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Jeryl Sasser
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Position: Shooting Guard
College: SMU
Conference: WAC
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 200
Age: 21
Birthdate: 02/13/79
High School: Kimball (TX)
*Early entry
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| Career Statistics |
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| Seasons |
G |
FGs |
PCT |
3-pts |
PCT |
FTs |
PCT |
RPG |
APG |
BLK |
STL |
PTS |
AVE |
'97-98
'98-99
'99-00
Totals
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28
30
30
88
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135-346
188-455
181-479
504-1280
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.390
.413
.378
.394
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28-107
33-113
37-133
98-353
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.262
.292
.278
.278
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122-170
153-212
119-175
394-557
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.718
.722
.680
.707
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8.3
8.5
8.3
8.3
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3.7
3.5
4.6
3.9
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15
21
15
51
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42
60
54
156
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420
562
518
1500
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15.0
18.7
17.3
17.1
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Junior Season
Named first team All-WAC
Led team in scoring, assists and and minutes
His 1,500 points in seventh all-time in school history
Had a streak of five straight double-doubles to start the season
Recorded a triple-double against Lamar (16-10-10)…it was the fourth triple-double in school history
Sophomore Season
1999 WAC Mountain Division Player of the Year, becoming only the second sophomore to earn that award (Keith Van Horn is the other)
Seventh-highest scoring sophomore in the nation
Earned an invitation to the '99 USA Men's Basketball Team National Trials
Freshman Season
1998 WAC Pacific Division Freshman of the Year…it was the second straight season in which a Mustang was named the conference's POY (Stephen Woods won it in '97). Sasser and Woods become just the second guard tandem in NCAA history to earn their league's Freshman of the Year Award in consecutive seasons (Mark Price and Bruce Dalrymple won it in '83 and '84)
Became the first freshman to lead SMU in rebounding since Jon Koncak in '81-82)
Notables
His older brother, Jason, was a two-time Southwest Conference Player of the Year for Texas Tech.
Jeryl originally wanted to wear No. 33 in HS, but the number was already retired in honor of Jason
Jeryl's No. 5 has since been retired at Kimball HS
His father, Jeryl, played basketball at Noth Texas and his grandfather, John Barber, played with the Harlem Globetrotters and with the St. Louis Hawks during the '56-57 season
SMU has not had a player drafted since Terry Williams was a fifth-round pick of GS in '87 and their last number one pick was Jon Koncak in '85 (5th-Atl)
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