The CUBA League, the Chinese Collegiate Basketball League, is currently the highest level basketball league competition at the level of Chinese basketball universities.
As of now, Huaqiao University is still the college team with the most consecutive championships in the CUBA League, winning the CUBA championship a total of nine times, including a dynastic feat of four consecutive championships, and is also the team with the most consecutive championships in CUBA history.
Back in the 17th CUBA League in 2015, Huaqiao University defeated the Civil Aviation University of China in the final to win the championship and be crowned nine champions. However, after this, Huaqiao University's performance in CUBA began to decline gradually, and it is no longer a domestic first-class college team.
Why did huaqiao University, a generation of CUBA overlords, decline in recent years? The reason also needs to start from the rise of Huaqiao University in CUBA and the development of the CUBA league.
As mentioned above, 2015 was the last brilliant moment of Huaqiao University in the CUBA League, and 2016 was an obvious node from prosperity to decline. In the seventeen previous CUBA Leagues, Huaqiao University reached the finals for eleven times and won nine championships, and its dominance was alone in the CUBA League.
However, in this time period, is Huaqiao University really the strongest team in The domestic varsity team?
The answer is not so, it can only be said that Huaqiao University is the hegemon of the CUBA League in this period of time, not the hegemon of Chinese university basketball, and not even necessarily the basketball hegemon of Fujian University.
At this rough time, the CUBA League is not the highest level of university league in China, and there is also the Chinese Collegiate Basketball Super League, referred to as the CUBS League.
Just from the difference in name, everyone knows that in terms of competitive level, CUBS and CUBA are high and who are low. Specifically, what is the difference between the two leagues, which starts from the player's access system. Whether or not to allow professional players registered with the Chinese Basketball Association to play a must-win game is the biggest difference between the CUBA League and the CUBS League.
To put it bluntly, the students who play in the CUBA League have no professional club or sports team background, and can be said to be a high-level basketball enthusiast among college students. As for the CUBS League, at that time, the positioning was to override the CUBA League, shouldering the task of cultivating players for the Chinese team of the World University Games and cultivating talents for professional league teams, allowing professional basketball players who were studying at universities with legal registration procedures to participate. It can be said that the average talent and professionalism of CUBS league players is much higher than that of the CUBA league that exists in parallel.
Huaqiao University is the former hegemon of CUBA, so what are the strong universities of the CUBS League?
The most representative university is Guangdong University of Technology with Yi Jianlian, Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu, Zhou Peng, Ren Junfei, Ren Junwei and Shi Hongfei as alumni. In the eleven cups held in the CUPS League, Guanggong won 3 championships and 2 runners-up, and was the best team with the best results.
Why the Canton Trade Union has become the best performing team in the history of the CUBS League, it is necessary to mention the Guangdong Hongyuan Club, whose youth training strength ranks first in the domestic clubs. As mentioned in the previous section, the CUBS League allows college students registered with the Basketball Association to participate in the competition and undertake the task of cultivating talents for professional league teams, while the Guangdong Hongyuan Youth Team has a relationship of cooperation and talent transportation with Guangdong University of Technology.
The most prosperous Guangdong University of Technology, what level of ace players are sent to play the CUBS League? It is the Ren Junfei & Ren Junwei brothers, these two players put in the CUBS League, it is completely a bug-level college player who kills all four parties. Recall that in the 2008 CUBS League Finals, Ren Junfei casually scored 41 points, helping the team easily beat Xiamen University to win the championship, and personally won the FMVP.
By the way, as we all know, Xiamen University is certainly not as brilliant as Huaqiao University in the CUBA League, but Xiamen University has won the national runner-up in the CUBS League. If it is the runner-up lineup of the CUBS League against the CUBA Dynasty champion lineup of Huaqiao University, Xiamen University may not actually lose.
In addition to Guangdong University of Technology, the strongest universities in the history of CUBS include Northeast Normal University and Northeastern University. The reasons why these two universities can become powerhouses are similar to those of Guanggong, and they are backed by the Liaoning Youth Team. Back in the 2006 CUBS League, Northeastern University defeated Guangdong University of Technology to win the championship, and their core at that time was the Beijing men's basketball team famous Su Jizhe from the Liaoning Youth Team.
Through the above part, I believe that everyone already knows very clearly that the quality of the student source, especially the level of ace players, weighs heavily on the university team.
When the talent of the players in your team is to crush the opponent, the team's winning percentage is certainly considerable. In fact, basketball players who were really talented at that time rarely took the college league route, but played CBA games early through the club's youth team promotion.
It can be said that in the Chinese basketball environment at that time, most of the young and highly talented basketball players took the route of sports school, to the club youth team, and to the club's first team, and would not consider the CUBA league at all.
Within the scope of the CUBA League, the quality of domestic enrollment of the varsity teams of major universities should be relatively average, but Huaqiao University has another natural advantage. According to the rules of the CUBA League at that time, in the case of no professional basketball players registered with the Chinese Basketball Association, any university student of the school could represent the university in the CUBA League, including foreign students. Compared with other colleges and universities active in the CUBA League, the Huaqiao University basketball team has a huge advantage in overseas enrollment.
