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The hope of Korean basketball, Lee Hyun-joong made his debut in the American college basketball NCAA tournament called 'March's Frenzy' and wrote a new history.
Lee Hyun-joong scored 11 points and played hard, but the team was unfortunately eliminated.
Correspondent Lee Jeong-chan.
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Hyun-joong received a lot of attention ahead of the college basketball tournament, 'March Madness', one of the largest sports festivals in the United States.
[Lee Hyun-joong / Davidson University: I also turned off social media notifications to focus on the game.
A lot of interest is burdensome, but I use it as a motivation to work harder.]
Lee Hyun-joong, who started in the round of 64 against Michigan State University, set a new milestone in Korean basketball.
He scored the first goal for a Korean male player with his long three-point shot, and added points with clever moves despite concentration checks.
In the second half, when Davidson University, which had led Lee Hyun-joong's three stores, succeeded in coming back, her mother Seong Jeong-ah, who was cheering from the audience, was introduced to the broadcast.
[Local broadcast: This is Lee Hyun-joong's mother.
He is a silver medalist in basketball at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.]
Davidson's back was disappointing.
He gave up the victory by conceding consecutive goals at the last minute, and Lee Hyun-joong's 3-point shot was fired 0.5 seconds before the end, four points behind, but that was it.
In a one-point loss, Hyunjoong Lee recorded 11 points and 4 rebounds.
This season, Lee Hyun-joong, who has grown into a top-ranking small forward in American college basketball and led the team to 'March Frenzy', has built up valuable experiences and built up his dream for the NBA.
(Video editing: So Ji-hye)