Have you ever seen a basketball game played on an aircraft carrier?
An NBA basketball tournament was held on November 11, 2011 aboard the USS Carl Vinson, against the University of North Carolina and Michigan State.
The game was also commemorated on Veterans Day in the United States, and was deliberately moved to the aircraft carrier CARVinson, and then US President Barack Obama also came to watch the game. Since the whole game is played on the aircraft carrier, it is naturally full of elements of the army. Both teams wore special camouflage jerseys with the names of the players not traditionally marked on the back, but with the words USA. After the game, they also gave the jerseys to the military personnel present. Members of the North Carolina coaching staff also wore khaki pants like soldiers, and the legs of the pants were tucked into military boots like soldiers.
USS Carl Vinson
So, what exactly is ncaa? To be able to hold a game on an aircraft carrier, you must know that even the NBA has never had such treatment, in fact, as the second largest basketball game in the United States after the NBA. NCAA has always been watched by fans all over the world, not only for the NBA to continue to send talent, but also to cultivate many superstars, can be described as the cradle of the birth of NBA stars. Although the level of basketball technology alone, the NBA is definitely far superior to the NCAA composed of college students, but the degree of excitement and explosiveness of the NCAA is not much, or even more than enough, all of which must start from the NCAA format. As we all know, every March there is an event that attracts the attention of basketball fans around the world, and even the NBA has to give way to it, which is the crazy March of the NCAA.
Crazy March was founded in 1939 and has a history of 83 years. Nncaa is divided into three levels, and March Madness is the first level of NCAA. The league tournament uses a single-game knockout system, which earns the title of Crazy March because it is usually held in March every year. There are a total of 32 leagues in the first division of the NCAA, and the current rule is that 68 teams enter the mad March. 31 of the 32 leagues play league tournaments after the regular tournament, and the champion of the bidding tournament qualifies for March Madness.
Crazy March
The only one that doesn't have a tournament is the Ivy League, where the tournament's regular tournament winner automatically goes into March Madness, and after identifying 32 participating teams, the other 36 will be selected by the NCAA Non-Selection Committee, which is called wild card teams. The selection committee will determine 36 wild card teams through screening and voting based on factors such as team record data, league strength and difficulty of the schedule. This selection session is all over the United States, will be broadcast live on television, known as the Sunday selection, after the release of 68 teams, sorted according to the strength and other factors, this is the crazy March matchup table.
The team will be divided into 4 divisions, namely the Eastern Division, the Midwest Division, the Southern Division and the Western Division. March Madness begins with the first four games, with the eight teams participating in the first four games consisting of the four lowest-ranked teams in the 32 league championships and the four pairs with the lowest ranking wild card teams, and these 8 teams fight in groups, and the four teams that win in a single game make up the round of 64 for the other 60 teams. After the first four games are completed, the round of 64 is completed, and the first seed in the division is against the 16th seed, the second seed in the division is the 15th seed, the third seed is against the 14th seed, and so on. The Round of 64, the Round of 32, the Sweet Round of 16, the Elite Quarterfinals, the Final Four, the Final Four consist of two stages.
The tournament begins with the champions of the four divisions divided into two groups to determine the team that advances to the finals, that is, the national semi-finals, and then the national championships, which determine the annual overall champion. In addition to the difference in the format, compared to the NBA, there are also differences in the rules, ncaa is ten seconds through half, while the NBA is eight seconds past half, ncaa uses a 30 second offensive time limit, and the NBA is 24 seconds. NCAA's game is the first and second halves, which last 20 minutes, while the NBA is a four-quarter game with 12 minutes each. The ncaa is also different from the NBA in terms of goal suspension. The NBA stops as long as it scores, re-serves and then goes to the table, and NCAA doesn't stop scoring in the second half or in the last two minutes of overtime.
Brunson
As a college basketball tournament, the NCAA still has amazing gold-sucking ability. In 2018, for example, March Madness usually lasts for 20 days, and March Madness in 2018 is 21 days, but in less than a month, the event has more than a billion dollars. The main beneficiary segment of March Madness is television broadcasting, and after renewing its eight-year, $8.8 billion contract with CBS and Turner, Mad March's TV contracts totaled $19.6 billion from 2011 to 2032, averaging $930 million per year. In addition to tv broadcast fees, March Madness also has sponsorship and advertising fees, and the 30-second ad in March Madness is priced at $1.5 million. If a business wants to use The Mad March's official logo to become an official partner, the sponsorship is $10 million, and if you want to add the word Crazy March Champion to the promotion, the sponsorship is between $30 million and $35 million.
