2008-09 Women's Basketball Roster
Biography
Of Note: Became first IUPUI women’s basketball player with five career Summit League First Team honors ... Is one of seven Summit players to reach that plateau ... Needs just 143 rebounds to become the first IUPUI women’s basketball player with 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds .... Needs 18 rebounds to take over first place all-time at IUPUI ... Earned her third straight Preseason First Team All-Conference honor prior to the 2008-09 season (and fifth straight counting postseason honors) ... Sits 7th on The Summit career rebounding ledger, trailing the top spot by 310 boards ... Is 9th in steals, needing 158 to claim first ... Can become the first Summit League player to take home three straight Defensive Player of the Year honors ... Voted team’s co-MVP along with Julia Whitted by teammates and coaching staff.
LAST SEASON: 2007-08 [Junior] Became the first player in IUPUI women’s basketball history to earn a Preseason Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T Watch List nomination ... On Feb. 18, became the 18th IUPUI women’s basketball player with 1,000 career points ... Posted a double-double in that game with 16 points and 12 rebounds ... Finished the season with 12.7 points per game as well as 9.9 rebounds, narrowly missing averaging a double-double for the first time in her career ... Led IUPUI in rebounding and steals, taking home Summit League Defensive Player of the Year honors for the second straight season ... Currently sits 14th in points (1,078), 2nd in rebounds (857), 13th in assists (243), 13th in blocks (39) and 6th in steals (226) after three years at IUPUI ... Among NCAA Division I players, ranked 17th in country in rebounding and 21st in steals with 3.1 per game ... Tallied 13 double-doubles in 2007-08, including a 22-point, 13-steal performance on Nov. 21 at Gardner-Webb ... Currently has 32 career double-doubles, which is an IUPUI record ... 13 steals at GWU were a new school record ... 15 10-plus rebound games paced The Summit ... Named to The Summit League All-Tournament Team ... Picked up three Summit League Player of the Week honors - Nov. 27, Jan. 23 and Feb. 19 ... Was 12th in The Summit in scoring and paced the conference in rebounding ... Was 10th in assists with 3.12 per game and 3.06 steals per contest was 1st ... Finished 2nd in minutes, averaging 35.91 per game ... Upped her numbers in Summit League play, posting 13.5 ppg (9th in the conference), 10.2 rpg (1st), 3.67 apg (8th) and 3.11 spg (t-1st) ... Earned Preseason First Team and Postseason First Team honors for the second consecutive season.
2006-07 [Sophomore] Finished the season as IUPUI’s leader most major statistical categories -- points per game, rebounds per game, steals per game and field goal percentage ... Collected Mid-Continent Conference First Team honors as well as a Defensive Player of the Year selection ... Was named Mid-Con Player of the Week twice, on Dec. 19 and Feb. 6 ... Averaged 13.3 points and 9.8 rebounds per game in 30 starts for IUPUI ... Upped her play in conference action, posting 13.9 points and 10.0 rebounds per game ... Was one of two players to average a double-double in Mid-Con play ... Posted 13 double-doubles, second in the conference ... Scored in double-digits in 25 of her 30 games ... Led conference players in steals, averaging 2.60 per game ... Had 2.79 thefts in conference play ... Placed 30th in the NCAA in rebounding with her 9.8 rpg average ... Overall among Mid-Con players, ranked fifth in scoring (13.3 ppg), second in rebounding (9.8 rpg), ninth in field goal percentage (.437), ninth in assists (2.77 apg), first in steals (2.60 spg), second in offensive rebounding (3.50 orpg), second in defensive rebounding (6.27 drpg) and fourth in minutes (32.53 mpg) ... In conference play, ranked third in scoring (13.0 ppg), second in rebounding (10.0 rpg), fourth in field goal percentage (.497), tied for 10th in assists (2.79), first in steals (2.97 spg), first in offensive rebounding (4.07 orpg), second in defensive rebounding (5.93 drpg) and third in minutes played (32.79 mpg) ... Posted career highs throughout the season -- had 22 points on Jan. 29 at Centenary, 20 rebounds versus Oakland on Feb. 3, six steals three times ... 20 rebounds were the most in IUPUI women’s basketball history since moving to Division I and the most since Dec. 7, 1990, when Stephanie Dausch ripped down 25 ... Her 293 were the second-best single-season total in IUPUI history and the the best in the D-I era ... 529 career rebounds currently rank 14th in school history ... 9.3 rebounds per game average ranks fourth among players with two years of experience ... 125 steals are 18th among IUPUI women’s basketball players.
2005-06 [Freshman] Named to Mid-Continent Conference’s Preseason First Team entering the 2006-07 season ... Only non-senior on the first team ... Named the Mid-Continent Conference’s Sixth Woman of the Year ... Averaged 9.6 points and 8.7 rebounds off of the bench ... Rebounding average placed third in the Mid-Con ... 1.74 steals per game ranked third in the conference Named to Mid-Con’s All-Conference Second Team following season ... Only freshman named to team ... Scored career-high 21 points on Feb. 20 against Valparaiso ... Corralled 16 rebounds twice, versus Western Michigan on Dec. 31 and against Oakland on March 6 ... Had five offensive rebounds and 11 defensive boards in both contests.
HIGH SCHOOL: Named First Team All-State by The Associated Press her junior and senior years ... Finished as Center’s career scoring leader ... Averaged 16.5 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists as a senior ... Selected First Team All-Conference by the Small Six Suburban Conference each of her last three seasons ... Chosen First Team All-District by The Kansas City Star as a junior and senior ... Led team to a 40-20 record her final two years, including a 22-9 mark last season ... Her junior year the team finished fourth in the state in the Class 4A tournament.
PERSONAL: Full name is Jernisha D. Cann ... Born on August 14, 1986, in Kansas City, Mo. ... Daughter of Patricia Cann... Nickname is ‘J’ ... Has two older siblings -- a brother Jermont Cann, Sr. and a sister Jermonica ... Criminal Justice major ... Hobbies include drawing, watching TV, spending time with friends and talking to her family ... Chose IUPUI over Western Kentucky and UMKC.
|
Year
|
GP-GS
|
Min
|
Fg-A
|
Pct.
|
3Fg-A
|
Pct.
|
Ft-A
|
Pct.
|
Rpg
|
Pf-D
|
A
|
To
|
B
|
S
|
Pts
|
Ppg
|
|
2005-06
|
27-1
|
676
|
104-248
|
41.9
|
1-14
|
7.1
|
51-95
|
53.7
|
8.7
|
76-3
|
57
|
56
|
11
|
47
|
260
|
9.6
|
|
2006-07
|
30-30
|
976
|
173-396
|
43.7
|
3-21
|
14.3
|
50-81
|
61.7
|
9.8
|
93-5
|
83
|
106
|
13
|
78
|
399
|
13.3
|
| 2007-08 |
33-33 |
1185 |
171-396 |
43.2 |
0-4 |
00.0 |
77-139 |
55.4 |
9.9 |
109-2 |
103 |
116 |
15 |
101 |
419 |
12.0 |
|
Totals
|
90-64
|
2837
|
448-1040
|
43.1
|
4-39
|
10.3
|
178-315
|
56.5
|
9.5
|
278-10
|
243
|
278
|
39
|
229
|
1078
|
12.0
|
Statistics
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Historical Player Information
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2005-2006Freshman
Forward
5'11"
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2006-2007Sophomore
Forward
5'11"
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C
2007-2008Junior
Forward
5'10"
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C
2008-2009Senior
Forward
5'10"
