MONROE, La. -- ULM women's basketball associate head coach E.J. Ok was recently featured in the April 2014 issue of the KoreAm Journal.
Article Courtesy: Steve Han
One of the Greats
With three hours to go before tipoff, the line outside Ewing Coliseum on the campus of Northeast Louisiana University circled around the arena. An antsy crowd of 7,000 eagerly waitied to enter for the biggest and most anticipated game of March Madness basketball in the school's history.
The Lady Indians were about to take on their longtime rivals, Louisiana Tech, in the NCAA Midwest Regional championship for a berth in the nation's Final Four.
As the game got underway, fervent chants of “EJ! EJ!” from the crowd reverberated inside the arena at eardrum-splittling levels, as fans showed their appreciation for NLU's star player, E.J., short for Eun Jung, Lee. The junior point guard, who only came to the U.S. from Gimje, South Korea, three years earlier, had already earned a special place in the hearts of these fans.
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