SAN ANTONIO – After leading Conference USA with 22.9 points per game, UTSA sophomore guard Jhivvan Jackson has become just the fourth player in program history to win a league scoring title.
A native of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Jackson averaged 22.9 points per game in 2018-19, ranking ahead of Charlotte senior guard Jon Davis (21.7 ppg). It marks the sixth time a UTSA player has won a league scoring title and the first since LeRoy Hurd led the Southland Conference with 19.4 points per game in 2003-04.
Jackson, a six-foot product of Euless-Trinity High School in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, finished the year ranked 15th in the NCAA in points per game, with his total the third-best in UTSA single-season history and the highest since Derrick Gervin averaged a record 25.6 points per game in 1984-85. Jackson was named to the All-Conference USA first team by the league media and coaches and also earned United States Basketball Writers Association All-District honors.
He had 23 games with at least 20 points – the second most in school history – despite playing on a minute restriction in his first five games and only making 24 starts. Jackson, the 2017-18 C-USA Freshman of the Year, suffered a season-ending injury in February of 2017 and he missed the first three games while recovering from the injury. He returned to play 18.4 minutes per outing over his next five games before making the final 24 starts of 2018-19. As a starter, Jackson averaged 24.1 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game.
Jackson poured in the second-most 3-pointers in a single-season in program history, just shy of the mark set by his sophomore running mate Keaton Wallace. Wallace averaged 20.2 points and 5.0 rebounds per game to help form the nation's highest scoring backcourt with Jackson. The pair rank as the NCAA's fourth-highest scoring duo, averaging 43.1 points per game, the highest total for any duo in UTSA history.
He had a bevy of highlight moments in 2018-19, including setting the C-USA single-game scoring mark with 46 points at Western Kentucky, the third-most in a single-game in program history.
In his career, Jackson ranks third in school history with 20.6 points per game. He ranks fourth in UTSA history in career 3-pointers, third in free-throw percentage (80.6) and ninth in scoring (1,197).
UTSA CONFERENCE SCORING TITLE CHAMPS (PPG), YEAR [LEAGUE]
- Jhivvan Jackson (22.9), 2018-19 [C-USA]
- LeRoy Hurd (19.4), 2003-04 [Southland]
- LeRoy Hurd (17.6), 2002-03 [Southland]
- McEverett Powers (18.8), 2001-02 [Southland]
- Ronnie Ellison (20.6), 1991-91 [Trans-America]
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