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2021-22 Men's Basketball Roster

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5 Jelani Williams

  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 200
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Washington, D.C.
  • Highschool Sidwell Friends

Biography

2021-22: (Game-by-Game in PDF) Team co-captain … Played in 25 of Penn’s 28 games, missing three late in the season due to injury … Averaged 6.0 points and 3.7 rebounds per game … Tied for the team lead with 29 steals, third with 51 assists … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (all): t-10th in steals per game (1.2), 12th in assists per game (2.0) … AMONG IVY LEAGUE PLAYERS (conference): t-15th in steals per game (1.0) … Had five double-figure scoring games … Had back-to-back 13-point games over a three-day span, against Dartmouth (1/15) and at Princeton (1/17), leading the Quakers in scoring in both games … Also had five rebounds in the win over the Big Green … Set season/career high with 17 points, added a team-high eight rebounds and two steals in a win at Bucknell (11/14) … Scored 11 points with two boards, three steals and two assists at Big 5 foe La Salle (12/11) … Dropped 10 points, added three steals at Myrtle Beach Invitational vs. Davidson (11/19) … In his collegiate debut and first game of any sort in 1,789 days dating back to high school, recorded two points, two assists, one rebound and one steal in nearly 19 minutes at Florida State (11/10) … Followed that up with eight points, a team-high six rebounds and two assists at George Mason (11/12) … Flirted with a double-double with nine points, seven rebounds in home win over Cornell (1/7) … Had nine points and six boards in Penn’s first win at Harvard in a decade (1/28).
 
2020-21: All 2020-21 Ivy League winter sports were canceled on November 12 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.
 
2019-20: Did not see any game action due to injury.
 
2018-19: Did not see any game action due to injury.
 
2017-18: Did not see any game action due to injury.

High School: Four-year letter winner, three-year captain in basketball at Sidwell Friends … Team went 22-6 and won Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAC) championship his senior year … All-MAC First Team as a sophomore and junior, missed much of his senior year due to injury … Honorable mention Washington Post All-Met as a junior.
 
Personal: Son of Alison and Kyle Williams … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 23

    2017-18Freshman

    G
    6'5" 195 lbs
    23
  • 4

    2018-19Sophomore

    G
    6'5" 195 lbs
    4
  • 5

    2019-20Junior

    6'5" 195 lbs
    5
  • 5

    2020-21Senior

    G
    6'5" 205 lbs
    5
  • 5

    2021-22Senior

    G
    6'5" 200 lbs
    5