After suffering three consecutive ACL tears and enduring a canceled season last year, Penn's Jelani Williams, a fifth-year senior, finally played in his first collegiate home game -- an 85-57 win over Lafayette at the Palestra in Philadelphia -- on Tuesday night.
He had waited 1,795 days for that opportunity.
The 23-year-old Williams suffered a torn ACL for the first time as a senior in high school at Sidwell Friends School in Washington. It would be nearly five years before he had the chance to play in a real basketball game again.
As he thought about the challenges he's had to overcome, Williams couldn't contain his emotions.