This game was unfavorable for the University of Washington right from the start.

In this year’s NCAA tournament, the University of Washington had a very favorable draw.

Their opponents in the first two rounds were the University of Montana and the University of the Pacific, neither of which are traditional powerhouses.

So, the University of Washington’s advancement through the first two rounds could be described as effortless.

When they reached the Sweet Sixteen, they faced a young Louisville team that hadn’t made the Final Four in twenty years. It looked like they were about to advance again, but instead, they suffered a crushing defeat.

In the end, the University of Washington was eliminated without even putting up a fight.

As his main team for next season, Yes was, of course, very interested in the University of Washington’s performance in the NCAA.

This season, in terms of results, the University of Washington defeated the University of Arizona to win the conference championship and made it to the Sweet Sixteen of the tournament—an impressive achievement.

But in terms of how they played, Yes was a bit disappointed.

Dean and the others said he could just go to the University of Washington and win a championship effortlessly.

Nate Robinson and Webster would be one of the strongest duos in the NCAA next season.

Add in Roy and Conroy, plus he could contribute a bit himself.

Next season, the University of Washington would indeed be strong, and it was indeed possible for him to win a championship with little effort.

That was what he thought before.

But after watching this game, he no longer thought that way.

With the addition of Martell Webster, an all-around forward, some of the University of Washington’s problems in the paint could indeed be solved.

But his good friend Webster is actually not a traditional inside player.

His physical gifts are indeed excellent, but he plays more like a perimeter-oriented forward.

You could say Webster is a perimeter player!

Letting a perimeter player solve problems in the paint?

Webster absolutely cannot solve the University of Washington’s current problems!

Even if Webster had played in this game, the University of Washington still wouldn’t have been able to beat Louisville.

That’s how Yes saw it as a spectator.

Spectators can spot problems, but it’s up to the head coach, Romar, to solve them.

Romar surely knows by now that the team needs a core inside player, and he surely knows that even if Webster plays power forward in the future, he still can’t solve the team’s problems in the paint.

But...

With the chance to recruit Webster, would you really pass it up?

He’s a first-team All-American high school player!

Since they lack a core inside player, they’ll just have to recruit one. Whether they can get one is another matter.

After Roy left last time, besides working on his speed training, Yes was also preparing for the SAT exam in the US.

The SAT is the qualification exam for high school students to enter college in the US.

Only by getting a certain score on the SAT do you qualify for college.

As for which college you can attend, that depends on each school’s independent admissions process.

Most universities in the US have independent admissions, and Yes was admitted to the University of Washington through this process.

But if Yes did terribly on the SAT and didn’t even meet the minimum qualification line, then sorry—even if the University of Washington wanted to admit him, they couldn’t.

The University of Washington can offer Yes admission and a scholarship, but whether Yes is qualified to attend college is determined by his SAT score.

It’s a bit like the college entrance exam in China: even if Tsinghua or Peking University gives you early admission and doesn’t require a high score, you still have to pass the minimum threshold. That’s the idea.

To meet this threshold, Roy took the test four times.

Yes is certainly not like Roy, who has a learning disability; his academic performance has always been good.

Just as he predicted, at the end of March, his SAT score was released, and it was more than a thousand points higher than what the University of Washington required!

That’s like an art student in China, who only needs 350 points on the college entrance exam, scoring 700!

When Yes’s SAT results came out, Roy and the others had already finished this year’s NCAA journey. Seeing Yes’s SAT score, Roy remained silent.

“Ye, you know, right now Brandon must be thinking, this score is fake. How could this score possibly be real? I never saw you study much, and Coach Floyd always complained that you spent too much time on basketball. How could you possibly get such an SAT score? This must be fake!”

Uh, Will, you really know Brandon...

“I remember when Brandon took the SAT, he didn’t pass the first time. Starting from the second time, he hired a tutor and studied hard for more than half a year from March, and only barely passed on the fourth try, right?”

Roy passed the SAT on his fourth try, which was also his last chance.

American universities have three enrollment periods: May, August, and January.

If you pass the SAT the first time, you can enroll in May, so most college students enroll in May.

But Roy enrolled in January of the following year.

Roy only played 13 games in his first NCAA season because he missed all the NCAA games before January.

“Ye, you know, yesterday Brandon was still really nervous that you wouldn’t pass the SAT, and now your score has made him feel all kinds of complicated.”

“After we left a while ago, Ye must have been studying hard at home, right? You Chinese are the best at cramming for exams!”