Akagi's confidence is back thanks to Sakuragi's headbutt also Sakuragi's defence is too weak hence he gets fouls everytime and should've been work out from the beginning.
Sakuragi's injured, it turns out to be a blessing in disguise now that they can break the coordinates of Ryonan since they eliminate the weaklink who is a shitty defender.
So Rukawa has been saving his stamina for 2nd half, genius considering that he gave everything his got against Kainan in the first half which exhaust him and barely made it to the last.
Sad, there was a basketball player called Yakawa who trained under Anzai and disregard the basics then went to America and thought he could do much better there than learning from Anzai. His team from America couldn't care about him and he went nowhere and died. Good thing Rukawa made a different path.
Akagi got an offer from the top university of Japan if he can make it to the top 8 on the national game. Good for him for telling them what he wants to do. Sakuragi lost to Rukawa.