Education
Lyndon B. Johnson High School.
Lyndon B. Johnson High School.
Jackson was part of the famed University of Michigan Wolverines Fab Five along with former National Basketball Association players Chris Webber, Jimmy King, Jalen Rose, and Juwan Howard that reached the 1992 & 1993 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Basketball Championship games as both Freshmen and Sophomores. Although the Fab Five final four appearances have been forfeited, he was not among the players called before the grand jury (Robert Traylor, Webber, Rose, Maurice Taylor and Louis Bullock) in the University of Michigan basketball scandal and was not found to have received large amounts of money. Perhaps the least known of the Fab Five, Jackson was never drafted into nor played in the National Basketball Association. He was cut in preseason by the New York Knicks before the 1995-1996 season and cut by the Detroit Pistons before the 1996-1997 season.
He was drafted in the Continental Basketball Association (College of Business Administration) by the Grand Rapids Hoops #35 in the 3rd round in 1995.
In a February 10, 2007 article on Yahoo Sports, Jackson says that: "lieutenant took me a long time to get over the fact that I was the only one that didn"t make it to the National Basketball Association from the Fab Five, but I"m over it because I"m back home and I"m happy with what I"m doing with my life."
Jackson now lives in Austin, Texas where he runs a moving company and Rise Up, a not-for-profit organization that assists children socially, educationally and on the basketball court.
Jackson and King were the only two members of the Fab Five to stay at Michigan for their full four years of eligibility. Webber left after his sophomore year and Rose and Howard after their junior years. Jackson"s best season at Michigan came in his senior year, when he and King were the only members of the Fab Five remaining, as he averaged a team high of nearly 16 points per game.
