This story appears in the Nov. 6, 2017, issue of Sports Illustrated. Subscribe to the magazine here.
Everyone was supposed to share something unique. This was the first day of Principles of Managerial Accounting, in Mississippi State's McCool Hall, and to break the ice the professor asked each student, in alphabetical order by surname, to tell the class one such fact. Most were what you'd expect: One student had transferred from South Carolina; another had double-jointed elbows. Morgan William, a senior guard on the women's basketball team, fretted as she awaited her turn, then settled on some anatomical trivia: Though she stands 5'3", her wingspan is 5'11".