Mo Ran's direct defeat of Marcus Canby not only allowed him to enter the lottery on Sports Illustrated's rookie forecast list.
It made him the cover of many American newspapers and magazines the next day.
To the media, Mo Ran leading the team to eliminate Canbi was not the main point.
The main point was:
Mo Ran knocked over the basketball hoop at North Shore Garden Arena!
The New York Daily decisively used Mo Ran to flip over the basketball hoop and grab the basket with one hand as the cover of the newspaper.
"Patrick, is this the junior from your alma mater?”
New York.
In the training arena of the NBA team, the New York Knicks.
John Starks brought the latest New York Daily to Patrick Ewing."
"This guy did something big in Boston!”
As he spoke, Starks placed the newspaper cover in front of Ewing.""This big guy knocked over the basketball hoop!”
"And it's in North Shore Gardens!"
He knocked over the basketball hoop in an NBA arena, and it was in a famous arena like North Shore Garden.
No wonder John Starks was so excited.
"Calm down, John."
But Ewing looked very calm."I saw the news last night."
"Have you been paying attention to Mo Ran?”
"Of course, he's my junior. He's representing Georgetown in the NCAA Tournament!”
Ewing almost threw the basketball in his hand at Starks 'face.""No one pays more attention to Mo Ran than I do!”
When it came to Georgetown University, there was no exception to their history of dominating the Great Eastern Alliance.
The history of Patrick Ewing was also the eternal glory of Georgetown.
In 1982, Patrick Ewing, who was still a freshman, led Georgetown to the finals.
Then, Georgetown became the backdrop for Michael Jordan's fatal shot.
The first famous scene of Jordan's career was born in front of Patrick Ewing.
Two years later, in the 1984 NCAA finals.
Ewing led Georgetown to defeat the University of Houston.
For the first time in Patrick Ewing's career, he faced his lifelong rival, Hakeem Olajuwon.
In that final, Ewing defeated The Dream and won the first championship of his career.
He was also the only champion so far.
In 1985, Georgetown made it to the finals again, but unfortunately, they did not win the championship.
Throughout Patrick Ewing's career in Georgetown.
In his four years in university, he had entered the finals three times and won the championship once.
He was definitely the first player in the history of Georgetown.
As the first player in the history of Georgetown, how could Ewing not pay attention to Mo Ran, an elite junior from his alma mater, appearing out of nowhere?
"Seriously, Patrick, do you want to watch Mo's game live?”
Charles Oakley joined the conversation."I heard that Decambe went to watch the Georgetown game live.”
"If they can enter the finals, I will definitely watch the match live.”
" Don't forget," Ewing smiled." Where's the venue for this year's NCAA finals?"”
Just as Ewing had said.
The stadium for this year's NCAA Championship finals was the home of the New York Knicks, the Maiden Square Garden!
The finals were on his home ground, so Ewing was too lazy to go watch the other matches.
It was enough to watch the final match.
Ewing did not choose to watch the Georgetown Elite Top Four matches live.
The other two legendary centers of Georgetown were at the venue of the semifinals.
Alonzo Mourning and Dikambe Mutumbo publicly stated in separate television interviews,"
They would be going to the semifinals to cheer for Mo Ran and Georgetown!
After the two All-Star players said that they would go to the stadium to watch the game, the players who were in the middle of the court were all stunned.
ESPM also announced their plans to broadcast the NCAA live across the United States.
The semi-finals between Georgetown and Wake Forest would be the last live broadcast of the game before the finals on ESPN.
At that time, ESPM would also invite Mourning and Mutumbo to gather in the commentary booth to act as guest commentators for the game.
Except for the two former comrades of Georgetown, they would reunite in the commentary booth.
ESPM also focused on the topic of Mo Ran vs. Duncan, raising the popularity of the semifinals to an unprecedented height.
It wasn't just the US media that attached great importance to this semi-final.
Far away on the other side of the ocean, in China.
Due to Mo Ran's high viewership ratings for the NCAA match, he almost broke the viewership record for a recorded sports program.
Therefore, CCTV decided to try broadcasting the NCAA knockout matches live.
However, the condition was that it had to be Mo Ran's match.
Coincidentally, after David Stern returned to the United States, the first thing he did was to establish a relationship between the NCAA and CCTV.
Mo Ran had successfully advanced to the semifinals.
CCTV also decisively decided that it would officially broadcast Mo Ran's NCAA semi-finals live on April 2nd, US time, and April 3rd, China time!
Once this live broadcast trailer was broadcast, it instantly exploded in the Chinese basketball circle.
Many Chinese fans who did not have the chance to watch television also learned of this news through the newspapers and word of mouth.
Without a doubt.
The amount of attention that the semifinals between George Town and Wake Forest would receive was unknown, but it was definitely unprecedented!
Mo Ran, who had flown back to Washington with the team from Boston, did not know that CCTV was going to broadcast the NCAA semi-finals live.
As soon as he returned to Washington, Mo Ran went back to his dormitory and had a good sleep.
There was a long interval between the quarterfinals and the semifinals, giving the top four teams time to rest.
Coach John Thompson also took the opportunity to introduce the top four teams to his players.
The first one, Georgetown, didn't need much introduction.
Iverson and Mo Ran led the team, and Jerome Williams and Caucella Harrington were also pretty good players.
The second one, Wake Forest.
Superstar Tim Duncan led the team to defeat Georgetown in the knockout stages last season and eventually stopped in the top four.
The third team was the University of California, which had Sharif Rahim, a popular rookie in the 1996s.
The opponent of the University of California's semi-finals was the famous basketball school, the University of Kentuckia!
In this season, there was Antoine Walker, nicknamed Fat Dhuta.
At the same time, there were also Tony Delk, Derek Anderson, Walter Mccarty, and Ron Moselle.
"Currently, the outside world thinks that Kentucky-based teams are the favorites to win the championship. Their lineup is also the best among the top four teams.”
Coach John Thompson focused on introducing Kentucky.
His understanding was completely correct.
If Mo Ran remembered correctly, all of the players on the list that Coach Thompson had just read out were future NBA players.
Antoine Walker did not elaborate.
Derek Anderson and Ron Moselle had both scored 12 points per game in their NBA careers.
Anderson was the No. 13 pick in 1997. With the help of this magical lineup, he had an average score of 16.9 points per game in his peak season!
Ron Moselle was even better.
He was selected by the Celtics with the sixth pick in the 1997 draft.
In the first five seasons of his career, his average points per game were all above 15 points. In his peak season, he even had an average of 19.7 points per game with the Bulls!
In other words.
The bottom line of the lineup of the Kentuckian team was that they would be able to win the lottery in the 1996 draft.
His strength was evident!
Kentuckian didn't waste its powerful manpower.
April 1st, US time.
The first match of the NCAA semi-finals began.
The University of Kent beat the University of California by 17 points in the finals of the State of Pennsylvania.
Sharif Rahim's dream of winning the championship was shattered.
After 16 years, Kent returned to the NCAA finals!
Sixteen years ago, the University of Kentuckia won the NCAA finals in 1978.
16 years later, they were once again standing on the final stage, pointing to the championship champion!
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