Quarterfinals, Old Rival

Beep—!!

As the final whistle sounded, the bright red numbers on the electronic scoreboard at the sidelines finally froze on the cruel score of Miuradai 120:60 Jousei.

Such a textbook double-score gap was hard to imagine in the second round of the Winter Cup.

Yet no matter what, the game had ultimately ended in a brutal sixty-point slaughter.

Wu Yufei and the other main players had only taken turns appearing in the final few minutes. Coach Harada's purpose was simple: to let them maintain their touch.

After all, this was still an official Winter Cup Round of 16 match.

With this completely one-sided rout coming to an end, Miuradai became the first team to advance to the Winter Cup quarterfinals.

As for the remaining seven spots, they would be decided one after another in the matches to follow.

Twenty minutes later, in another arena, the game that had started only twenty minutes after the one in Court One also reached its conclusion.

Shohoku High, in Group B, had likewise defeated one of the host teams, Akizuki High, by more than fifty points.

Kanagawa Prefecture now had two teams in the quarterfinals, while Ryonan's chances of advancing also looked extremely promising.

This year, it seemed they would once again see the same grand spectacle as last year, with three teams from Kanagawa sweeping the top three spots in the Winter Cup!

The spectators were no longer as shocked as they had been last year. Instead, they found it perfectly normal.

After all, among these three Kanagawa teams, Miuradai had been the National Tournament champion for three consecutive years, while Shohoku and Ryonan were both powerhouses that had once been runners-up in the National Tournament and Winter Cup.

Wu Yufei did not pay much attention to the games in the other venues.