The last time Bianca Jackson played a basketball game at Dunn-Oliver Acadome in Montgomery, there was plenty of hype, but not much payoff.
As a senior in high school, the soon-to-be South Carolina guard was playing in the annual Alabama-Mississippi All-Star game, and doing so on the floor of the arena where her mother, Freda Freeman-Jackson, and father, Lewis Jackson, coached the women’s and men’s teams for Alabama State.
The hometown star, Jackson had plenty of fans in the building for the game, her final farewell before leaving for the Gamecocks. But she scored just three points, shooting 1-for-8 from the field.