Chapter 99： Crazy March, the first battle with Gonzaga!

Zuoli's data is phenomenal, and the three statistics are the first in the league in the season. Although there is no player in NCAA history with more points and stronger rebounds than Zuo Li, he is the first player in NCAA history to be able to score in a single season. Players who get 30+17+6 at the same time.

At the same time, Zuo Li scored double-doubles in all 28 games played this season, breaking the national record previously held by Carmelo Anthony when he was a student at Syracuse University. 10 rebounds in 17 games and 20 points + 10 rebounds in 28 games also ranked first in the United States.

Based on this kind of performance, Zuo Li topped the list in the 2008 draft. Although sometimes the NCAA data does not mean that he can adapt to the NBA, such performance and visible talent will definitely make you a candidate in the draft. Fragrant pastry.

ESPN said that if Zuo Li can lead Davidson to go further in March Madness, then he will have the opportunity to complete the harvest of various NCAA awards.

But ESPN still underestimated Zuo Li's ambitions. Originally, Zuo Li didn't have much desire for how far he could go this season. For the first season, take your time, as long as you can break into March Madness, it's enough. It's not impossible to come again next season, after all, except for him and Curry, the ability of other players in his team to play is indeed so lacking.

But it's different now. He will go to the NBA next season, so this season, his goal can only be the championship!

Although many people think that winning the NCAA championship is not necessarily a good thing for entering the NBA. After all, the New York overlord Ewing defeated Olajuwon in the NCAA, but after entering the NBA, he was won by Olajuwon in the finals. It leads to a lifetime of no championships, and the end is embarrassing.

But Zuo Li never believed that. Who can remember that the NCAA champion Joe's team also defeated Ewing's team. How about entering the league? It's not a random killing.

So as long as you have enough strength, metaphysics won't work.

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On the night of the division championship, Zuo Li and Curry appeared in the arena for additional training.

"Zuo Li! We must do something big in March Madness, and we must make it to the top 16!" Stephen Curry clenched his small fist and punched Zuo Li.

Yes, Curry also knows that although he is very reluctant to leave Zuo Li, it has become a fact, and he also knows that Zuo Li's strength is also a waste to stay here, so this season may be the last season for the two of them to fight side by side. .

The NBA is different from before. It is difficult to decide one's own destiny there, so Curry cherishes the days of fighting side by side with Zuo Li at the end. He wants to work with Zuo Li to accomplish an incredible career.

"No, our goal is to be champions! Others don't like us, so we'll show them."

"Champion!" Curry's pride erupted. He had never been so nervous and excited. He wished that March of Madness would come early.

And just as Davidson's two young men enjoyed their peak, the games in other NCAA divisions finally came to an end.

In the Pacific Ten School League, James Harden and DeMar DeRozan each led their colleges to meet in the conference finals. After a Mars-filled battle, DeRozan defeated Harden's Arizona State Sun Devil. .

Poor Harden stopped at the door of the NCAA 64 strong.

And North Carolina, who returned to the era of complete victory after many years, won the division championship with a complete victory record. The core of the team and one of the favorites of this year's No. 1 pick, Tyler Hansbrough, shouted "March Crazy" after winning the championship. A slogan belonging to North Carolina.

Another leader of the team is Zuo Li's old acquaintance Ty Lawson, whose coquettish dancing after the game became the focus of the media.

North Carolina is also worthy of the title of the most famous team in the NCAA. Even the President of the United States sent them a congratulatory message and predicted that North Carolina would win the NCAA championship again.

And Oklahoma City University, led by the Griffin brothers, also broke through from BIG12, and they also secured a seed team seat.

Then there are the championship favorites, the University of Memphis led by Ross, the University of Kansas led by Brandon Rush, Chalmers and other players, and the University of Kansas led by Kevin Love, Westbrook, Baa Mot, Darren Chris's Four Kings also advanced to the top 64 in the next 4 days.

And Stanford University, which owns the Lopez brothers, came out of the Ivy League unsurprisingly. What they did was Harvard, led by the famous Jeremy Lin, Beasley's Kansas State University, and OJ Mayo's University of Southern California. , Gerald Henderson's Duke all passed.

And then the NCAA committee announced those extended seats, and well-known institutions such as Georgetown University, University of Notre Dame, University of Connecticut and so on have received invitation seats.

On March 17th, the NCAA 64 top 64 were officially assembled, which means that the 2007-2008 NCAA March Madness will finally be presented to the world!

The 64 teams will be divided into 32 groups according to their divisions and seeded teams. They will compete against each other in a knockout system. If they win, they will enter the top 32 of the elite. If they lose, they will stop there. The most talked about time period of the NCAA year has finally arrived!

As the No. 10 seed in the division, which is the lowest seeded team, Davidson faced the No. 7 nationally ranked team in the first round. Although he did not play well this time, he still entered 64 through the expansion quota. Strong Gonzaga University.

Gonzaga University is considered a giant team in the NCAA. Although there are no particularly well-known NBA players in the team, they are basically NBA role players, and the most famous should be Turiaf, who is now playing in the Lakers. In the past two years, only one Daye in the team has the strength to enter the NBA.

But the popularity is still much stronger than that of Davidson. Today's Davidson, Zuo Li and Curry have attracted more than 90% of the attention. Even Gonzaga's Daye said in an interview that he did not know what kind of university Davidson College was. , He only knows Zuo Li and Curry, and said that although these two are strong, basketball is not a two-person sport.

Zuo Li can only say to this: "It's normal for him not to know each other. This can only prove that he really can't study. As for his words, I basically agree that basketball is not a two-person sport, but the two of us will definitely win."

Zuo Li really doesn’t know what kind of pride Gonzaga has this year. Although the average strength of the team is not bad, there is not a particularly top-notch person, and Daye is not at the level of a second-round pick. Their reputation in the past, otherwise they would have gone home to make up lessons because of their level of being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

However, it was another live broadcast across the United States.

"Since Gonzaga doesn't know us, we'll let him know today!" On March 22, in the locker room of the game, Zuo Li used Daye's words to mobilize.

"Okay! Tell him what the consequences of Xueba's anger are!"

The atmosphere was very hot, and the effect was perfect. Daye would never have imagined that one of his interviews could actually remove the nervousness of Davidson's first game of March Madness.

Daye made a great contribution.