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2018-19 Men's Basketball Roster

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10 Jonathan Sanks

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 205
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Warner Robins, Ga.
  • High School Berkmar
  • Prev School Spartanburg Methodist

Biography

CAREER HIGHS
Points: 17 at Rider (2/8/19)

Rebounds: 5 (4x), last vs. Siena (3/1/19)
Assists: 4 at Iona (2/24/19)
2018-19 • SENIOR SEASON
Game-by-Game Statistics
Played in 32 games and made 12 starts.
• Averaged 7.4 points and 2.4 rebounds per game in his senior campaign.
• Started the last 12 games of the season where he averaged 8.8 points per game.
• Scored a career-high 17 points, highlighted by the game-winning 3-point field goal with 7.9 seconds left, as the Griffs went on the road and beat Rider Feb. 8.
• Ranked second on the team with 49 3-point field goals. Seventy-five percent of his career 3-point field goals came against MAAC opponents.
• Scored in double-figures 11 times and made multiple 3-point field goals in a game 15 times in his senior year.
• Made a career-high five 3-pointers in the road win at Rider Feb. 8.
• Matched a career-high with five rebounds three times.
• Dished out a career-best four assists in the team's road loss to Iona Feb. 24.
• Had a career-high three steals in two different contests.
• Shot 37.9 percent (78-for-208) from the field and 66.0 percent (31-for-47) from the free-throw line.
• Averaged 22.3 minutes per game. Played a career-high 40 minutes in the team's MAAC quarterfinal round win over Manhattan March 8.

2017-18 • JUNIOR SEASON
Game-by-Game Statistics
Played in 31 games in his first season with the program.
• Averaged 5.5 points and 1.5 rebounds per game.
• Scored a season-high 14 points in three different games.
• Grabbed a
career-best five rebounds in a home win over Saint Peter's Jan. 12.
• Shot 40.7 percent (57-for-140) from the floor and 41.1 percent (37-for-90) from 3-point range.
• Ranked 10th in the MAAC in 3-point field goal percentage.
• Of his 37 makes from 3-point land for the season, 32 came in MAAC games.
• Connected on a season-high four makes from behind the arc in the team's road win at Saint Peter's Feb. 4.
• Made multiple 3-point field goals in 11 games.
• Dished out a career-high three assists on three different occasions.
• Played a career-high 26 minutes off the bench in the Griffs' home win over Iona Dec. 31.

BEFORE CANISIUS
Spent the 2016-17 season at Spartanburg Methodist Junior College in Spartanburg, S.C.
• Averaged 14.4 points per game and shot a team best 44.9 percent from 3-point land.
• Played in 33 games for the Pioneers, where he made 28 starts.
• Originally signed his NLI out of high school to play at Georgia Southern.
• After taking a redshirt in 2014-15, he played 19 games for the Eagles in 2015-16.
• Earned four varsity letters in basketball at Berkmar High School in Georgia. Averaged 13,0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game in his senior season.
PERSONAL
The son of Jonathan Sanks and Shana Carter.
• Majoring in psychology.

• Born Dec. 9, 1996, in Warner Robins, Ga.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2017-18Junior

    Guard
    6'4" 205 lbs
    3
  • 10

    2018-19Senior

    Guard
    6'4" 205 lbs
    10