Daily News | Former Penn guard Jelani Williams sang a lullaby to lift Howard to the NCAA Tournament
Jelani Williams, right, is in the NCAA Tournament with Howard after transferring from Penn. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Craig Hudsonon Mar 16, 2023, 6:01 a.m. ET
Athletes tend to be creatures of habit, so there was Williams Saturday afternoon in Norfolk, Va., on the free throw line in the MEAC championship game, his Howard Bison down one point to Norfolk State with six seconds left on the clock. Make two free throws and Howard is in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 31 years.
The free throw dropped. Down the other end, Norfolk State inbounded to the man Williams was guarding. A well-defended baseline drive resulted in a miss, Williams throwing his arms in the air as the game clock expired — a celebration years and many missed games due to injury in the making. “There are certain moments where life kind of aligns for you and it feels right and it feels like where you’re supposed to be at that point in time and that’s how I felt when I visited Howard,” Williams said.during 2020 and beyond. Howard, one of the nation’s foremost HBCUs, was a place where Williams could continue that work.But the focus of Penn’s protest, Williams said, was “rudimentary.” He majored in communications with a focus on advocacy and activism, and minored in Africana studies.
Howard coach Kenny Blakeney challenged the team to come up with a social justice project. In the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, that project is the issue of Black maternal health and the implications of the case reversal on Black women. He scored just two points in Howard’s MEAC quarterfinal win and six in the semifinals. But he dominated in the final, getting his 20 points while shooting 6-for-11 from the field — including 1 of 2 from beyond the arc — and 7-for-8 from the free-throw line.
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