CHICAGO — Alex Olah hadn't seen his parents in a year and a half. His entire junior year, nothing. Just Skype and Facebook.
"Not seeing them for so long — you could feel it," Olah said. "You miss it."
It was a feeling Olah knew well. During his junior year in high school, the seven-foot center moved 5,000 miles from Timisoara, Romania to Zionsville, Indiana, in an effort to further his basketball career at Traders Point Christian Academy.
"There's not a better continent to be on to play basketball than this," Olah said. "But it was really tough.