Chapter 82 What happened?

Connecticut's offense, Walker's drive to the basket failed, and San Diego State University launched a defensive counterattack, with Franklin drawing a foul on Lamb during his drive.

Two free throw opportunities.

"Can I jump? Offensive rebound?" Majok asked Tang Tian during the dead ball.

This Majok was extra cautious, worried about being subbed off for making a mistake on the court.

Tang Tian nodded with a smile. An offensive rebound meant one more possession, which was always a good thing.

Franklin made both free throws, and the point difference remained at 3, the situation on the court still deadlocked.

Walker drove to the frontcourt but was blocked by Leonard, so he dribbled back out, wasting a large portion of the shot clock.

In a stalemate, it depended on who could strike first.

Tang Tian set a screen for Lamb at this moment. Lamb found a sliver of space, and Walker passed him the ball. Lamb caught the ball and launched a pull-up jumper in the face of the opposing power forward.

"Clang!"

The angle and feel of the shot were good, but unfortunately, it lacked a bit of luck, the ball hitting the inside of the rim and bouncing high.

Wright boxed out Majok, and Leonard reached out his big hand, ready to grab the defensive rebound.

But at this moment, Majok jumped up hard from behind Wright, grabbing the rebound before Leonard!

Only jumping ability, but top-notch jumping ability!

Majok grabbed the offensive rebound and then passed the ball to Lamb.

His personality was really good. Besides jumping, Tang Tian didn't let him do anything else, and he really didn't even have the desire to look at the basket.

Lamb was stunned when he caught the ball, but he reacted quickly enough, taking another shot before the San Diego State University players could react.

"Swish!"

Lamb's second shot went in, clean.

The point difference was widened to 5 again.

"Rebounds, protect the rebounds!" This time it was San Diego State University's coach shouting from the sidelines.

The Connecticut fans cheered, and their bench erupted.

Majok's offensive rebound was a latecomer, and he grabbed it against two players, it was simply too awesome.

Calhoun's tightly knitted brows finally relaxed at this time.

Although he didn't know what Tang Tian had said to Majok, Majok had grabbed three rebounds in a row on both defense and offense during this stretch, performing quite perfectly.

Franklin continued to attack the basket, this time performing a mid-air adjustment to avoid Majok's outstretched hand and score the basket.

Majok could only jump, and his defense was relatively average.

The situation remained deadlocked, the back-and-forth point difference making the fans in the arena nervous and breathless.

Connecticut's offense, Walker's strong drive past Leonard was contested and missed.

Majok squeezed past Wright at this moment, and what bounced up seemed not to be a basketball, but a tempting gold nugget.

"Slap!"

With one palm, he grabbed another offensive rebound!

This time, he directly passed the ball to Tang Tian at the corner.

After being shouted at by the coach earlier, the entire San Diego State University defense had collapsed inward, and by the time Tang Tian circled from the top of the key to the corner, he was completely unguarded.

Catching the ball, aiming, jumping, shooting.

The movements were completed in one go.

"Swish!"

The wide-open three-pointer, unerring as usual, went in clean again.

It was his second three-pointer in the second half, and his third of the game!

The point difference was widened to 6!

"Beep! Beep!"

At this moment, the referee's warning whistle came from under the basket. It turned out that Wright had been shoving Majok out of frustration after being repeatedly outrebounded.

Majok had a good temper, raising his hands and not retaliating at all. The referee couldn't stand it and directly gave Wright a warning.

San Diego State University's offense, Wright was desperately making small moves under the basket, trying to repeat his trick and get Majok off the court like he did with Oriakhi.

But Majok wasn't angry at all, letting Wright do all sorts of small moves, like someone impervious to reason.

Wright got a little angry with himself later, not controlling his strength and directly knocking Majok over.

"Beep!"

The referee under the basket had been a little disgusted before, and this time he didn't hold back, directly giving Wright an offensive foul.

The Connecticut fans erupted in cheers and whistles.

They had long been unhappy with this Wright, and being called for an offensive foul now was completely deserved!

Wright's style was very similar to that of the Warriors' Green, but his ability was far worse than Green's.

Connecticut's offense, Majok stood in the paint, and this time even Leonard didn't dare to stick too close to Walker, otherwise Majok might jump up and grab another offensive rebound.

Leonard was still guarding Walker, but there was a distracting detail, which wouldn't matter in a normal situation, but he was facing Walker.

Walker saw his chance and dribbled low, directly changing direction to accelerate past Leonard, and shot a quick bank shot.

Leonard was half a beat slow in his chase, failing to block the shot, and watched as Walker sent the ball into the basket.

Connecticut unleashed a 5-0 run, widening the point difference to 8 points.

This was a sign of momentum.

The coach of San Diego State University couldn't help but spread his hands at the team at this time.

Defensive rebounds were out of control, and one-on-one defense wasn't done well, the team's play during this period was completely unbearable for him.

San Diego State University's offense, Leonard wanted to stand up and score for the team, but Tang Tian didn't give him any chance to enter the restricted area in the second half.

"Clang!"

Leonard's forced shot still failed to hit under Tang Tian's defense.

Majok jumped high again to grab the defensive rebound.

Wright already had three fouls and didn't dare to make small moves at will anymore.

Connecticut directly launched a fast break, this time it was Lamb, catching Walker's pass in transition for a three-pointer.

"Clang!"

The ball hit the back rim, but bounced up a second time and fell into the net.

After an 8-0 run, the point difference was instantly widened to 11 points!

San Diego State University called a timeout.

The Connecticut fans cheered, while the San Diego State University fans were in an uproar.

Connecticut's wave of offense had completely turned the tide.

"What happened? What are you doing?" The coach of San Diego State University was constantly questioning his players with a tactical board in his hand.

No one spoke, and no one could say anything.

This was actually the true strength of San Diego State University. Their interior strength was not good, and they didn't have much shooting ability on the outside. They were only able to enter the tournament because of Franklin's drives and Leonard's performance.

Now that Connecticut was playing targeted defense and protecting the defensive rebounds, just like they did at the start of the game, they could only be beaten by Connecticut.

Although there would be upsets in the NCAA, the people on the committee weren't blind, and the difference in strength between a 4 seed and a 13 seed was still very obvious.