The school team reached the top 16, which attracted strong attention from the school leaders.

As Richard had guessed before, the school leaders were actually really using Richard as a transition, and they had been contacting those well-known coaches before, ready to replace Richard at any time and get the team back on track!

But in the current situation, there is no need for this at all, and these school leaders are not stupid, they know very well that if they are any coach, it is unlikely that they will bring the poor and white lineup to the top 16!

Richard's coaching contract is only $100,000 a year, and it will expire at the end of the season.

Gooden, the school's vice principal in charge of physical education, found Richard for the first time......

The meaning is very clear, that is, to give Richard a four-year contract with an annual salary of 800,000 yuan!

With Richard's resume, such a contract is actually quite lucrative, but Richard politely rejected the contract!

The NBA is Richard's goal, and he can't be tied to a four-year contract!

Of course, if Richard doesn't find a satisfying position in the NBA after this season, he may sign a one-year contract extension with Purdue.

Gooden must have been extremely disappointed, but he couldn't force Richard to sign for this kind of thing, so he could only let Richard think about it again......

……

After breaking into the top 16 of Sweetness, the next opponent is really not strong, they narrowly beat their opponents in the first two rounds, and they advanced to the top 16 with good luck!

Sometimes, luck does matter in the NCAA!

But in the face of absolute crushing strength, luck seems insignificant......

Although the opponent's hit rate was good, and he hit a few fairy balls, but in the end, in front of the West Lafayette gang, it was still difficult to escape defeat!

Elite Quarterfinals!

Equals last season's record!

After reaching the quarterfinals, Richard's team set off a wave of craze in the United States!

"Seriously, I must have hoped that my alma mater, UCLA, would win the championship, but I watched two West Lafayette gang games and I have to be honest to say that they are better than UCLA in terms of strength and maturity of the players......

"I feel like UCLA has a good chance of losing......"

"Hey, I hope God can bless my alma mater, UCLA......"

After the Pacers' game, their star Reggie Miller said the above answer when he was asked by a reporter who would be more optimistic about the NCAA championship.

Just like the status of Green Kai and the Lakers in the league, UCLA is also a giant in the NCAA league......

The full name is UCLA, the team name is the Brown Bears, and the entire team history is extremely brilliant, with 10 championships in 12 years, including a wave of seven consecutive championships, which is definitely a super record that has never been seen since!

In addition to the glorious championship record in team history, UCLA has also produced countless superstars for the NBA!

Abdul-Jabbar, Marquis Johnson, Reggie Miller, Bill Wharton, and later generations of Wei Shao, Guo Fu, Ariza, and others all came out of this school.

UCLA, as the top seed in the West Conference this season, is also the favorite to win the championship, but their alumnus Miller is clearly not very optimistic about UCLA......

As a top star in the NBA, Reggie Miller's vision is obviously very vicious, and he knows very well that although UCLA is in a good situation at present, it is very likely that the ending will be miserable when it encounters the West Lafayette gang!

As soon as Reggie Miller's words came out, it immediately caused an uproar in the basketball circle of Lao Mei!

UCLA alumni are not optimistic about UCLA winning the championship?! Their head coach, Jim Harrick, was directly unhappy......

"Reggie, let's think about how to get past Jordan first, you don't need to care about the NCAA game!"

"I don't think there's anything powerful about those newcomers, we have three powerful seniors in the team, and they will definitely give those new melons a lesson that will never be forgotten!"

'They don't pose any threat to us at all, and the quarter-finals could be the end of their season!'

"UCLA wins!"

……

The quarterfinals of the Purdue University Boilermakers team are about to start, and Richard took Big Ben and Iverson to the pre-game press conference held by the organizing committee.

"Coach Richard, what's your opinion on the recent nationwide talk about the war of words between Coach Jim and Reggie Miller?" The reporter asked Richard.

"Oh? Is that the same Coach Jim who said he was going to teach us a lesson to remember? Richard smiled playfully, his fingertips habitually tapping on the table in front of him.

The reporter nodded.

Richard suddenly burst out laughing: "Hey, Reggie's words are actually wrong......

The reporters were stunned, Reggie said that you have a good chance of winning UCLA, which is wrong?!

Could it be that Richard wanted to carry forward the temperament of a humble gentleman and praise the basketball mecca UCLA?

But Richard's next words made the reporters roll their eyes, and the nickname of the West Lafayette gang was really appropriate.

"It's not just a good chance that we win at UCLA, it's a sure win!"

"Seriously, since the retirement of their meritorious assistant coach Coach Wooden, their name as the mecca of UCLA basketball has not lived up to its name......"

"How did they win us?! Relying on the three seniors on their team who can't even get into the NBA? ”

"Haha, that's probably the funniest joke I've heard this season......"

Richard grinned and laughed loudly, as did Big Ben and Iverson.

"This coach Jim, I'm afraid he's a basketball layman, I'm afraid he thinks that age is the key factor that dominates the outcome of the game, and I'm sorry to tell this layman that strength is!" Big Ben said disdainfully into the microphone in front of him......

"I'm going to score 40 points in the finals against UCLA!"

"Of course, if that garbage team makes it to the finals!"

Iverson's expression was cold......

The reporters in the audience rolled their eyes, good guys, I don't blame the fans for giving them a nickname for the West Lafayette gangster, look at this attitude, it's even more gangster than the gangster......

As the two hottest teams to win the championship this season, before they met in the game, they started talking in advance, and it was not an ordinary mouth cannon, and the intensity was almost scolding each other......

Naturally, the fans liked to hear it, and they wished that the storm would come more violently!

The next match is the final of the four divisions, and the winner will enter the final four list!

For this crucial game, the entire Boilermaker team was extremely relaxed......

Because they have a reason to relax.

The opponent is none other than the poor version of the University of Wisconsin, led by Jordan Finley!

I have to say that Finley's performance this season is perfect, and he has led the wild card Wisconsin to the division finals by himself, and his performance is really impressive!

But his explosive performance must have come to an abrupt end, because he met the boilermen, an old enemy of the same league......