Chapter 63 Strength Ranking

San Diego State University is not a traditional basketball giant. They have missed the championship for several consecutive years. Well-known players in the school's history, such as Xavier Thames, are still players in the 1980s and 1990s.

However, San Diego State University's strength is not bad this year, the team has two NBA-talented players.

Kawhi Leonard, 2.01 meters tall and 102 kilograms, is very similar to Tang Tian. This player who has been playing football before his second year of high school has a pair of big hands that are incomparable to ordinary people, which makes him aggressive on the defensive end Full.

As a second-year player, he averaged 15.7 points and 10.4 rebounds per game this season. For a player in his early 2 meters, his rebounding ability is particularly outstanding.

Simply put, he's a 3-4 swing player with a similar offense to Jimmy Butler, but with a stronger defense.

And unlike Butler's Marquette University, Leonard also has a helper, Jamal Franklin, a small forward of 1.96 meters, with excellent athletic ability and breakthrough ability, averaging 10.2 points and 4.3 rebounds per game this season .

In addition, their center Draymond Wright is also well-known, but unlike Leonard and Franklin, he is not known for his skills, but for his style of play, trash talk and small moves. , is the kind of player that makes opponents extremely disgusted.

Concordia is in the first round, which is an enhanced version of Marquette University.

Most tournament matchups are out, but not all of them.

In theory, 64 to 32, there are only 64 teams in total, but there are a total of 68 teams in the championship. In order to warm up the championship and give more colleges a chance to show, the extra four teams need to be played before the championship starts. , compete for a place, which is the original intention of setting up 68 teams.

The four extra teams are the No. 17 seed in each division. They need to play a single match against the No. 16 seed in the division to decide who will play against the No. 1 seed in the division.

This is the beginning of March Madness.

Eight teams, four games will be played in the same city, this year in New Haven, Connecticut.

Providence College, the No. 17 seed in the Eastern Conference, is one of those eight teams.

In the hearts of Connecticut fans, the University of Connecticut must be the first home team they support, but Providence College, which is also in the Big East, is also the team they support on this day.

Even Kahun even organized members of the University of Concord to watch the game on the spot.

Although Providence College is not in the same division as them, through the games of these teams, and based on the previous match records, it is still possible to spy on the strength of some opponents in other divisions.

The game is to be played tomorrow afternoon. After the extra practice that night, Tang Tian and Walker were holding laptops in the training hall to study the details of playing against San Diego State University.

After the research was over, the two watched NCAA-related news for a while.

The top 68 of the championship is determined and the game is about to start. At this time, the attention of the NCAA in the United States began to rise rapidly.

Sports media giants such as ESPN and TNT have begun to conduct annual predictions and strength analysis; betting websites have also successively opened the odds of each team winning the championship; many NBA players have also begun to predict to win the championship, most of them are From NCAA, although he left his alma mater, his feelings are still there.

The predictions of the media and gambling websites are basically the same, and Duke and North Carolina are both unique in the rankings.

After that, Kansas with the Morris Brothers, Kentucky with many NBA talent-level players although its strength is not as strong as in previous years, and the University of Arizona with super scorer Derek Williams, etc., followed by these two colleges and universities. .

The third pot belongs to the champions of the leagues and some teams with decent strength, such as the University of Concord in this position, they are called very competitive teams in this group, but because of the The super teams of North Carolina, Kansas, and Arizona are grouped together, and the promotion situation is more severe.

However, the predictions of NBA players are more casual than the media, and they support their home teams almost uniformly.

Richard Jefferson: Derek Williams will be the No. 1 pick this year, and the University of Arizona is the unsuspenseful champion this year!

Luol Deng: Duke will definitely kill North Carolina to win the championship this year. Don't ask me why, because there is a blue called North Carolina losing to Duke Blue!

Vince Carter: Duke is overrated this year. North Carolina is the king this year. I love Barnes. North Carolina will win the championship again this year!

John Wall: You all underestimate Kentucky, that Knight Knight is stronger than you think, and Kentucky is the last king.

Ray Allen: I like Walker, I like Lamb, I like Don, I like this Concordia very much, they may not necessarily win the championship, but they are already the strongest team in my mind.

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Walker and Tang Tian watched the news with relish.

For them, it's also a way to unwind before the tournament.

They watched for a while, and their eyes were quickly drawn to a FOX Sports news article titled "The Power Rankings of Major Positions in the NCAA Tournament."

In this news, FOX ran a wave of rankings of player strength at each position on the tournament's 68 teams.

Among the point guards, Kyrie Irving tops the list. Although he has been sidelined for a while due to injury, Irving is 1.91 meters tall, slender, and has unparalleled ball-handling skills. He is also one of the hottest picks this year. .

After Owen, Jimer Fredette of Brigham Young University, Brandon Knight of Kentucky, Alec Burks of the University of Colorado, and Iman Shumpert of Georgia Tech ranked 2 to 5. .

"You're sixth, haha, I remember Shumpert is a shooting guard, right? You're behind him." Tang Tian couldn't help laughing after reading it.

Laughing and laughing, but this is more of a joke, because there was a period of struggle because of the injury, and Walker's ranking here is not so unexpected.

In fact, compared with the beginning of the season, Walker's experience and strength have improved significantly, especially after returning from injury, after adjusting the way of exertion, the hit rate has increased significantly. In terms of hard power, he is at least among the top three point guards. , the overall top fifteen kind.

"You're still laughing at me, look at you." Walker said, pointing to the screen.

Tang Tian is in the power forward position.

The No. 1 position in this position is Derek Williams. As the core of the University of Arizona, he averaged 19.5 points and 8.3 rebounds per game in the regular season. His strong body and excellent scoring methods make him the biggest competitor of Irving.

After Williams, Harris Barnes of North Carolina, Tristan Thompson of the University of Texas, Markieff Morris of Kansas, and Leonard of San Diego State University ranked 2 to 5.

Seeing his ranking, Tang Tian laughed even louder because he was directly outside the 20th place on the list.

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