Eighth on the NJIT career list with 1,359 points (first 1,000-point scorer for NJIT to play his entire career in Division I) ... first name is pronounced ja-RELL … improved in nearly every phase from the beginning of his college career … can play either guard spot and rebounds the position well. …
2010-11: Second in scoring (13.2 ppg); second on the team in rebounding (4.8 rpg). His .466 field goal percentage was by far the best of his career, outstripping the .384 he shot as a junior. And the player who made just nine 3-pointers as a freshman, led this year’s team with 51 triples. He was third on the team with 66 assists and second in steals (29), receiving honorable mention all-Great West Conference
2009-10: All-Great West Conference 2nd team pick … All-GWC preseason 1st team … 10 pts, 8 rebs at South Dakota (3/7) …26 pts at Chicago State (3/6) … 26 pts (9-13 FG, 7-7 FT) at Utah Valley (3/4) …24 pts, 8 rebs, 6 assts vs. North Dakota (2/28) … 19 pts, 8 rebs vs South Dakota (2/25) … 19 pts at North Dakota (2/23) … 16 pts vs. Longwood (2/6) … 12 pts, 6 assts, 3 blks (career-high) vs. Utah Valley (1/30) … 23 pts (5-8 3-pt FG), 8 rebs vs. Chicago State (1/23) … tied NJIT DI records (since 2006-07) with 27 pts, 10 FG at Lehigh (1/2) … 18 pts at Rutgers (12/19) … 7 assists at Wagner (12/28) … 6 assists at Saint Peter’s (12/9) … 18 pts, 8 rebs vs Lafayette (11/21) … 20 pts, 9 rebs at Manhattan (11/14)
2008-09: Honorable Mention on the Division I all-Independent team ... led the team in points scored (353) and ppg (12.6) ... tied NJIT DI record with 10 FTM (11 FTA) at Houston Baptist (2/21) ...Great West Conference co-Player of the Week (1/25), njhoops.com Division I Player of the Month (from among eight schools, for January) … improved significantly in most important categories as a sophomore (7.1 ppg to 12.6 ppg; 2.9 rpg to 4.2 rpg; 26 steals to 41 steals) … tied for third on the team in rebounding (4.2 rpg), assists leader (67), free throws made leader (77), second in steals (41) … double-figure scorer in 11 of last 13 games, including career-high 26 points (done twice; first vs. Bryant to key NJIT’s win on 1/21; second vs. Chicago State on 2/14) … scored 23 at Houston Baptist (2/21) and 20 at Longwood (1/24) … averaged 16 ppg over final 13 games … double-double vs. Maryland Eastern Shore on 12/6, with 15 pts and career-high 10 rebounds … collected 8 rebounds each in games at Chicago State (1/31) and at Houston Baptist (2/21) … double-figure scorer in 18 of 27 games played overall … missed three games following a concussion and scored 14 in his first game back vs. Loyola (MD) on 1/14 … had at least one assist in every game but the opener. High was 7 assists vs. Maryland Eastern Shore on 1/28 and had 5 assists three times (vs. Wagner, 12/28; at Chicago State, 1/31; at UTPA, 2/23) … had three games with three steals.
2007-08: Honorable mention on the Division I All-Independent team after leading NJIT in assists and tying for 3rd in scoring (7.1 ppg) ... drew the lead man-to-man defensive assignment against Chicago State guard David Holston, who finished 10th nationally with better than 23 ppg, and helped limit the star to a combined 21 points (10.5 ppg on 6 and 15, respectively) in two meetings … scored a season-high 16 points against Army (12/6) and dished out a personal-best six assists at Chicago State (1/19) … scored 14 vs. Vermont (11/20); 13 against Longwood (2/18); 12 apiece against Penn (1/5) and Loyola, MD (1/29); and, 11 vs. Texas-Pan Am … Summer 2008: One of 10 named Star-Ledger College Summer League All-Star in the top college summer league in New Jersey.
Prior to NJIT: Senior captain for St. Benedict's Prep, located a couple of minutes drive from NJIT in Newark … the Grey Bees finished 2006-07 ranked 5th in the USA Today national Top 25. Benedict's, which finished 24-1, was ranked 2nd in the East by USA Today … playing in a star-studded lineup, averaged 6.7 ppg, with a high of 21 as a senior … playing for coach Danny Hurley, Wilson was a 4-year player on the varsity, during which time he teamed with at least 15 players who went on to compete in Division I basketball, plus JR Smith, who jumped directly from high school into the NBA ... NJHoops selected him as one of the top 50 seniors in the state prior to the 2006-07 season … high honor roll student.
Personal: Edward Jheryl Wilson ... son of Edward and Patricia Wilson. … Edward was Jheryl's AAU coach with the GYM (Gifted Young Minds) club ... resides in Irvington, NJ … communications major … born 7/19/89 in Newark.
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Wilson's Game-by-Game Stats
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