Why did the University of San Francisco, where Wang Junjie played, change from an NCAA championship to a weak team

The Asian Cup of Men's Basketball Team ended, and the Chinese men's basketball team won the runner-up with outstanding performance. The team's tenacity and unity and cooperation spirit have won the respect and praise of all fans, especially the young player Wang Junjie's performance of daring to fight and taking responsibility, bringing great surprises and hopes to Chinese fans. Many people even predict that he will become the next NBA player of Chinese nationality. Is that really so optimistic?

First of all, let’s talk about the conclusion. Although Wang Junjie performed well in this Asian Cup and was selected for the best team in the tournament, he is still far from being an NBA player. He is not an international player in the traditional sense. He is on the path of growth of American players. He participated in the NBA Global Elite Program in high school, entered the American college scouting field through NBA basketball boundary activities and sports brand training camps. Later, he was invited to join the University of San Francisco. Next, he needs to establish his reputation through NCAA performance in order to participate in the NBA draft in the future.

Wang Junjie has played for two seasons at San Francisco University. Last season, he became the team's starter in his sophomore season, but his performance is very average. His season data is playing 33 games, ranking 7th in the team per game, with an average of 20 minutes per game, averaging 6.2 points (7th in the team) and 3.3 rebounds per game, shooting percentage is only 40.8%, three-point shooting percentage is 29.9%, and free throw shooting percentage is 57.1%. It can be said that there is no outstanding data. It is a dream to participate in the NBA draft with this performance.

There are endless young talented players in the United States, but there are countless cases of successfully entering the NBA through four years of college games step by step and accumulate strength. Recently, Zach Edith and Kneckett, who are more familiar to fans, have become the NBA first-round picks by relying on their dominance in their senior season. Therefore, Wang Junjie needs to redouble his efforts in the next two years and launch a strong impact on the NBA.

Today I will focus on the University of San Francisco, Wang Junjie's alma mater. This university men's basketball team was once a top-class team in the United States. The most well-known player in the team history is Bill Russell, the legend of the Celtics and nicknamed the Lord of the Rings. During his time with the Celtics from 1956 to 1969, he won 11 NBA championships and 5 MVPs. He won various honors. Before joining the NBA, he led the University of San Francisco to create a myth in the NCAA League in the United States. Phil Wolpert, the University of San Francisco Hall of Fame coach, took office in 1950. He was not only the team's men's basketball coach but also the school's athletics director. In 1953, he discovered Bill Russell, who had previously been unknown, and recruited him into the team. At that time, the problem of discrimination against black people in the United States was still very serious. Wolpert recruited Russell under tremendous pressure. It turned out that his decision indirectly rewrites the history of American basketball. In 1955, his junior season and senior season in 1956, Russell led the University of San Francisco to win the March Crazy Championships. They became the second team in NCAA history to complete the great defence of the title. In addition, the team also set a record of 60 consecutive victories.

Later, with Russell's great success in the NBA, basketball became a sports business card for the University of San Francisco. His huge reputation attracted talented high school students to join continuously, and the team continued to achieve good results, forming a virtuous cycle.

But later, as the competition for recruitment of American universities became more and more intense, all universities began to use off-track recruitment, and the trains moving forward at high speed lost control or even derailed. The University of San Francisco men's basketball team was named San Francisco Towns. Off the court, a well-known alumni and successful person in the team, formed an organization called "Downes Century Club". The chairman of the organization is the school's meritorious lady Louis Sabala. He is a California electric tycoon and has his own power company. He serves as the president of the Western Electrical Association of the United States. His younger brother is an associate professor of theology at the University of San Francisco. His family not only provides huge financial sponsorship to the University of San Francisco, but also plays an important role in helping the school basketball team recruit players privately.

