The busy September was coming to an end, and the two-week 2021 Wuhan University Freshmen Basketball Match was also successfully concluded. The SIM women's basketball team and the SIM men's basketball team played hard and united together, and achieved good results in the third place in the women's team and the top eight in the men's team respectively.

The women's basketball team members have had high morale and were on a roll. They have successively defeated the teams from the School of Civil Engineering, the School of Journalism and Communication, the School of Urban Design, and successfully entered the semi-finals.

At 5: 00 p.m. on September 28, the competition for the third place in the women's basketball team kicked off with the drums, and the SIM women's basketball team played against the women's basketball team of the School of Journalism and Communication at Songqing Gymnasium. The golden sunset and the women's basketball team's dashing and heroic posture enhanced each other’s beauty. The coach's off-site guidance and cheerleading team's shouting made the team full of strength, and the continuous scoring also ignited the atmosphere on the spot. In the end, the SIM women's basketball team defeated the School of Journalism and Communication by a total score of 16: 11, and won the third place in 2021 Wuhan University Freshmen Basketball Match.

Autumn sunshine was scorching, but it was difficult to stop the passion of men's basketball players. In the previous matches, the SIM men's basketball team beat the teams of School of Law, School of Philosophy, School of Physics and Technology, and School of Mathematics and Statistics continuously with great advantages, and successfully entered the quarter-finals with a record of four consecutive victories.

In the eight-into-four match, the SIM men's basketball team met the School of Computer Science. Despite the sweat, the team members' enthusiasm and willpower did not diminish. They played hard to cooperate and respond with great agility, and seized every opportunity to score. However, the score was finally fixed at 20: 26, stopping at the quarter-finals. Tenacious fighting spirit and spirit of fighting relentlessly they displayed on the playground made us believe that the SIM men's basketball team will have a greater breakthrough in the future.

We look forward to the wonderful performance of the SIM men’s basketball team in the future!