Two Texas Exes on WNBA Opening-Day Rosters

AUSTIN, Texas – A pair of former Texas women's basketball players are on the opening-day final 12-person rosters of WNBA teams, it was announced Friday afternoon.

Three-time Associated Press All-American Tiffany Jackson-Jones, who was the fifth overall pick of the 2007 WNBA Draft, will open her ninth WNBA season and her first as a member of the Los Angeles Sparks. Jackson-Jones holds career WNBA averages of 6.8 points per game, and 4.9 rebounds per game. She has played in 199 career regular-season WNBA games with 68 starts.

Jackson-Jones played in 123 career games at Texas with 103 starts. For the Longhorns from 2003-07 she averaged 15.6 points per game, 6.5 rebounds per game, 1.5 blocks per…