Penn coach Steve Donahue sat with Jelani Williams last month and listened to a doctor go over the prognosis.
Williams broke a finger during the Quakers’ Feb. 12 game against Harvard. He needed two screws inserted into his left hand. The recovery timeline was four to six weeks.
“The doctor’s kind of looking at me, like, ‘Don’t expect this kid to play’ kind of a look,” Donahue said.
But this was no ordinary athlete. This was the same man who lost three consecutive basketball seasons to three separate ACL tears. What was one finger?
Not enough to keep Williams from playing in Ivy Madness at the conclusion of his first and last season with the Quakers. The Penn senior achieved his dream of playing in the Ivy League tournament Saturday, but the third-seeded Quakers’ season ended with a semifinal loss to Yale 67-61.
Though Williams has two seasons of NCAA eligibility remaining, Ivy League regulations prevent him from using them as a graduate student at Penn. Donahue…
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