On the evening of January 2, Beijing time, in the second game of the 2021-22 WCBA finals, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team narrowly defeated the Sichuan women's basketball team 87-86, defeating the opponent 2-0 on aggregate to win the championship of the season, successfully completing the defense of the title. Inner Mongolia women's basketball player Yang Liwei won the MVP of the finals.
This season's WCBA Finals remain a best-of-three game-two format. In the first game of the finals, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team has defeated the Sichuan men's basketball team 75-70 to get the match point. With the second win, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team also won the WCBA championship for the second consecutive season. After the game, Yao Ming presented awards to the players on the spot.
Yang Liwei had 12 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in the first finals, and in the second game, she had 30 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, making a great contribution to the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team. After the game, Yang Liwei roared and celebrated, celebrating the hard-won defense with his teammates. It is worth mentioning that Han Xu (33 points) and Li Meng (30 points) of the Sichuan women's basketball team both broke out, but they still failed to avoid Sichuan being swept.
Last season, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team completed a large number of reinforcements from the coaching staff to the player lineup, and obtained Li Yueru, Yang Liwei and other national players, and in the end, they defeated the Xinjiang women's basketball team 2-0 in the finals and won the first WCBA championship in team history.
This season, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team ranked second in the league with 16 wins and 1 loss in the regular season, second only to the Sichuan women's basketball team, which won 17 games. Entering the playoffs, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team finally had a higher skill in the face of the Sichuan women's basketball team, and they finally won two consecutive championships.