UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — When Yor Anei woke up last Wednesday, an ostensibly quiet Dallas morning before the vestiges of the holiday took hold, he did so with a mix of trepidation and eagerness.
He was told in the days leading up that he would have a chance to play in his first college basketball game in 280 days. The memories of the last time he had touched a basketball in any meaningful capacity, all the way back on March 11 in Kansas City, naturally crept into the recesses of his mind.