The WCBA Finals ended with the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team defending its title

On January 2, the second round of the 2021-2022 WCBA Finals ended, and the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team defeated the Sichuan women's basketball team 87-86. In this way, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team, which has won the first round, won the finals of the three-game two-win system and won the championship for the second consecutive time.

Inner Mongolia women's basketball team celebrates after winning the championship / Courtesy of Xinhua News Agency

The Inner Mongolia women's basketball team and the Sichuan women's basketball team are the two teams that have performed best in the WCBA this season. The Sichuan women's basketball team won 17 rounds of the regular season, and after entering the playoff stage, it eliminated the Dongguan women's basketball team and the Jiangsu women's basketball team successively. In addition to the one game lost to the Sichuan women's basketball team in the regular season stage, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team also maintained a full victory in the rest of the games before the finals.

In the first match between the two sides in the finals, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team took the lead 75-70, and also won the match point in the three-game, two-win finals. In the game on January 2, the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team chased points in the first quarter, still trailing in the half, and in the case of being thrown away by 10 points in the third quarter, it achieved a reversal with its outstanding performance in the fourth quarter and finally successfully defended its title. The Sichuan women's basketball team, which reached the top four of the playoffs last year, has once again achieved a breakthrough in performance through recruitment this season, but it is still one step away from dominating the WCBA.

After this game, the 2021-2022 WCBA season has all come to an end. The Chinese women's national basketball team will soon be concentrated in preparation for the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup qualifier in Belgrade from February 10 to 13.