The tournament makes money, the team naturally has a profit, and the team that enters the crazy March every day can get at least $1.67 million in prize money, regardless of whether they win the tournament or not. Teams that reach the round of 16 will receive $5 million, and if they break into the final four, the prize money is $8.3 million.
NCAA Trophy
Of course, NCAA's Crazy March is a basketball feast that belongs to the American national carnival, from the president to the ordinary fans are crazy in this basketball storm, not only watching the game, judging the game, participating in the crazy March betting with great enthusiasm, starting from the latest market prediction, until the final four. It is also because of the uncertainty of the single elimination of the ncaa game that the excitement and excitement of the game have doubled, and the dark horse on the following gram has been killed for a long time. So let's revisit the 2018 NBA finals, those blood-curdling images.
The 2018 NBA Finals kick off on April 3, and the championship will be won from Villanova and Michigan. Villanova University men's basketball team first competed in the NCAA tournament in 1920 and is now part of the Great East League and is also a member of the five major schools of the Very Sports League. Villanova University is one of the traditional strongest teams in the NCAA, reaching the final four six times, winning championships three times, and producing more than 40 NBA players. Among the more well-known are Paul Alikin, known as the "father of modern basketball jump shots", Heat guard Lowry, and Josh Hart.
Villanova University in 2018 has a terrible offensive firepower as the nation's number one offensive team, and in the final four, they broke the record for the number of three-point shots in a single game for the final four teams in 21 minutes. The starting 5, including even the two interior linemen, all have a certain level of outside shooting, and the 6th man also has a high shooting rate of 40%. When other teams face Villanova, they should pay attention not to a tactical strength point, but to avoid Villanova's multi-point blossom and be carried away by a wave. If Villanova is the sharpest cat, then Michigan is undoubtedly the strongest shield.
Bridges
Michigan, led by Wagner, showed a super defensive position at the beginning, not giving Villanova a chance to shoot three-pointers. Tough outside defense left Villanova with a back-to-back three-point miss, and Brunson hit two consecutive shots to stabilize the situation. Wagner scored four straight points and started four-to-four. Wagner hit a three-pointer and then completed a layup to give Michigan an 11-six lead. Villanova was completely in attacking form in the first eight minutes of the first half. After a series of mistakes, the regular rotation of Villano was replaced by the 6th man Di Vincenzo, whose appearance completely changed the trend of the game, and it can be said that Di Vincenzo single-handedly supported Villanova's offensive firepower. In the first half, at 12 minutes and 44 seconds, DiVincienzo hit a three-pointer and then hit a layup and made an extra penalty. Villanova clenched the score under his leadership. While Wagner and Bull helped Michigan extend their advantage slightly to take a 21-14 lead, Di Vincenzo scored a jumper and three-pointer, Villanova finished 23-21, and one minute and 58 seconds before halftime, Spielman received an assist from Di Vincenzo to complete the dunk, and Villanova led to six points 34-28. Brunson grabbed a three-point shot 44 seconds before halftime, and Villanova scored a 23-7 offensive surge 37-28 michigan to enter the second half with a nine-point advantage.
At the beginning of the second half, Wagnerby scored a layup and Bridges broke through to score without giving in. Pascal found the feel and came back with five straight points, Villalova led by as many as 14 points 44-30, Simpson and Brunson were on the line, Bridges hit a three-pointer, Villanova led 18 points 51-3, Ragman returned the three-pointer, Simpson hit two free throws, and Michigan went on a chase to 40-53. But Brunson suffered a foul crisis, has been back to four fouls, and it was Di Vincenzo who stepped up to help Villanova stabilize the situation, and he kept breaking through the three-point basket to soar, and Villanova led 62-4 to 18 points. The next game seemed to enter garbage time, due to Di Vincenzo's brilliant performance, Villanova firmly controlled the game situation did not give Michigan the slightest chance, and finally Villanova beat Michigan to win the 2018 ncaa championship, which was also the team's second championship in nearly three years, the third time in team history, Di Vincenzo scored 31 points in the game, shooting 10 of 15 indisputably mop. He is also the third player in the Semifinals to score 30 points on more than 66 percent shooting after Bill Walton and Skyhook Abdul-Jabbar. And he also has Bridges, who is all-around offensive and defensive, and Jaylen Bronson, the best player in the United States, who are not players who love to be in the limelight. Like Bronson said, if there's a teammate who feels hot, I just feed him the ball.
Di Vincenzo
Now, four years later, the main members of this championship team have all the NBA places. Bronson won a big contract in New York. Bridgeson became the Suns' defensive gate, and that year's Mop DiVinchenzo already had the NBA championship ring and will advance to the next championship in the Warriors. Maybe that's the charm of growing up, from the ncaa to the basketball dream of the NBA.