San Francisco Hall of Fame student Louis Sabala

Under the NCAA league recruitment rules at the time, in order to maintain the purity of American college sports, any university must not have interest or financial support when recruiting players, otherwise it will be defined as illegal recruitment and will be severely punished by bans and deprivation of results. The "Downs Century Club" bypassed the rules to privately fund recruiting talented high school students for the University of San Francisco. In the 1970s, the NCAA League conducted two investigations on the University of San Francisco, both because of the problem of Towns Century Club illegally recruiting players for the school. They illegally provided funding and consumer reimbursement for players and their families. These two investigations also led to the resignation of two coaches of the team. The school principal John Roh Shawo in 1980 After the second case in 2019 was resolved, the school's athletic director was issued an ultimatum: If any similar incident occurs again, the school will close the basketball program.

Another problem is that the players recruited by the basketball team are in a mess in their academic performance, or they don’t study at all, which has a bad impact on the school’s teaching environment. The school basketball coaches and sports supervisors are very indulging in the players for the team’s performance, and even arrange alternative exams and fake grades to make these basketball students successfully qualified for students. Moreover, once the players and other students conflict, the school will protect these players more, especially black players, because they are treated like babies because of the racial issues. Over time, the basketball players at the University of San Francisco have become a privileged group on campus. They can not attend classes or study, and no one dares to mess with them. As long as they play the basketball well, it is enough.

The school dormitory manager at the time recalled that basketball players would unscrupulously bring public property on campus back to the dormitory for their own use. Many players blatantly plant contraindicated products such as marijuana in the dormitory, but school administrators often gave them a glimpse of the.

Finally, in 1980, a vicious scandal broke out on the school's basketball destiny. In 1979, the school recruited Quentin Daly, the best high school student in the United States. It was rumored that more than 200 universities issued recruitment invitations to him at that time, and he finally chose the University of San Francisco, and quickly became a stalwart in the school with the halo of basketball genius.

Under Daley's leadership, although the team toured one round in March in 1980 and 1981, they still dominate the WCC West Coast League and won the league championship in a row. Daley was arranged to be the team captain in his junior season. In the early morning of December 21, 1981, because it was the Christmas holiday in the United States, Daley and several classmates held Christmas parties on the third floor of the dormitory, and everyone drank a lot. Then he and his teammate Eric Booker moved a mattress from the third floor to the second floor. At that time, the dormitory administrator on the third floor was a senior in the school's senior nursing major. After hearing the noise, she went out to see the situation. Daley smiled and told her that he was going to the second floor for Christmas holiday. She didn't take it seriously and went back to her house.

But at three o'clock in the morning, the girl's nightmare came. Daly broke into her house drunk and said irrelevant words to her. The girl kept persuading him to leave, but he was unmoved. Then he asked her to kiss him and leave. The girl had no choice but to kiss him, but he did not leave. The girl tried to chat with Daly again. Daly talked about the basketball team and his girlfriend, and then He suddenly said angrily, "She is gone... she won't come back." The senior sister comforted and said, "Okay, I don't want you to vent my anger on me." But then Daly pushed the senior sister back with her hand and kissed her forcibly. The senior sister broke free and shouted for help, but a basketball player obviously had overwhelming power. He pressed the senior sister to the ground again, covered her mouth and made her shut up, and threatened that if she didn't shut up, she would take out a gun to hurt her.

Later, Daley lay on her senior sister. Although she did not conduct direct invasion, she carried out behaviors including her personal sister's private parts and touching her private parts with her senior sister's hands. It lasted until after 5 a.m. that Daley fell asleep on the senior sister's bed. The senior sister quietly broke free while he was sleeping, and then ran out and happened to meet the dormitory administrator Charlie Reins. She quickly called Reins in horror and said that there was someone in her room. Reins immediately knocked on the door vigilantly, but suddenly Daley in the room rushed out and fled quickly. Reins chased after him, and the calmed senior sister told the school management about the situation. But what was disheartening was that the school management actually carried out sheltering behavior after hearing that the suspect was Daly.

