The play was one Da’Monte Williams had made several times before in his high school career.
Williams went up for a block just a little over a minute into Peoria Manuel’s game against Bloomington on Dec. 2, 2016, during Williams’ senior year.
When he came down, Williams knew something was not quite right with the way he landed on his knee, but no one knew the true severity of the injury.
“They said it was just a knee bruise,” Williams said. “We didn’t find out for another week what it actually was.”
Williams, in fact, had a torn ACL.