When it comes to the glorious history of Huaqiao University in CUBA, the four big Kongs of the Huaqiao University men's basketball team (Gu Jiani, Chen Liwei, Zhang Jiabin, and Chen Rongren) that were famous in the original arena must not be skipped.
Among the four legendary players in the history of the Huaqiao University men's basketball team, Gu Jiani and Chen Liwei are both Malaysian players. In addition, Huaqiao University also had Peng Huicong, who was also from Malaysia, in the lineup at that time, and the three of them were collectively known as the "Nanyang Three Youngsters" of the Huaqiao University men's basketball team.
The strength of Gu Ghani and Chen Liwei must not be underestimated. After graduating and returning to Malaysia, the two players served as the twin star core of the Malaysian men's basketball team, leading the team to the final round of the 2011 Men's Basketball Asian Championship, and finally achieved the 11th place result, which is the best record of the Malaysian men's basketball team since it began to participate in the Asian Championship.
At the 2011 Asian Championships, Gu Ghani, a point guard, averaged 10.3 points, 4.9 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game, while Chen Liwei, a center, averaged 9.6 points, 9.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.
It can be said that as basketball players representing the highest talent of Malaysian basketball, if they are Chinese college players, Gu Jiani and Chen Liwei must have the strength and opportunity to play a rotation in the CBA, but it is impossible for a CBA team to leave the foreign aid quota for these two Malaysians.
In the six years of undergraduate and graduate school, the two teamed up to bring five championships to Huaqiao University, laying the foundation for the supremacy of Huaqiao University CUBA in one fell swoop. To put it bluntly, when the CUBA University team generally did not have cBA talented players as the core, Huaqiao University had "foreign aid" level students to carry the flag.
While bringing honor to Huaqiao University, the invincible Overseas Chinese Men's Basketball Team with Gu Jiani & Chen Liwei as the core also made a name for Huaqiao University in the domestic enrollment of CUBA, and the local students recruited by CUBA began to get better and better. In addition to the team's outstanding talent, Huaqiao University's advanced training mode and dedication to the CUBA League are also difficult to compare with the CUBA League teams in the same period, and it is not surprising that it can achieve nine crowns in CUBA.
So why has Huaqiao University gone down in the CUBA League in recent years?
After laying out a bunch of necessary words, the biggest reason for the fact that the positioning of the CUBA League has changed, and the effect of the quality of academic qualifications and the school's fame affecting the quality of enrollment is becoming more and more obvious.
In 2015, Huaqiao University won the ninth CUBA championship in team history. Subsequently, the CUBA League and the CUBS League were officially merged, and the CUBS League went into history, and after the merger, it continued to be called the CUBA League. The merger of CUBA League and CUBS League is a leap forward in the development of sports and education in the field of basketball, and it is also an important step to improve the quality of CUBA League, and the positioning of CUBA League in China in the future is to become the NCAA League in the United States and become the chief talent training base of basketball.
After the merger of the CUBA League and the CUBS League, the Beijing trio led by Peking University, Tsinghua University and Beijing Normal University began to exert their strength. Not counting the season that is still in progress, since the two major leagues merged in 2016, the two teams that appeared in the final are the top three teams mentioned above. In the five years after the overseas Chinese won the ninth crown, Tsinghua won the next crown, then Peking University completed the Three Consecutive Dynasties, then Tsinghua won another crown, and Beijing Normal University won Sanya.
Entering the new era of CUBA, the gold content of academic qualifications is too advantageous in recruiting high-quality basketball students, how fragrant the graduation certificates and degree certificates of Tsinghua and Peking University are, this does not need to be described too much by the author, this is the biggest advantage of their enrollment, Qunlong is willing to gather in such colleges and universities to compete in the CUBA arena, even if it cannot enter the professional arena, a better education can help more in the rest of life. Of course, relatively speaking, when Tsinghua Peking University recruits basketball players to enter the school, their requirements in the cultural class will be higher than that of other CUBA colleges and universities.
The quality of the student source can not keep up, the team's talent can keep up, Huaqiao University in the CUBA arena and basketball training accumulated experience is very rich, but it is always difficult to make up for the disadvantage of the student source, the overall competitiveness is naturally impossible to maintain the previous hegemony. In fact, this is not the dilemma faced by Huaqiao University, including the above-mentioned Guangdong University of Technology, Northeast Normal University, Northeastern University and other CUPS top three in the new era of CUBA is also struggling.
If there is no accident, the future CUBA League will enter the era ruled by Tsinghua and Peking University, and these two famous schools will also become a new star-making factory in the Chinese basketball world. In fact, in the CUBA League, double non-colleges and universities have been difficult to play, and most of the pickers can only pick the remaining student players of the top famous schools, and occasionally may recruit some high-quality players who are homesick like Liuchuan Feng and do not want to go too far away from home to study and play.
At the end of the article, this year's China University of Mining and Technology men's basketball team may be the most regrettable dark horse team in cuba history. Because of the non-war crimes of the strange competition system, they were defeated by Peking University in the eight-in-four knockout round, and the reaction and controversy caused by the incident in the basketball topic area have not stopped.