrogant, but he was able to admit his shortcomings, if he was humble, the last sentence sounded very strange.He smiled and said: "The last sentence is still for you, but I accept your challenge on behalf of our UCLA, if we can really meet in the championship, but that time may be your fourth failure " Mayo rolled his eyes, only leaving Ye Feng with an unruly back.

Completely different from UCLA's crushing victory, the game between Arizona University and Washington State University fell into a tug of war.Judging from the lineup, both sides have similar centers of gravity. The University of Arizona is the troika of Bayless, Budinger and Hill, and Washington State University is similar. Except for Australian center Aaron Baynes, their offensive focus Also Kyle Weaver and Derek Rowe.Interestingly, Luo is also another player related to China in the Pacific Ten Schools League besides Ye Feng.However, unlike Ye Feng who is purely Chinese, Luo is an ABC born in Honolulu, Hawaii, that is, Chinese American, but he may have become the most successful basketball player in Hawaii history.

In this semifinal, Baynes and Hill formed a mutual explosion, but because Baynes' height is too much, Washington State University has a huge advantage in rebounding.However, Weaver and Luo failed to block Bayless and Budinger from the outside, especially Budinger. But Washington State small forward Davin Hamelin couldn't do anything about Budinger.

In this campaign, the scores of the two sides have been biting tightly, and the audience actually led each other 23 times, which is a rare spectacle in the NCAA.With Bayless in trouble, Budinger stood up and took over the team's guns to counter Washington State's huge rebounding advantage and even dragged the game into overtime.Indeed, on the basketball court, rebounds are the lifeline of a team, and the shooting percentage of inside shots is always higher than that of outside shots. Budinger also worked hard in this game, using his outside shots to forcefully serve the team. continue life.

But the result of the game may be doomed in the dark, because Budinger's last rebound shot behind the rebound is completely unrepeatable, and when Budinger shot, the final whistle has already sounded, which is completely unreal. A lore for the retreat.In the end, the University of Arizona once again completed the feat of the upper and lower, defeated the third-ranked Washington State University in the league, and successfully joined UCLA in the final.This is not uncommon in the history of the NCAA, but the Pacific Ten Schools League is the first-level league of the NCAA, and such a thing happened is comparable to the Rockets winning the championship as the sixth in the Western Conference.

UCLA has a psychological advantage over the University of Arizona, but others don't see it that way. Maybe they prefer to see this dark horse fall to the bottom and become the champion of the Pac-[-] Conference.But will UCLA let that happen?

　The author said that he did not find out whether the PAC-10 needs to have a championship game. After all, they only have ten teams, but for the sake of the plot, I still plan to let them compete for the league championship. If anyone knows, please let me know in the comment area, thank you !

　　
　
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