Pain and limited mobility stemming from the recovery of a broken fibula in her left leg will cost Creighton senior guard Marissa Janning the remainder of the 2015-16 season. Because she will have only played in six games, she plans to submit a request for a medical redshirt from the NCAA that will allow her to return to Creighton and play one more year, the former Big East Player of the Year and her head coach Jim Flanery announced prior to Monday night’s practice at D.J. Sokol Arena.
Janning, a three-time first team all-conference selection (once in the Missouri Valley Conference and twice in the Big East), suffered the injury with a minute remaining in the fourth quarter of Creighton’s 66-60 overtime win over Eastern Washington — the team’s sixth game of the season — in the final contest of the Lone Star Showcase in Austin, Texas.