First, the school's safety director Yasinitsky did not let the female senior report the case as soon as possible, which missed the key evidence retention link. He directly found Daly to ask about the situation, and Daly denied all the situation. He said that he had slept in the dormitory that night. Then Yasinitsky pressured the victim and advised her not to accuse Daly if she was not sure enough. She also analyzed that Daly did not leave direct evidence and was difficult to convict, which made the female senior extremely angry. In the end, she resolutely chose to report to J.

The school management found Reins and indirectly implied that the person he met was definitely not Daly. Reins, who was under pressure from the school, did make vague remarks in his testimony. He said that he was highly myopic and did not wear myopia glasses, and was not sure who the escaped man was. Daly's lawyer team said that a street gangster living near the University of South Florida looked very much like Daly, and he bragged to his friends that he had pretended to be Daly. Daly's teammate Calvin Tom also testified that he had been together that night. In addition, Daly also took care of his bald hairstyle, which was believed to be to deliberately create a contradiction with the accusation testimony with his senior sister.

On January 27, Daly voluntarily went to the police headquarters for a polygraph test. The polygraph test was not used as evidence in the California court, but on February 5, the police headquarters announced the lie detection results. Daly was deceptive. In addition, during the interrogation, Daly could not withstand the pressure of interrogation and admitted that he was indeed in the senior sister's house at that time, but did not intend to hurt her. In addition, Daly also confessed during the interrogation that Louis Sabala, chairman of the "Downs Century Club", provided him with a false position in the power company, giving him a fixed salary of $1,000 a month. In addition, he gave him a large red envelope of $5,000 on Christmas 1980. The money was a huge sum of money at the time, and Daly was then officially arrested.

On February 16, Daly was released on bail with $5,000. After his release, he was still arranged to participate in the competition. Perhaps to prove his worth to the school, he scored 43 points in his comeback game. Although the court has not yet issued a verdict, his behavior has had a huge negative impact on the school. After the first round hearing on March 22, the NBA draft will be held on June 29. If Daly refuses to plead guilty, the trial will continue until the end of the NBA draft, so even if he is acquitted in the subsequent trial, he will definitely miss the NBA draft. If he is convicted in the trial, he will never be a professional player. Finally, at the advice of the lawyer team, Daly chose to admit the slightest punishment of the many charges. Off the court, Daly's lawyer team also actively communicated with his seniors and finally reached a settlement with $100,000 in compensation. Later, Daly was sentenced to three years of probation. After the incident was resolved, Daly was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 7th pick in the first round in the 1982 draft.

Although the incident was resolved, Daly, the University of San Francisco and the NBA all became losers. The widespread media coverage discredited the University of San Francisco. In the end, the president, Shawo, decided to break his arm and survive. He announced the disbandment of the school basketball team, which caused a huge sensation at the time. Since then, the University of San Francisco basketball program has been in a slump. In 1985, the school reopened the basketball program, but in the past 40 years this year, it only scored twice in March Crazy, and it was even more uncompetitive in recruiting students. The last time the team recruited star-rated high school students was Jordan Ratinho, a Samsung high school student in 2016..

Principal Shawo announced the dissolution of the school basketball team. In the NBA, many female groups kept protesting and putting pressure on the NBA, accusing the league of choosing a QB culprit to enter the league, which also had a huge negative impact on the NBA. The then-director Stern felt much pressure. Four years later, when Ren Baias died of excessive D absorption just after being selected by the NBA, the then American commentator pointed out mercilessly: The NBA league is simply a garbage shelter. "This sentence deeply hurt Stern. He learned from his mistakes and began to reform, with zero tolerance for DP and crime issues, and finally gradually changed the NBA image.

After understanding the basketball history of San Francisco University, you should be able to feel that Wang Junjie is in a difficult mode for playing here, and he has not become the absolute core of such a team. It can be seen how big the gap is between him and the NBA. I hope Wang Junjie can continue to make progress in the next two years, and ultimately help San Francisco University rise again and help the Chinese men's basketball team rise again.