SAN ANTONIO – UTSA men's basketball standouts Jhivvan Jackson and Keaton Wallace were tabbed preseason All-Conference USA and Jackson was named the preseason C-USA Player of the Year in the annual Blue Ribbon Yearbook.
The Roadrunners were picked to finish second, behind Western Kentucky, in C-USA by the Blue Ribbon Yearbook, with Jackson and Wallace joining WKU's Charles Bassey, North Texas' Umoja Gibson and Louisiana Tech's DaQuan Bracey on the preseason all-conference team.
A native of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Jackson is coming off a sophomore season where he led C-USA in scoring, despite playing the first five games of his season on a minute restriction. Jackson averaged 22.9 points per game to rank 15th in the nation, earning first-team All-Conference USA honors, along with first-team USBWA and NABC All-District accolades. The 2017-18 C-USA Freshman of the Year, he totaled 23 games with at least 20 points, including a league-record 46 points at WKU a year ago.
Wallace, a native of Dallas, Texas, and a product of Richardson High School, had a breakout season in 2018-19 while forming half of the nation's highest scoring backcourt. Combined with Jackson's 22.9, Wallace averaged 20.2 points to give UTSA's guard duo the nation's highest backcourt scoring average of 43.1 points per game. Wallace averaged 5.0 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 1.3 steals and 0.7 blocks per game, while shattering the single-season school-record with 121 3-pointers. He ranked fifth in the nation in 3-pointers made and 45th in the NCAA in scoring average. Wallace, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound junior, had 16 games with at least 20 points, including a 45-point outburst in a win at Marshall in 2018-19. Wallace earned second-team All-Conference USA honors a year ago, in addition to first-team All-NABC All-District accolades.
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